News and Events

Astrid Stubbusch, former doctoral researcher affiliated with the institute, has been awarded the Prix Schläfli 2026 in Biology by the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT).

On 10 April 2026, more than 100 participants came together at ETH Zurich for the annual IBP PhD Congress, a day dedicated to sharing research, exchanging ideas and connecting across disciplines.

A new article, published in Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts, presents fascinating results collected during a field study in the German Wadden Sea, demonstrating the effect of sulfide on Fe mineral transformations in coastal sediments.

A new publication in EGUsphere takes a deeper look at carbon dynamics in minerogenic salt marshes, with field work undertaken in the German Wadden Sea. The work was a collaboration with the University of Tübingen, which was undertaken as part of the ERC “Iron Minerals Dynamics in Soils and Sediments” project.

Katrin Schiedung has been awarded the Fritz-Scheffer-Award by the German Soil Science Society in recognition of her excellent doctoral thesis

The ERC “Iron Mineral Dynamics in Soils and Sediments” project, which ran in the Soil Chemistry group from 2018 – 2024, produced major advances in iron biogeochemical research, and could influence research methods in research disciplines beyond soil science. We offer some perspectives on the outcomes of the project in this contribution for the American Geophysical Union’s Eos magazine.

At the request of ETH President Joël Mesot, the ETH Board awarded the title of professor to Oliver Fuhrer and Thomas Hofstetter at its meeting on May 21 and 22, 2025. Congratulations!

Marjana Yeasmin has joined us in the Soil Chemistry group for the next month from RMIT University, Melbourne.

Our short film about the ERC IRMIDYN project has been selected to be shown at the Spotlight on Academics Science Film Festival 2025. The showing will happen on site and online on Saturday the 8th of March.