Education & Career

Automatic control is the hidden science that enables most modern technologies. We provide professionals with a targeted education in automation, feedback control, and machine learning.

In this second stage we leave the valley and move a bit higher up. Of course, we could walk or climb, but let us enjoy a remarkable piece of engineering and catch a gondola (cable car).

The fellowship supports early career researchers from outside Switzerland to come and spend a period of 4-6 months in an NCCR Automation lab.

Our new CAS ETH Applied Automation Technology provides participants with a scientific understanding of the most important applications of control theory - and helps their careers become more "AI-resilient"

Do you need a break from research? Would you like to learn something new, gain a different perspective? Then you might want to consider doing an industry internships for a few months. Three of our NCCR Automation researchers have done this, and they all strongly recommend it.

Zappy, robotics workshops for girls and boys, targets 11 to 13 years old in order to introduce them to the robotics world. The courses are free and open to all. The organization of separate workshops for girls and boys with the same content also aims to encourage girls' access to these activities.

Apply now for the opportunity to spend up to six months in an NCCR Automation lab.

In a Master’s course at ETH, students are learning how to guide robotic decision making – and having their work graded by robots too.

Last week NCCR Automation members Saverio Bolognani and Nicolas Lanzetti went to the Kantonsschule Zürcher Unterland in Bülach with the SATW TechDays.

In collaboration with the Swiss Association of Women Engineers (SVIN) and NCCR Digital Fabrication (DFAB), the NCCR Automation organised an interactive webinar on The Power of Networking to provide insights and tools for establishing a network effectively.

As part of the Bench2Biz workshops, a team led by Carlo Cenedese explored his research results for commercialization potential. There, Carlo gained insights from various different viewpoints and benefitted from honest feedback within a safe environment from which he could potentially launch his entrepreneurial career.

Naomi Stricker is in the third year of her PhD at the Computer Engineering Group at ETH Zurich, in which she focuses on making energy harvesting systems more robust and able to communicate and collaborate. Her research could help do anything from heating buildings more efficiently to monitoring air quality.

Mahsa Rahimi-Siegrist is a doctoral student and research assistant at the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems at ETH Zurich and a member of the NCCR Automation. She is interested in the behavior of public transport passengers and works on improving information strategies to increase the quality of transport services.

NCCR Automation Seminar Series is a weekly seminar covering broad topics of interests for the NCCR Automation.

Pengbo Zhu is a first year PhD researcher who joined the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Automation last October. With the help of intelligent systems, she works on improving the spatial distribution of shared vehicles. In doing so, Zhu hopes to positively impact quality of life in cities around the world.

The NCCR Automation is a large-scale research network funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. John Lygeros, director of the program, explains why such an effort is needed and what the more than 40 researchers are working on.