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For the past four years, we have featured conversations with experts on current research topics in the ETH podcast. At the moment the podcast is taking an indefinite break. Until we launch a new podcast format, 43 exciting episodes are available for you to listen to. The alumni podcast "We Are ETH", a podcast series featuring stories from alumni and friends of ETH Zurich moved to its own channel: https://circle.ethz.ch/podcast/ -- ETH Zurich – Where the future begins! Our university for science and technology dates back to the year 1855, when the founders of modern-day Switzerland created it as a centre of innovation and knowledge. At ETH Zurich, students discover an ideal environment for independent thinking, researchers a climate which inspires top performance. Situated in the heart of Europe, yet forging connections all over the world, ETH Zurich is pioneering effective solutions to the global challenges of today and tomorrow. ETH Zurich has an excellent reputation in scientific circles: 21 Nobel laureates have studied, taught or researched here, and ETH regularly ranks as one of the world’s top universities.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best ETH Podcast episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to ETH Podcast for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite ETH Podcast episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

ETH Podcast - #COVID–19: Interdisciplinarity is key
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05/05/20 • 11 min

Interview with Detlef Günther, Vice President for Research at ETH Zurich

The coronavirus pandemic forced ETH Zurich to suspend almost all its experimental research in mid-March. This was a major challenge, especially for Detlef Günther, ETH’s Vice President for Research. "But now I see a little more light at the end of the tunnel," he says in the podcast. After all, experimental research is now being stepped up again, albeit with restrictions, as the strict rules on physical distancing and hygiene still apply. Full occupancy is therefore not possible in many laboratories. Despite the adverse circumstances, Günther also sees some positive consequences of the pandemic: it has brought together many disciplines that were previously not connected with each other. His hope is "If we preserve just 20 percent of this mentality, we will definitely bring ETH much further forward in solving future challenges".

The podcast episode with Detlef Günther concludes ETH’s #COVID-19 special series. Of course, the coronavirus will keep the world busy for some time yet and the topic will certainly play a role in upcoming podcast episodes. However, it's also time for the ETH Podcast to find its way back to a normality where different topics have their place and are explored again in more detail.

ETH Podcasts are roduced by This Wachter's Audio Story Lab and Jennifer Khakshouri. Music, Sound Design and Mastering by Luki Fretz.

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ETH Podcast - Jennifer Giroux

Jennifer Giroux

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02/11/22 • 22 min

Episode 2

Jennifer’s story is one of coming full circle. Originally from Detroit and having recently moved back there, Jennifer explains how her serendipitous path and global living experiences built on each other: From Detroit to Colorado to study anthropology; to Senegal and Ghana in order to see this work on the ground; to New York and living through 9/11, creating a need to focus on understanding terrorism and crisis, which took her to California for further studies; to Switzerland in order to go deeper in this field at the ETH Zurich Center for Security Studies; and back to the US.

Back to Detroit in fact, to be a part of a new community that looks to create spaces and rebuild the city in a new light, based to a large extent on the theoretical background and principles from her work at ETH. “ETH gave me a canvas, and they gave me the best paints in the world. And they said: “paint what you want.” And as a creative, in terms of thinking, writing, seeing, interpreting, analyzing, it gave me this license to dance across a couple of different domains that were all about our environment, and our interplay with our environment.”

In our second episode, Susan talks to Jennifer Giroux dialing in from Detroit, USA, about connecting the dots that led her back to her hometown, via ETH Zurich and beyond. Jennifer is a social research and strategy consultant focusing on the social impact space. She spent seven years at the ETH Zurich Center for Security Studies. She is an active member of the ETH Circle.

Please find more information on the ETH Circle network here.

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ETH Podcast - Jeannine Pilloud

Jeannine Pilloud

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01/21/22 • 22 min

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ETH Zurich was not Jeannine's first choice for a place of study, but she made the switch because she was looking for more opportunities to apply her creative side. “At ETH, you learn that it is entirely up to you what you want to make out of your university experience. ETH gives you a lot of freedom in how you can achieve your goals.”

This was exactly the foundation she needed, as it gave her the freedom to develop both her skills and personality. "We are not machines. Students are all individuals, and they need the liberty to find which way they want to go," says Jeannine.

In the first episode of our alumni podcast series "We are ETH", Susan meets Jeannine Pilloud, the CEO of Ascom Holding AG. You can read Jeannine's ETH Circle portrait here: https://circle.ethz.ch/member/jeannine-pilloud/.

Listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange in Zurich, Ascom is a global telecommunications company focusing on wireless on-site communications. Jeannine is its CEO since 2019. Previously, she notably held positions at IBM and SBB, the Swiss Federal Railways. After first studying German, history, and journalism at the University of Zurich, she went on to complete a degree in architecture at ETH Zurich. She was recently appointed to the Board of the ETH Alumni Association. This is her story.

Please find more information on the ETH Circle network here.

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ETH Podcast - ETH4D tackles poverty
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09/28/20 • 32 min

How future leaders in the field of sustainable development are mastering global challenges

The initiative ETH for Development (ETH4D) wants to tackle poverty not by “saving” people from a bad situation but by improving certain circumstances, such as access to off-grid electricity. The Executive Director of ETH4D, Adina Rom, and Ph.D. student Churchill Agutu are guests of the ETH-Podcast and talk about how research and practice can make a difference in fighting poverty.

More information on ETH for Development: https://eth4d.ethz.ch/

Africa Green Collar podcast: https://www.greencollarafrica.org/podcasts

ETH Podcasts are roduced by This Wachter's Audio Story Lab and Jennifer Khakshouri. Music, Sound Design and Mastering by Luki Fretz.

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ETH Podcast - Can AI help tackle climate change?
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05/20/20 • 35 min

Lynn Kaack and David Dao on how to stop the global warming

Can AI tackle climate change?

Climate change hasn’t been hitting the headlines quite as much in recent months – but that’s not because the situation has improved. ETH Zurich researchers Lynn Kaack and David Dao spoke to the ETH Podcast back in March about how we can use AI to help in the fight against climate change.

This episode of the ETH podcast is about Lynn Kaack’s and David Dao’s work on the energy transition and forests, their work with the organisation Climate Change AI, and their take on research, activism and policy.

We pushed back the podcast that had been produced before the lockdown due to our special series on COVID-​19 and it has now been supplemented with current statements from the two researchers. Because we wanted to know what had changed for them.

More on The Energy Politics Group: https://epg.ethz.ch/

Please also read the article "Artificial intelligence can help combat climate change": https://inf.ethz.ch/news-and-events/spotlights/2020/01/interview_david_dao.html

More on the International Conference on Learning Representations: https://iclr.cc/Conferences/2020/Schedule?q=kaack

ETH Podcasts are roduced by This Wachter's Audio Story Lab and Jennifer Khakshouri. Music, Sound Design and Mastering by Luki Fretz.

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ETH Podcast - #COVID–19: To trace or not to trace
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04/21/20 • 10 min

Contact tracing and respecting privacy

Various contact-tracing apps are currently being developed worldwide to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Apps are seen as a necessary tool in the battle to contain coronavirus infections, but they also raise many ethical questions – not least of which is how to implement digital contact tracing in accordance with data protection. Effy Vayena, Professor of Bioethics, nevertheless remains optimistic that digital technologies can help reduce the speed at which the virus spreads. "We are currently dealing with a variety of technologies that are able to protect our privacy while still serving their purpose," she says.

https://itm.ethz.ch/research/bioethics-and-politics.html

ETH Podcasts are roduced by This Wachter's Audio Story Lab and Jennifer Khakshouri. Music, Sound Design and Mastering by Luki Fretz.

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ETH Podcast - #COVID–19: Speed of spread
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04/16/20 • 8 min

The genome of the virus is the key

Tanja Stadler has been in the Swiss media quite a lot lately. As an Associate Professor in the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, she knows how to interpret data regarding the spread of the virus. On the ETH Podcast she explains how characterising the genomes of virus samples taken from different infected patients gives her insight into how fast the virus spreads. The data she is using comes from many nations around the globe. “It is remarkable how willingly researchers and authorities are sharing their data during this crisis,” she says.

https://bsse.ethz.ch/

Please also feel free to read the following articles:

Calculating the beginnings of the Coronavirus epidemic

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2020/02/the-beginnings-of-the-coronavirus-epidemic.html

Measures have an impact

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2020/04/corona-measures-having-an-impact.html

ETH Podcasts are roduced by This Wachter's Audio Story Lab and Jennifer Khakshouri. Music, Sound Design and Mastering by Luki Fretz.

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Shifting from economic forecasting to scenario planning

The current situation presents an enormous challenge for economists like Jan-Egbert Sturm. The director of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute and his counterparts around the world are shifting from economic forecasting to scenario planning in a time of unprecedented change. “We are confronted with a situation where we can’t wait for a quarter to end. We have to work with weekly or even daily data,” says Sturm.

For more information please also visit "Ask the expert": https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2020/04/sturm-on-the-corona-crisis.html

KOF Swiss Economic Institute: https://kof.ethz.ch/en

Produced by This Wachter's Audio Story Lab and Jennifer Khakshouri. Music, Sound Design and Mastering by Luki Fretz.

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ETH Podcast - #COVID–19: Singapore during the pandemic
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04/09/20 • 10 min

How a megacity became a giant research lab

Singapore is situated in Southeast Asia and has a strong connection to China. Nevertheless, the coronavirus epidemic in Singapore has been much weaker than in Europe so far. Gerhard Schmitt, Professor of Information Architecture and Director of the Singapore–ETH Centre, tells the ETH Podcast how the strong measures against COVID-19 have changed the city, which usually suffers under self-generated heat. Right now, air and street traffic have almost disappeared: “It’s as if a simulation has become reality.” This situation offers unique opportunities for Schmitt’s research.

Produced by This Wachter's Audio Story Lab and Jennifer Khakshouri. Music, Sound Design and Mastering by Luki Fretz.

https://sec.ethz.ch/

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ETH Podcast - New ETH podcast

New ETH podcast

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11/29/18 • 1 min

Launch on 6 December 2018

On Thursday, 6 December 2018, we will start with our new ETH Podcast. www.ethz.ch/podcast

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FAQ

How many episodes does ETH Podcast have?

ETH Podcast currently has 69 episodes available.

What topics does ETH Podcast cover?

The podcast is about University, Knowledge, Research, Podcasts, Technology, Science and Innovation.

What is the most popular episode on ETH Podcast?

The episode title 'How Machine Learning can help in medicine' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on ETH Podcast?

The average episode length on ETH Podcast is 20 minutes.

How often are episodes of ETH Podcast released?

Episodes of ETH Podcast are typically released every 21 days.

When was the first episode of ETH Podcast?

The first episode of ETH Podcast was released on Nov 29, 2018.

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