Dec 21, 2017 | Tanja Zimmermann joins Empa senior management
Tanja Zimmermann joined Empa’s Board of Directors in September. She runs the new Functional Materials department – another step up in a successful career that began in Empa’s Wood lab. Thanks to her inquisitiveness,...
Dec 18, 2017 | Bernd Nowack among the most highly cited researchers
Accolade for the Empa environmental scientist Bernd Nowak: for the fourth time in a row, he is part of the "Highly Cited Researchers" list. His publications thus belong to the 1% most highly cited papers worldwide in the...
Dec 15, 2017 | NEST at Swissbau 2018
For the very first time, the "Innovation Lab", a special exhibition for digital transformations in the construction industry, will be held at Swissbau 2018 from 16 to 20 January. NEST, the modular research and...
Dec 11, 2017 | Empa's youngest scientific co-author
What started out as a two-week internship at Empa culminated in the GENIUS Olympiad in the US for Luca Schaufelberger: as the winner of the national competition “Swiss Youth in Science”, he represented Switzerland at the...
Dec 7, 2017 | Carbosense 4D
Switzerland is to gain a dense, globally unique atmospheric CO2 measuring network: 300 sensors will permanently collect up-to-date readings, to provide near-real time information on man-made emissions and CO2 uptake by...
Dec 6, 2017 | Ruzicka Prize 2017 for Maria Ibáñez
Empa researcher Maria Ibáñez was awarded the annual Ruzicka Prize by ETH Zurich. This makes it the second Empa researcher to join the long list of prize-winners dating back to 1957.
Dec 5, 2017 | Microwaves against cold-start emissions
During cold-start, a car engine emits far more particulate matter and other pollutants than during warm conditions. This is because a cold catalytic converter is much less efficient at low exhaust gas temperatures. So...
Nov 30, 2017 | Construction start at "Urban Mining & Recycling" Unit
One working day, two cranes and a well attuned team: on 21 November 2017, the woodworkers from the Austrian company Kaufmann Zimmerei und Tischlerei placed the seven prefabricated modules of the new "Urban Mining &...