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Dr. Erich Meister has been at ETH Zurich for 40 years. For 35 of those, he has successfully further developed the PC practical course and always put a lot of energy into teaching – whether to train students or curious kids at open lab days. Now he is retiring and handing over the reins to Dr. Takuya Segawa. In an interview with Nonô Saramago (editor of Exsikkator), he talks about his times at ETH, chances, programming languages, calligraphy and paradise. We say thank you with a video. 

Computer tomography (CT) is indispensable in modern medicine, but CT scanners could achieve so much more with better imaging and less X-​ray exposure. In a project with industrial partner ams International AG, ETH researchers led by Maksym Kovalenko are testing new materials for the promising photon counting method.

At the start of the year, Gisbert Schneider handed over the management of the Singapore-​ETH Centre (SEC) to Manu Kapur. The outgoing SEC Director looks back in an interview at his three years in office and explains why he is keeping one foot in Singapore.