President of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Prof. Olaf Kübler, visited Tsinghua on November. 12. Prof. Chen Xi, Chairman of Tsinghua University Council, met and talked with Prof. Olaf Kübler.

During their talk, Prof. Chen Xi introduced the recent development of Tsinghua. The two sides discussed possible cooperation between the two universities in research and exchange of students and faculties.

Prof. Olaf Kübler became President of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in 1997.

Founded in 1460, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) is a renowned university in the world. From 1901, more than twenty professors and alumni of ETH Zurich received the Nobel Prize.