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Barbora Trubenová’s interest in drug resistance is driven by her fascination with evolutionary processes and the critical need to understand how organisms adapt to survive. As an newly appointed Assistant Professor of Pathogen Evolution at D-USYS and Eawag, she investigates how bacteria, fungi and parasitic worms develop resistance to drugs.

For his excellent teaching, Achim Walter has been awarded the Golden Owl by ETH Zurich’s students association VSETH.  

The oceans were less cold in the early 20th century (1900–1930) than previously thought. During this period the ocean appears too cold due to the way some measurements were taken. However, the new findings do not affect the quantification of the global warming relative to 1850-1900 and the human contribution to that warming, stress climate researchers around Sebastian Sippel (Leipzig University) and Reto Knutti from ETH Zurich.

It's almost a tradition: Erich Fischer, Nicolas Gruber, Reto Knutti, Sonia Seneviratne and Johan Six are once again among this year's "Highly Cited Researchers". Congratulations to the award-winning researchers! 

Tropical cyclones (TCs) displace millions of people every year. Knowing what TCs might do helps us prepare better. Pui Man Kam and colleagues at ETH Zurich have created a global, open-source system to forecast how many people will be displaced by tropical cyclones.