Master's graduation ceremony 2019, Agricultural and Food Sciences

Ninety-eight graduates, who had successfully completed the ETH Zurich’s Agricultural and Food Sciences Master’s degree programmes, attended the graduation ceremony, held in ETH Zurich’s main auditorium on 15 March 2019. Women undoubtedly ruled the day at the recent ceremony.

19.03.2019 by D-USYS

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Enlarged view: Bild der ersten Reihe im vollbesetzten Audimax — (from left to right): Emma Lindberg, study programme coordinator Agricultural Sciences, Ursula Zybach, Grand Councillor Canton of Berne, Prof. Susanne E- Ulbrich, Director of Studies Agricultural Sciences, Dr. Jeannette Nuessli Guth, study programme coordinator Food Sciences, Prof. Shana J. Sturla, Director of Studies Food Sciences, Prof. Viola Vogel, Head of Department D-HEST, Prof. Nina Buchmann, Head of Department D-USYS, Prof. Sarah Springman, Rector of ETH Zurich, and Dr. Maja Baumann, representative of the Hans-Vontobel Foundation. Photo: Prof. Peter Fischer

A glance at the first row of the audience attending the March 2019 Master's ceremony in Agricultural and Food Sciences confirmed that women were clearly the most important hosts at this event. Rector Sarah Springman, the two Heads of Department Prof. Nina Buchmann and Prof. Viola Vogel, the Directors of Studies Prof. Susanne Ulbrich and Prof. Shana Sturla and the study programme coordinators Emma Lindberg and Dr. Jeannette Nuessli Guth were all present. "I hope we will have more celebrations of this kind at ETH Zurich," said Prof. Nina Buchmann after the ceremony. "The next generation of students also deserves to interact with female role models." Additionally, the majority of graduates in both study programmes were women.

Graduates Agricultural and Food Sciences 2019 in the LFW building
Graduates Agricultural Sciences Graduates Food Science Robin Bloch and Claudia Fricker, Hochdorf Reto Zihlmann and Prof. Susanne E. Ulbrich Prof. Alexander Mathys, Melanie Binggeli, Prof. Michael Kreuzer Timothy Sykes and Maja Baumann, Vontobel Robin Bloch and Prof. Shana J. Sturla Anastasia Stanga and Prof. Shana J. Sturla Theodoros Gavaliatsis and Edouard Appenzeller, SGLWT

Awards

Reto Zihlmann (Agricultural Sciences) was awarded the ETH medal for his master's thesis "Leaf elongation response to drought" mentored by Prof. Bruno Studer and Dr. Stephen Yates, and Anastasia Stanga (Food Science) for her thesis "Mechanism of Cisplatin and Oxaliplatin Bypass by Human TLS Polymerases" supervised by Prof. Shana Sturla and Dr. Hailey Gahlon.
Cécile Ringger (Agricultural Sciences) and Robin Bloch (Food Science) received the ETH Zurich Willi Studer Prize for the best students who completed the 2018 master's programmes.
Melanie Binggeli (Agricultural Sciences) received the H. Wilhelm Schaumann Prize for her master's thesis "Elaborating concepts to identify influences on Hermetia illucens larval growth" mentored by Prof. Alexander Mathys and Prof. Michael Kreuzer while Dr. Timothy Sykes was awarded the Hans Vontobel Prize for his excellent doctoral thesis.
Theodoros Gavaliatsis (Food Sciences) was awarded the Swiss Society of Food Science and Technology (SGLWT) Prize for his master’s thesis "Bread Crust Design – Optimizing the moisture barrier properties of bread crust" mentored by Prof. Peter Fischer and Dr. Christian Städeli. Robin Bloch was awarded the Hochdorf Prize for his master’s thesis "Pulsed electric field (PEF) system optimisation by use of an interdisciplinary approach" mentored by Prof. Alexander Mathys and Prof. Erich Windhab.

Our warm congratulations goes to all the graduates. We wish them all the best for the future.