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João P. Leitão develops innovative urban water management solutions to help cities tackle the challenges posed by climate change. Increasing temperatures and more frequent extreme weather events present major challenges to urban infrastructure. On the occasion of his appointment as Adjunct Professor, we asked what currently drives him in research and teaching.

ESD Professor Stephan Pfister and PhD Student Shuntian Wang contributed to a news article by SRF about the CO2 emissions imported to Switzerland. While official territorial emissions in Switzerland are falling, the picture looks different, when supply chains are taken into account: Then, Switzerland has one of the highest climate impacts per capita.  

At the meeting on 5 and 6 March 2025, the ETH Board appointed numerous professors at the request of ETH President Joël Mesot, including Paola Passalacqua for the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. She succeeds Professor Paolo Burlando, who will retire at the end of July 2025.

Joaquin Jiménez-Martínez combines experimental work with advanced modeling to explore how water moves and interacts with its environment. With expertise spanning from micrometer-scale pore processes to field-scale hydrology, his research is dedicated to understanding and protecting our underground reservoirs. On the occasion of his appointment as Adjunct Professor, we asked what currently drives him in research and teaching.