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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episode 42: Science and Politics
Independent task force with new leader
In this episode, Martin Ackermann and Tanja Stadler, both professors at ETH Zurich, talk about what the pandemic taught them about the intersection of science and politics, how they cope with being people of public interest, and also about how they hope the task force will become redundant in the future, even though the virus remains.
A transcript of this podcast is available on the ETH podcast websites.
More on the work of Martin Ackermann to be found here and that of Tanja Stadler here.ETH Podcasts are produced by This Wachter's Audio Story Lab and Jennifer Khakshouri. Music, Sound Design and Mastering by Luki Fretz.