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The Digital Underground project finished its 3rd phase in 2023. Here's a look at the project's milestones, and what might come in the future.  

Dr Bianca Wassmann and her team at SEC’s Microalgae project surveyed who would be likely to consume a Microalgae food product and how it can be branded.

Dr Natalia Borzino's findings in Project HeatSafe highlighted the high cost of heat on productivity and the economy.  

In December 2023, Cooling Singapore's work was featured in two video news reports on Germany's ARD TV and Turkiye's TRT World.  

Signed on 4 October, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the SEC and CLC will focus on knowledge-sharing and capability building.  

SEC’s Microalgae project’s partners create calamarai rings using Microalgae and Mung Bean protein.

Bianca Wassmann from SEC's Mircoalgae Project analyses what can be done for Asian consumers to accept lab-grown meat in an article for 360info.

Byron Perez wins the ETH medal for his research on improving microalgae productivity and efficiency using nanosecond pulsed electric fields.

Researchers from Nestle, ETH Zurich and SEC exchanged ideas on the future of food and nutrition research at this first-ever symposium on 15 February.

Dr Kristina Orehounig and Cooling Singapore's SMaRTy team where featured in Channel 8's current affairs programme Frontline on 9 Dec.   

Dr Iris Haberkorn and Byron Perez's research is recognised with international awards for their work in the field of food science.

Bühler Group deploys its world’s first Stellar system based on nanosecond pulsed electric fields at SEC for more efficient microalgae processing.

From March 2022, the Singapore-ETH Centre welcomes Dr Thomas Meyer as the new managing director, replacing Mr Thomas Rufener.

Dr Iris Haberkorn on being selected as a Falling Walls Female Science Talent and her vision for the work she does.

Digital Underground’s new booklet charts its progress in developing an ecosystem of underground utilities mapping in the project’s second phase

Digital Underground, a project by Singapore ETH-Centre and the Singapore Land Authority to support the establishment of a reliable map of subsurface utilities in Singapore, began its third phase on 1 November 2021.

Prof. Martin Raubal heads the Digital Underground project in its new phase, leading the team to look deeper to develop sustainable workflows for more reliable data.

Dr Kristina Orehounig took over the reins and heads Cooling Singapore at SEC as lead principal investigator. “There is still a lot to do” in tackling urban heat, she says. 

On 11 August 2020, the Singapore-ETH Centre celebrated its tenth anniversary virtually surrounded by friends, colleagues, and partners.

How vulnerable are residents in Singapore to heat stress? Researchers from Cooling Singapore share results from an Urban Heat Vulnerability (UHV) analysis in Singapore.

Researchers from Natural Capital Singapore surveyed 501 university students in Singapore to assess whether they could distinguish between relational and instrumental values in practice.

The SEC is collaborating with Cambridge CARES (Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore) to transform master planning through Cities Knowledge Graph.

Cooling Singapore’s report evaluates the heat mitigation strength with the complete electrification and automation of Singapore's road transport sector.

Cooling Singapore’s technical report studies the anthropogenic heat from Singapore’s power generation and evaluates potential future emissions with the usage of electromobility across the island.

Cooling Singapore’s technical report provides a systematic comparison of the outputs generated from different Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools used for urban microclimate modelling.

The scientific benefits of ecosystems are often overlooked. Dr Daniel Friess and co-authors, created 11 new indicators to quantify the scientific value of ecosystems. Their study is published in Ecological Indicators.

How green are cities around the world? Are they becoming more or less green?

The Singaporean team won first place in the InCube Innovation Challenge organised by the ETH Entrepreneur Club with a pitch for "smart construction sites".

Dr Dan Richards shared the importance of biodiversity in cities as a source of natural capital at the ASEAN-India Workshop on Urban Biodiversity and Application of the City Biodiversity Index.

Prof Gerhard Schmitt shares his thoughts on the roles of stakeholders in mitigating the UHI effect in this Climate Control Journal article.

How can we capture the value of urban greenery and biodiversity when competing against urban development? The British Ecological Society featured Dr Dan Richard's proposed solution.

What is the future of urban society and the role of education in meeting future challenges? A high-powered panel explored these at the launch of the Science, Technology, Prototyping, Policy and Practice Workshop.

At the Natural Capital Symposium, Dr Daniel Richards explains why the difference in climate, demographics and cultural associations with nature in the tropics calls for a tailored assessment of natural capital.

Prof Gerhard Schmitt shared the Singapore-ETH Centre's emphasis on a people-centric approach in the planning, design and management of “responsive cities” in stars insights.

Dr Lena Chan expressed the importance of the Natural Capital Singapore project in supporting Singapore's efforts towards a biophilic city in URA's Skyline magazine

URA's Skyline magazine featured the Cooling Singapore project's efforts to beat the heat

This January, the Singapore-ETH Centre welcomes Mr Thomas Rufener as our new managing director and bids farewell to Dr Remo Burkhard, who stepped down end of December.

At the Cooling Singapore Symposium, the team presented insights and findings, paving the way in developing a roadmap to mitigate the urban heat island effect and enhance outdoor thermal comfort.

The 3rd Science, Technology and Policy Workshop brought together students from ETH Zurich, MIT, NTU, NUS, SUTD and TUM to explore how science, technology and policy are shaping the future of work.

The workshop on 1 June introduced the task force to Cooling Singapore 2.0 and to scope out the new research projects proposed for the way forward

Prof Peter Edwards writes in the Diplomatic Courier of the need to tackle the Urban Heat Island effect and how the Cooling Singapore project is playing a role in this.

The Singapore-ETH Centre celebrates International Women's Day with the launch of a Women's Research Network (WReN) on 8 March.

Prof Peter Edwards steps down from his role as director of the Singapore-ETH Centre and hands over leadership of the centre to Prof Gerhard Schmitt on 1 October 2017.

14 Aug | Prof Suter was conferred the Honorary Citizen Award of Singapore by President Tony Tan for helping to develop Singapore into a vibrant R&D hub.

We celebrate our women in research at the Future Cities Laboratory and Future Resilient Systems on the occasion of International Women's Day.

Both science and Swiss businesses are benefiting from the ETH research hub in Singapore through the Swiss Technology Impact Platform (STIP), which offers an opportunity to link research with practice.

Critical infrastructure systems are the backbone of society and ever growing in complexity and interconnectedness. A new research programme kicked off at the Singapore-ETH Centre strives to increase their robustness and resilience.