Federal Council appoints Gian-Luca Bona to the ETH Board and Thierry Strässle as PSI Director ad interim
Bern, 14.12.2018 - On 14 December the Federal Council appointed Prof. Gian-Luca Bona, Director of Empa, to the ETH Board. The Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Act states that the four research institutes, the PSI, WSL, Empa and Eawag, must be represented on the ETH Board. This position will now be assumed by Prof. Bona, as PSI director Prof. Joël Mesot, who has represented the research institutes until now, was appointed president of the ETH Zurich in October, and so steps down as PSI director at the end of this year. A successor is now being sought for this post; Dr Thierry Strässle will assume the directorship ad interim from January 2019.