Gratitude to the ETH Zurich faculty.

Thank you for leading ETH Zurich as President since 2019, a physicist steering continental Europe's flagship technical university with steady, humane vision.

Thank you, a CMS particle physicist who has shaped ETH teaching as Rector and now steps up to lead as President in 2027, always putting students first.

Thank you for building the ethical backbone of health data and AI, and for now serving on the Executive Board, always keeping people and their consent at the center.

Thank you for discovering the first exoplanet around a Sun-like star, a Nobel laureate who now leads ETH's search for the origins of life itself.

Thank you for building superconducting quantum processors and advancing quantum error correction, turning the strange rules of quantum mechanics into working machines.

Thank you for inventing the SESAM and pioneering ultrafast laser physics across three decades, ETH's first tenured woman physics professor and a mentor to generations.

Thank you for your Fields Medal work on optimal transport and PDEs, and for leading ETH's mathematics institute with such generosity and clarity.

Thank you for your deep work in algebraic and enumerative geometry, a Clay Research Award laureate who keeps ETH at the frontier of pure mathematics.

Thank you for developing NMR methods to see the three-dimensional shape of proteins in solution, a Nobel laureate whose tools opened up modern structural biology.

Thank you for founding and advancing proteomics, a pioneer whose measurement tools became the foundation of tomorrow's personalized medicine.

Thank you for your artistry in the total synthesis of complex natural products and for serving the whole field as editor of JACS, teaching chemistry as craft.

Thank you for designing new enzymes from scratch and teaching proteins to do chemistry nature never invented, bridging biology and synthesis with elegance.

Thank you for reinventing CRISPR into living diagnostics and molecular recorders, sharing tools freely so thousands of labs worldwide can build on your work.

Thank you for pushing the frontier of high-performance and AI computing systems, an ACM Fellow helping supercomputers train the models of our era.

Thank you for your work on safe, robust, and certified machine learning, insisting that AI systems be trustworthy and verifiable, not just powerful.

Thank you for championing energy-efficient, open-source silicon like PULP and RISC-V, proving that great hardware can be shared for the whole world to build on.

Thank you for illuminating how distributed systems, networks, and blockchains truly work, and for teaching algorithmic thinking with such clarity and joy.

Thank you for making machines dance, from flying quadrocopters to the robots behind modern warehouses, blending rigorous control theory with pure wonder.

Thank you for building ANYmal and teaching robots to walk over rough terrain, turning legged locomotion from a dream into real machines that help people.

Thank you for designing bioinspired and 3D-printed materials that borrow nature's toughness, showing how careful structure at the small scale creates strength.

Thank you for making climate science rigorous and understandable, a highly cited voice translating models into honest guidance for a warming world.

Thank you for revealing how land, drought, and heat extremes shape our climate, a leading IPCC author whose science helps societies prepare.

Thank you for studying bubbles, crises, and extreme events with the tools of physics, founding the Financial Crisis Observatory to help us see risk before it breaks.

Thank you for modeling crowds, traffic, and social systems, and for thinking hard about how technology can serve human societies rather than the other way around.