Earth and Planetary Sciences at ETH Zurich

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Astronomy on Tap Zurich is back with "Robot Landings and Exploring the Solar System". 📅 When: 28 October 2026, 18.30 📍 Where: The Alehouse, Universitätstrasse 23, Zurich 🎙️ Speakers: Jody Dawson and Elena Krasnova 🎟 Free entry! Be sure to get a free ticket! www.eventbrite.com/e/robot-land...

Die Crew steht bereit, die Plätze sind jedoch begrenzt: Heute um 12.00 Uhr öffnet bei wow² Space an der ETH Zürich das Boarding für die Kinderworkshops (31. Okt. & 1. Nov. 2026). Erfahrungsgemäss sind die Plätze schnell vergeben, also nicht zu lange warten! @ethz.ch @eth-eaps.bsky.social

From a dream deferred to designing ETH Zurich's Space Systems degree programme, Simon Stähler shares a personal reflection on chance, discovery, and contributing to the future of space exploration. @ethz.ch @eth-eaps.bsky.social

The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at ETH Zurich invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Earth and Planetary Evolution. ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z... Please apply online. The closing date for applications is 15 December 2026.

We are looking for a new PhD student to join our group in 2027! Interested in all the ways that oxidized nitrogen cycles in the atmosphere and affects air quality and climate? So are we! Details and link to apply are here: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at ETH Zurich invites applications for the position of Professor or Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Critical Mineral Resources. ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z... Please apply online. The closing date for applications is 31 October 2026.

Another Mars-related paper out in JGR: Planets from @agu.org ! What if chlorate, rather than oxygen, drove oxidative weathering on early Mars? Our reactive transport model suggests it can reproduce the widespread clay stratigraphy we observe today. doi.org/10.1029/2025... @eth-eaps.bsky.social

The research publication "Global Circulation of Martian Ionospheric Currents Revealed by Magnetometer Data" by Timothée Delcourt and Anna Mittelholz was featured as Editor's Highlight in @eos.org, the science news magazine by @agu.org. Congratulations! eos.org/editor-highl...

Many congratulations to Francesca Miozzi on receiving the Europlanet Early Career Medal 2026 in recognition of her pioneering experimental work on the interiors of rocky planets and exoplanets. www.europlanet.org/europlanet-e...

From 3D printer to #rockavalanche: Researchers from #SLF and #ETH are using an accurate #3D model of the area around #Blatten to investigate what happens when #water, #ice and more thunder down into a valley. More: www.slf.ch/en/news/3d-p... 📹 R. Oester / SLF #CERC

The NOMIS–ETH Fellowship Programme by @copl-eth.bsky.social and the NOMIS Foundation supports exceptional early-career researchers in conducting independent, interdisciplinary projects on the origin and prevalence of life. The call for applications is now open! www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/11872

The Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research "NCCR Genesis" is looking for a Postdoc in modelling of early prokaryote evolution and interaction with earth geodynamics to work at the interface of evolutionary biology, earth system science, and planetary habitability. #postdoc #jobalert

A paper that shaped my career📰 In our new blog post, Prof. Tim Eglinton from ETH Zürich tells us how the rise of compound specific isotope analysis changed his research trajectory. blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg... @ethz.ch @eth-eaps.bsky.social @egu.eu #biogeosciences #EGU

The Engineering Geology group at ETH Zurich is looking for doctoral student in debris flow monitoring with focus on deriving velocity and flow depth estimates at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolutions by analysing point cloud and camera data. #phd #jobalert www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/12038

We have a new paper out in GRL 📣 We show that chlorate can oxidize aqueous sulfide to form elemental sulfur under low temperature, acidic conditions- highlighting a possible pathway for the native sulfur recently discovered by Curiosity in Gale Crater! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

That's awesome thanks a lot! But you forgot us 😭 at the BedrettoLab (eos.org/editor-highl...). We are 1485 m above sea level, 0 to 1.5 km overburdened below Pizzo Rotondo (Switzerland)...

A rare meteorite, recovered within minutes of its fall, has revealed that salty, mineral-rich fluids once circulated inside a primitive asteroid. Researchers at ETH Zurich helped reconstruct the rock's journey through space. eaps.ethz.ch/en/news/arch...

Read about the "devil worm" living in the deep Earth and why Cara Magnabosco, Professor of Geobiology at ETH Zurich, et al, have estimated that microbes of the deep biosphere make up a considerable chunk of life on our planet, accounting for 12 to 20% of the total biomass of Earth's microbes.

Congratulations to @chiara-sabelli.bsky.social, who was selected as one of ten fellows for the final round of the FRONTIERS Science Journalism Residency Programme. She will join the department for her journalistic project "To understand earthquakes, scientists are learning how to trigger them."

The Experimental Planetology group at ETH Zurich is looking for a doctoral student to research the geochemistry of Archean komatiites and their role in modulating the surface- and atmosphere of the early Earth. This position is part of NCCR Genesis. #phd #jobalert

Neue Erkenntnisse zur #Venus: Der Schwesterplanet der Erde ist tektonisch aktiv 🪐✨ Forschungsteam um Erstautor Xi Yang und Prof. Dr. Taras Gerya (@ethz.ch) sowie Prof. Dr. Anna Gülcher (#unifreiburg) zeigt mithilfe eines neuen 3D-Computermodells Hinweise auf jüngere Grabenbrüche. ➡️ ufr.link/venus

New simulations of the rift valley systems on Venus indicate that they are still geologically active rather than being mere relics of a bygone era, as was previously believed. These new findings could help to identify geologically active regions on the planet.

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AI models are playing an increasingly important role in weather forecasting and the early detection of natural hazards. Training these models requires vast amounts of climate and Earth observation data. ETH Zurich is therefore centralising data for the research of tomorrow.

Die Forschungsgruppe Risikokommunikation beim Schweizerischen Erdbebendienst der ETH Zürich sucht eine Doktorand:in um die Frage zu beantworten, wie man Bevölkerung, Behörden und Einsatzorganisationen nach einem Erdbeben über die Wahrscheinlichkeit weiterer Erschütterungen informiert. #phd #jobalert

The newly established research group Geomitigation of Greenhouse Gases by @nicolefernandez.bsky.social at ETH Zurich is looking for a doctoral student to work at the intersection of low temperature experimental geochemistry, cryosphere science, and planetary surface processes. #phd #jobalert

Unterwegs in Blatten. Ein Portrait über mich, die Liebe zu den Bergen, den Umgang mit Risiken, und die Überzeugung, dass positive Narrative, Lösungen und ein politischer Rahmen zwingend sind. www.3sat.de/wissen/scien...

🚨paper alert!🚨 Thrilled to share our work, led by @climategordon.bsky.social, on terrestrial OC burial during the PETM, which was likely much higher then previously thought. Implications for C-cycle responses to hothouse climates! @natgeosci.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Once more, because glaciology and tectonics are wonderful subjects everyone should know more about, as is the roller-coaster history of speculative geology. Also, ETH Zürich has an outstanding online image library that offered some great photo options. Also, Albert Heim had an amazing beard.

Active faults are among the most powerful forces shaping Earth’s landscapes. They uplift mountains, redirect rivers and trigger earthquakes. But they also weaken rocks over distances of up to 100 kilometres, making landscapes erode easier than previously thought. eaps.ethz.ch/en/news/arch...

The Professorship of Solid Mechanics at ETH Zurich is offering a doctoral position in computational earthquake rupture mechanics to investigate how heterogeneous stress states and nonlinear near-fault processes influence earthquake rupture propagation. #phd #jobalert

The Engineering Geology group at ETH Zurich is offering a doctoral position in computer vision applied to natural hazards to develop advanced algorithms to process debris flow data, with focus on optical flow and object detection. #phd #jobalert

The Engineering Geology group at ETH Zurich is looking for a doctoral student with a strong interest in fluid mechanics and numerical modelling to develop a new coupled solid/fluid mechanics-based numerical model to simulate the motion of debris flows. #phd #jobalert

Reconstruct the subsurface of the Swiss Alps in 3D! The Structural Geology and Tectonics group at ETH Zurich is offering a doctoral position in 3D Geological Modelling of the Eastern Penninics as part of the of the swisstopo "swissAlps3D" project. #phd #jobalert www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/11693

The new National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) "Genesis", led by ETH Zurich, is looking for a Personal Assistant to the NCCR Director, with support duties of the centre's HR and equal opportunity activities. #jobalert

A new study looking at the chemistry of meteorites has found that Earth is likely made entirely from the inner Solar System. In particular, Earth's make-up is strikingly similar to that of Mars and Vesta, one of the biggest objects in the asteroid belt.

Stubbusch completed her PhD at the Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS). She was supervised at Eawag by Olga Schubert and Martin Ackermann, together with Cara Magnabosco from the @eth-eaps.bsky.social.

⚒️ Article: Post-collisional calc-alkaline magmatism has originated from mixing and hybridisation of relaminated continental crust and mantle peridotite since the Archean @mncn-csic.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Many congratulations to Julian Rogger on winning the Prix Schläfli 2026 for Geosciences for his doctoral thesis. In his thesis, he investigated how closely the plant world and climate are interwoven and what happens when this interaction is no longer in balance.

Der Schweizerische Erdbebendienst (SED) an der ETH Zürich sucht ein:e Kommunikationsspezialist:in (m/w/d) für die interne und externe Kommunikation des SED, von nationalen und internationalen Forschungsprojekten sowie des BedrettoLabs.

Check out this interview with Simone Probst, doctoral researcher ETH Zurich, on real-time moonquake analysis with fibre optics. She explains how DAS could transform lunar seismology by enabling continuous, high-resolution measurements of subsurface structure.

The Swiss Seismological Service at ETH Zurich is looking for a doctoral student for an applied research project on the seismic detection, localisation, and characterisation of explosion events in underground ammunition storage facilities. #phd #jobalert

Weathered rock layers beneath the soil influence how groundwater moves during storms. The findings of a new study, led by ETH Zurich researcher Seulgi Moon (formerly UCLA), help explain when and where shallow landslides occur and could improve hazard prediction.

From our FY26 New Investigator call: @nicolefernandez.bsky.social will use metagenomics & geochemistry to probe how viral-host dynamics drive biogeochemical cycling in Sierra Nevada aquifers @eth-eaps.bsky.social jgi.doe.gov/user-science/science-stories/jgi-announces-2026-new-investigator-portfolio

The Climate Geology group at ETH Zurich is looking for a doctoral student to examine the thresholds in past Atlantic Ocean circulation using stalagmite geochemistry. Check it out and apply! The deadline is approaching soon. #phd #jobalert

Die ETH Zürich belegt weiterhin Platz 1 für die Studiengänge Erdwissenschaften, Geologie und Geophysik im internationalen Hochschulranking von Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...

Glaciers need our attention more than ever. On 21 March (World Day for Glaciers), join us at ETH Zurich for a unique programme between research, fairy tales & virtual reality.