So that I don't get too fat and lazy I now go swimming more often than earlier, a habit which I picked up in Hawaii (of course) - from Anne-Catherine - thanks for the swimming lessons! More on Physics, chess, checkers.
In 2006, I got my 15 minutes of fame by appearing on Swiss TV in the program 10 vor 10 on March 13,2006. You can watch the video by going to the 10 vor 10 archive, and there look for the program part called "Dicke Luft in Restaurants" of March 13, 2006)
well, enough talk, enjoy the pictures!
Family
My just-married grandparents Dubs in Assuan on Silvester 1929. I never knew this grandfather, he died before I was born.
With my father at the Gritschersee in 1998
My parents swimming in the Gritschersee in 1998
My sister in front of the Hochjochgrat.
My sister came in her lovely MG, but it broke down once again. She sold it soon thereafter
I get a godchild: Pascale, together with her proud father Rolf
And another godchild, Lea, in the middle, watching the fireworks
My baby sister Alice, enjoying some of my fresh-baked Zopf
Trying to change the diapers of Eva Francesca Walter, my niece
My step-grandfather (does such a thing exist??) in action around the time when I was born.
High School (Gymnasium)
My greatest programming failure ever!
Class picture about at the time when we finished high school (1990): Standing, from left to right: Monika Tschanz, Lorenz Solca, Marcel Emmerling, Simon Birnstiel, Boris Furet, Agnes Hostettler, (somebody half-hidden who I can't recognize), Cornelia Schwab, Yves Beetschen, Nadine Hauser, Konrad Graf. Sitting, left to right: Hugo Ryser, Isa Bruhin (not in our class), me, Thomas Hulliger, Frank Gugger, Philipp Ritter, and a girl whose name I have forgotten - she wasn't in our class either.
Just after the iron curtain dropped, I went on a weird trip to Russia with Rolf Becher, Thomas Hulliger and Lorenz Solca
Physics Student at ETH
My student legitimation card of ETH Zürich, 1991
Simon Birnstiel, probably in Lauenen 1992
Konrad Graf around 1992
Me in Lauenen around 1992
At the student world chess championship in Sofia, 1994
Fabian Mäser in Sils - no, he didn't drink both bottles all alone!
PhD Student at ETH
My Personalausweis as PhD student at ETH, 1996
I win the Swiss bundesmeisterschaft in chess in 1997!
Fabian Mäser and Karin Büchel on the way to Piz Julier in 1997
New Year 97/98 with Konrad Graf, Anna Radvila, Thomas Hulliger and Hugo Ryser
I climb Kirche Fluntern in 1998
During my PhD, I had a brief phase where I made a lot of sports - which soon ended due to knee troubles
I had to work in the lovely German city of Essen for about a year during my PhD - I can't remember much more than this about it
The Speer, which is quite low but nevertheless one of Switzerland's most beautiful mountains
Alejandro Keller at the Edinburgh Aerosol Conference in 1998
15 minutes of fame, part 1
15 minutes of fame, part 2
In 1999, I went to China to measure particle emissions of a coal power plant at Tsinghua University
Ueli Matter in China, March 13, 1999
Zhiqiang Qian with his wife, China, 1999
This is how you go skiing in China!
Karl Przybilla at the Aerosol Conference in Prag, 1999
With Natalia and Alejandro from Amden over Leistkamm to Weesen, 1999
Johannes Paul, Thomas Hulliger, Jenny Oswald and Kerstin Siegrist in Sils
My experimental setup for measuring the relaxation time of hot electrons in metallic nanoparticles
Christian Back in Mexiko 2000
Wolfgang Weber, probably in Mexiko 2000
My PhD advisor, HC Siegmann
I never would have thought I would miss Hönggerberg, but I do!
PostDoc in Hawaii
Just after 9/11 I went to Hawaii for a postdoc year in the group of Klaus Sattler. Of course I also enjoyed the sea...
...and went snorkeling often, where I saw a lot of my favorite fish, the Moorish Idol
In August 2002, I went to Las Vegas for the computer checkers world championship. Here's a picture of me and my program Cake playing against Nemesis by Murray Cash
Despite lots of work on my checkers program, it finished last of 3 entrants - however with the tiniest possible margin, 2 games lost, one won, and 45 draws. Nevertheless, I still enjoyed my All-American breakfast!
Aaaah, the sunsets! With Corinne on the balcony of our apartment, which was just on the sea.
Back in Switzerland
Oh my, am I this old already?
Skiing in St. Moritz with Johannes Gassner 2004
Doing Rocket Science with Ralf Kägi in 2004
Best man at Andreas and Rahel Umbachs wedding in 2004
Ski day with the institute: Alejandro Keller, Stefan van Ekeren, Markus Neuhaus, Heinz Burtscher, Herbert Looser, Simon Künzli and Thomas Schär
No snow for 3 weeks in Sils, lake Sils froze, and we went ice skating on it! No, I didn't fall down, I'm posing for the picture :-)
While cooking, I invent a new strategy game for two players and test it with Patrick Kupper
Patriotic food for real Swiss citizens on first of August 2006 in Austria
Austrian cows get the latest news on aerosols
This is what I would look like if I was a Southpark character!
Enjoying fondue with the ex-PhD-student gang; from left to right: Konstantin Siegmann, myself, Johannes Paul, Alejandro Keller, Heinz Burtscher, Christoph Hüglin, Harald Hepp, Karl Przybilla and Ernest Weingartner
In Zermatt with the PSIgirls :-)
Rahel climbs our birch on her birthday!
My brain, scanned on September 30th, 2008 (view as movie).
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