Joël Mesot

Joël Mesot has been President of ETH Zurich since 2019. At ETH he studied physics and obtained his doctorate with a thesis on high-temperature superconductors. He spent several years researching quantum materials in France, the USA and above all at the Swiss Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) where he was promoted to head the Laboratory for Neutron Scattering in 2004. In 2008 he became director of the PSI and was promoted full professor at ETH Zurich. Since taking office at ETH Zurich, Mesot has deepened dialogue with political actors both in Switzerland and internationally and driven forwards strategic fields such as AI, energy, space and cyber security.