At its meeting on 25 and 26 May , the ETH Board appointed Nathalie Dubois from the Surface Waters Research and Management Department as an Assistant Professor of Paleolimnology at ETH Zurich. Dubois is an internationally recognised expert in lake sediments. She uses sediment cores to reconstruct past environmental conditions. At ETH, Nathalie Dubois’ work will focus on the impact of early human activity on the ecosystems of previously uninhabited eastern Pacific islands. The results of her research will help her to draw parallels between past and present climate change, among other things. Dubois contributes new research areas and additional expertise to ETH Zurich, and will further enhance the existing collaboration with Eawag in the area of paleolimnology.