Professor Brad Nelson at the Institue of Robotics and Intelligent Systems operates an Octomag - an instrument whose eight electromagnetic coils permit maneuvering micro-robots through the eye to deliver drugs to the retina.

Julián Cancino

Julián Cancino is president of the Academic Association of Scientific Staff at the ETH Zurich (AVETH)

Julián Cancino completed a Master of Science degree in physics at the ETH and is now doctoral student at the Institute for Theoretical Physics and research assistant at the Department of Physics.

Since 2012, Julián Cancino is president of the Academic Association of Scientific Staff at the ETH Zurich (AVETH). The organization represents PhD students, research assistants, postdocs, and all other scientific employees excluding professors. Julián Cancino's main goal as president of the AVETH is to intensify the networking between the various department associations, representatives and other groups to achieve a reliable information flow that is the condition to represent the scientific staff best.