_Heinz Blatter is Professor at ETH Zurich since 1999. He completed his studies in physics with a diploma thesis (equiv. to MSc) on "Spin correlation in Fermions" at the Department of Physics, ETH, Zurich in 1972. The work for his doctoral thesis at ETH Zurich on the thermodynamics of polar glaciers included field work in 1974/75 in the Canadian high arctic. His current research interests are the numerical modelling of the physics of Alpine glaciers, with a focus on their future evolution, and ice sheets, with a focus on glacial cycles. _Thomas Greber obtained his PhD at ETH Zürich on Two Aspects concerning 4f impurities on metals in 1990. From 1991 to 1994 he worked at the Fritz-Haber-Institut in Berlin on non-adiabatic gas surface reactions. Since 2004 he is Professor at the Physik-Institut of the University of Zürich.

His main interests in research are sp2 hybridized single layer hexagonal boron nitride and molecules like magnetic endofullerenes on surfaces that he investigates with photoemission, scanning tunneling microscopy and squid magnetometry. http://www.physik.uzh.ch/~greber/.