Welcome to UZH Space

Connecting Space Research Across Disciplines from Science to Society

UZH Space is a platform to connect and integrate all space-related activities at the University of Zürich under one shared umbrella. The primary goal of UZH Space is to create a vibrant, transdisciplinary platform connecting researchers across departments and faculties working on space-related topics.

The University of Zürich is home to a diverse range of space-related research, spanning astrophysics, earth observation, ethics and theology, law, robotics, space life sciences, and many more, involving over 35 research groups across nearly every faculty.

UZH Space serves to coordinate space-related research and activities at the university, organize regular events, connect researchers with other experts, tools and infrastructure, encourage novel research, and support innovation and entrepreneuership.

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19 Dec 2025

Bringing Machine Learning closer to People through Art

Lukas Drees, UZH Space representative and postdoctoral researcher at the EcoVision Lab at UZH as well as a member of the DIZH Public Data Lab, explains in this interview how he aims to bridge a gap between public perceptions of machine learning and what the technology actually is and can do, and why the Public Data Lab is particularly well suited to this task.
Read the full interview here

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15 Dec 2025

UZH Festive Card Snow 2025

This year’s UZH festive card features an image drawn from UZH research with a link to space-based observation. The selected image was contributed by the Department of Geography and is based on satellite data, showing dry snow on mountain peaks in yellow, while areas of consistently strong backscatter in urban regions appear in white.
The image was part of this year's exhibition “The Aesthetics of Wonder” at UZH.

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10 Dec 2025

Uranus and Neptune Might Be Rock Giants

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the Solar System planets’ interior. The composition of Uranus and Neptune, the two outer most planets, might be more rocky and less icy than previously thought.

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9 Dec 2025

UZH Space - Networking Apéro 2025

UZH Space hosted an informal networking event open to the entire UZH Space community and researchers interested in joining the initiative. The gathering was particularly aimed at early-career researchers to strengthen grassroots support for transdisciplinary research within the UZH Space community.

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