Close to 100 researchers from across Switzerland gathered at ETH Zurich on 17 April 2026 for the grand finale of the Soft Talks series: a full day of invited talks, research pitches, and scientific image contest.
[MaP Student Portrait] Andrea Ling, a fifth-year doctoral student in Prof. Benjamin Dillenburger’s Digital Building Technologies group, participated in the Venice Biennale. As national representative for Canada, she explored the potential for collaboration between humans and nature.
[MaP Student Portrait] Benjamin Fahl is a second-year doctoral student in the Disordered
Materials Group led by Prof. Arkadiy Simonov at the Department of
Materials (D-MATL). He values MaP as a broader community that connects him to other researchers.