The Department
The Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS) at ETH Zurich conducts research and offers courses on the condition and function of environmental systems. It develops solutions and methods for managing these systems sustainably.
The department's core activities include analysing environmental systems and their relevance to society, as well as training the next generation of scientists and decision-makers in academia, industry, and politics. Both Environmental Sciences and Agricultural Sciences are offered, each with a Bachelor's and Master's degree programme.
The multidisciplinary cooperation of scientists makes it possible to understand individual processes of different environmental systems: from microscopic scales to whole ecosystems.
The five main research areas focus on scientific activities across the department's institutes: Climate Change, Food Security, Sustainable Resource Use, Biological Diversity and Adaptation and Ecosystem Processes and Services.