News & Discoveries

NCCR Genesis selected for funding

The Swiss federal government has approved funding for six new National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCRs). NCCR Genesis, one of the six Centres, is led by ETH Zurich in collaboration with the University of Lausanne.

More information is available via the website of COPL and the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation.

Modern stromatolites in Laguna Negra, Argentina.

Fellowship Opportunities –2025

The NOMIS–ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme, Zurich and the Leverhulme Centre for Life
in the Universe Senior Fellowship Programme

University of Cambridge and the Kavli-Laukien Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University are now open for applications.


For further details and applications:
NOMIS-ETH Fellowship Programme

LCLU Senior Fellowship Programme

Kavli-Laukien Fellowship Programme

The Origins Federation announces a Graduate Student Award

The Origins Federation announces a Graduate Student Award in Origins of Life research to be awarded annually for the best Ph.D. thesis-related work by a graduate student from one of the four Federation institutions.

Dimitar Sasselov presenting the PhD award to Gabriel Giger at the 2025 Origins Federation Conference, University of Chicago, USA. (Image: Tarji Stewart)

The Origins Federation is proud to announce that Gabriel Giger from ETH Zurich is the winner of the 2025 award.

Annual Meeting 2025 at University of Chicago

The next Annual Meeting of the Origins Federation will take place at the University of Chicago on September 9 – 12, 2025. We plan a conference that combines a few broad field review lectures, multiple short science update talks, a large poster session, and plenty of time for discussions and informal interactions.

Further details and travel arrangements information will be provided later in the spring.