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Another "Distinguished Senior Researcher" at Empa

Distinction for one who is looking upwards

Oct 20, 2020 | The atmospheric scientist Dominik Brunner became the 5th Empa scientist to be appointed "Distinguished Senior Researcher". With this distinction, Empa's Board of Directors honors researchers with a particularly high international reputation.
Podcast from the NEST (in German)

Peter Richner in conversation with visionaries

Oct 8, 2020 | In the NEST Podcast, Peter Richner, Deputy Director of Empa, meets interesting guests from politics, engineering sciences and architecture to discuss innovations in the building industry and its future. The guest of the current episode is Fabio Grama...
The new Hyperloop Pod "Simona de Silvestro"

Hyperloop innovations even without Elon Musk

Oct 5, 2020 | From 2017 to 2019, Tesla founder Elon Musk organized the annual Hyperloop competition, in which Swissloop with students from ETH Zurich had participated every year thus far. After it was clear that this year's competition would not take place, the Sw...
Mit vereinten Kräften für sichere Masken

Projekt ReMask

The current issue of Empa Quarterly presents fresh ideas from Empa's labs, which, with their innovative power, can help successfully overcome these turbulent times – from new fabrication methods such as alloys created during the manufacturing process to electronics from the printer. Read the latest issue online.

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