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D-BAUG Research Day 2025: From Micro to Macro

On 7 October 2025, the Association of Scientific Staff at D-BAUG invites all students, researchers and professors to the department’s annual “Meet & Share” event. This year’s theme will be “From Micro to Macro”, highlighting the variety of scales that researchers at our department work on – from the smallest processes to large-scale systems. Doctoral candidates and researchers from all institutes will present selected case studies. Join us for an afternoon of exchange, insight and inspiration!
Junyang at MIT

From September 2025 to January 2026, Junyang is joining the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) at MIT as a visiting PhD student.
Geomatics seminar with Hilary Martens

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Hilary Martens will give a talk at ETH Hönggerberg on September 26th at 11 a.m.
IAG2025 in Rimini – A Week of Science and Collaboration

Eight members of Space Geodesy group attended the IAG General Assembly 2025 in Rimini, held during the first week of September from
1–5 Sep 2025.
Welcome Adam!

We are happy to announce that Adam Cegla joined the Space Geodesy group as a new PostDoc.
Retreat & Summer Trip 2025

From the 8th to the 10th of September, we held our annual retreat at two inspiring locations: the Hotel Uto Kulm on Uetliberg and the charming Villa Sunneschy in Stäfa by Lake Zurich.
New publication by Zhang et al. (2025)

"Assimilating Ground-Based and High-Dynamic Airborne GNSS Zenith Total Delays Into Numerical Weather Predictions" by Zhang et al. (2025)
New project: GNSS fraud detection with AI and community support

Together with onocoy and the European Space Agency (ESA), we're starting a new project to detect and prevent GNSS fraud using AI technology and contributions from the community.
ETH Medal Awarded to Mostafa Kiani Shahvandi for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis

Mostafa Kiani Shahvandi has been awarded the ETH Zurich Silver Medal for his outstanding doctoral thesis titled "Geodetic Time Series Analysis and Prediction Using Machine Learning" (supervised by Prof. Benedikt Soja).
Awards for excellent doctoral theses

This year, six doctoral students from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering are honoured for their outstanding achievements: four of them receive ETH medals, two the Culmann Prize. Big congrats!