Vor hundert Jahren wurde unter anderem an der Universität Zürich (UZH) das Fundament zur Quantenmechanik gelegt. Heute ist sie Grundlage zahlreicher Technologien – und wirft neue Fragen auf.
Humans from different cultures speak to their children using a form of speech known as “child-directed speech”, or “baby talk”. However, it appears that this characteristic is far from prevalent in non-human great apes.
Twenty-one-year-old Maximilian Janisch defended his PhD thesis today. In this interview, the mathematician reflects on his time at UZH and shares his plans for the future.
Prof. Dr. Karin Schwiter receives a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant!
Prof. Dr. Karin Schwiter, Assistant Professor of Labour Geography with a focus on digitalization at the Department of Geography receives an ERC Advanced Grant for the project "Not enough paid hours: Understanding the rise of involuntary part-time employment.". She is a DSI professor and co-leader of the DSI Community Work.
With her ERC Advanced Grant the UZH labor geographer Karin Schwiter plans to study the problem of underemployment in Switzerland, the UK and the Netherlands.
A few days after the landslide in the Lötschental valley, remote sensing specialists from the University of Zurich (UZH) measured the debris cone from above.
Images can reveal cancer cells and visualize learning processes or environmental degradation. They can simulate the birth of galaxies, analyze how AI-generated images are used, and paint a picture of what ancient Rome may have looked like. The latest UZH Magazin shines a light on the many ways in which UZH researchers are using images to generate knowledge.
A severe bone infection most likely caused the dinosaur whose skeleton graces the entrance of UZH's Natural History Museum to meet a sticky end in the mud.
Das Wissen über Heilpflanzen wird in afrikanischen Ländern anders vermittelt. Eine Sonderausstellung im Botanischen Garten beleuchtet die Pflanzenheilkunst in Uganda.
Fungal Resistance in Wheat: Preserving Biodiversity for Food Security
Wheat production is threatened by a major fungal disease: yellow rust. UZH researchers have found traditional wheat varieties from Asia that harbor several resistance-conferring genes. They may serve as a durable source of yellow rust resistance in commercial varieties in the future.
Dr. Mara Knüsel received during the Dies academicus the Jahrespreis 2025 of the Faculty of Science for her doctoral thesis "Opening the Black Box. Biodiversity and Biogeography of Groundwater Amphipods in Switzerland».
Dr. Paula Kahumbu receives the Honorary Doctorate of the Faculty of Science
The Faculty of Science of the University of Zurich awards an Honorary Doctorate to Dr. Paula Kahumbu. She is a leading conservationist and wildlife advocate. Paula Kahumbu has gained international recognition for her research on elephants and her globally successful campain "Hand Off Our Elephants".
Prof. Dr. Paola Cerrito, assistent professor at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology
The Faculty of Science welcomes Prof. Dr. Paola Cerrito as assistent professor for Human Evolution at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology. Her interests focus on better understand the evolution of human life history (patterns of growth, maintenance, and reproduction) and how it co-evolved with our social, behavioural, and cognitive adaptations.
Prof. Dr. Katharina Anna Wilmes, SNF Starting Grantee at the Department of Neuroinformatics
The Faculty of Science welcomes Prof. Dr. Katharina Anna Wilmes as SNF Starting Grantee at the Department of Neuroinformatics. She leads the project “Neural mechanisms of perception and learning in uncertainty”.
Researchers have uncovered new insights into the evolution of cosexuality in plants by studying the genome of the liverwort Marchantia quadrata. Their findings reveal how sex chromosomes are reshaped when plants transition from separate sexes to cosexuality, providing a window into the broader mechanisms of sex chromosome evolution in plants.
