2024
News: National Prize for Open Research Data
Elizabeth Tilley, Professor of Global Health Engineering at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, and her team have been awarded the National ORD Prize 2024 by the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences for their research project «openwashdata».
Blog: Climate change alone does not cause mass migration
Dr. Jan Freihardt's Blog Post is published within the Zukunftsblog on the ETH Website
Blog: Empowering Students: The Role of Transparency at Global Health Engineering
Transparency in grading and expectations towards students is crucial for their success and for academic fairness. At Global Health Engineering, we took this labour-consuming step to provide students with all the necessary information before they commit to a project with us. The result: they are provided with clear guidelines and rubrics for multiple aspects of academic work.
Blog: Data for social good, yes and then?: A year at openwashdata as a data scientist
Reflecting on a transformative year at the Chair of Global Health Engineering, Mian Zhong shares her journey from a new graduate to a data scientist in the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) sector.
Blog: From Smoke to Solution: Advancing Black Carbon as a Regulatory Pollutant
Black carbon in the atmosphere contributes to climate change and is a known carcinogen. Yet, this pollutant remains largely unmonitored and unregulated. Despite its dangers, there are no guidelines on safe levels of black carbon in the air we breathe. It’s time to focus on establishing effective regulations to monitor and control black carbon concentrations in the atmosphere.