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Dr Johannes Lengler, currently Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the title of Adjunct Professor by the ETH Board. As a leading theoretical computer scientist, his research ranges from pure mathematics to the neurosciences.

Kristina Hostáková joined Professor Dennis Hofheinz’s research group at the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science last December as a postdoc. In this interview, she talks about asymmetric cryptography, her experiences on the path to ETH Zurich and the promotion of women in computer science.

Professors Emo Welzl and David Haussler have received the Symposium of Computational Geometry (SoCG) Test of Time Award for a paper with long-term impact they published 34 years ago. 

One of the most prestigious prizes in the area of theoretical computer science has been awarded to Robin Moser for his algorithmic version of the Lovász Local Lemma.

At the age of 29, Professor of Computer Science Mohsen Ghaffari is one of the youngest professors at ETH Zurich. But in his native Iran he originally studied quite a different subject.

London, April 10th, 2012 – Today, Nature Communications, a high-​profile journal of the Nature Publishing Group (NPG), publishes the article "Discreteness-​induced concentration inversion in mesoscopic chemical systems", co-​authored by Rajesh Ramaswamy, Nélido González-​Segredo, Ivo F. Sbalzarini, all from ETHZ’s MOSAIC Group, and Ramon Grima from the University of Edinburgh.