Welcome and Farewell for Singapore-ETH Centre

Singapore-ETH Centre bids a fond farewell to its current director, Gerhard Schmitt, Architect and Professor Emeritus for Information Architecture at ETH Zurich, who steps down from his post at the end of the year. The Centre also announces his successor, Gisbert Schneider, Professor for Computer-Assisted Drug Design. For ten years the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) has served as the university's research hub in Asia. A bold initiative established with Singapore's National Research Foundation as part of the CREATE campus, the SEC continues to bring together international research partners to foster innovative solutions for global issues. Instrumental in the development of the Centre in 2010, Gerhard Schmitt advanced the Executive Board's vision to realize challenge-oriented research programmes related to sustainability, urbanisation, decarbonisation, resilience, health, and food. At the same time, according to Schmitt, the insightful board knew that studying those challenges in locations where they are most pressing would produce results that positively impact development in Europe and in Switzerland. Singapore prompts best teaching experience .