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Created by ETH researchers, Europe on Edge is a long-form podcast about Europe’s future in AI, science, and innovation. It features deep conversations with top researchers, founders, and investors on what Europe must do to stay globally competitive.
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#13 — Thomas Dohmke, Entire: From GitHub CEO to Founder, AI Agents and the Future of Coding, and Why European Startups Become American
AI agents now let anyone with an idea build software. Thomas Dohmke, former CEO of GitHub and founder of Entire, explains why he left GitHub to build for a world where humans and agents create software together. We discuss why you still nee
#12 — Estelle Clerc, CellX Biosolutions: Bacteria That Eat Forever Chemicals, From PhD to Startup, and Why Regulation Drives Cleantech
PFAS, the so-called forever chemicals, are everywhere: in our pans, our cosmetics, our water, and our soil. Estelle Clerc, Co-Founder and CEO of CellX Biosolutions, explains how her team finds natural bacteria that can break them down, goin
#11 — Francesco Pappone, Paradigma: Automating Science, AI Scientists, and the SPRIND Frontier AI Challenge
Can AI make the next great scientific discovery? Francesco Pappone, Co-Founder and CEO of Paradigma, explains his mission to automate scientific research—from building AI “mad scientists” to creating factories for discovery. We discuss why
#10 — Max Welling: AI’s Energy Wall, Physics as the Next Breakthrough, and Discovering New Materials with CuspAI
Is AI approaching a compute and energy wall? Max Welling, Professor at the University of Amsterdam and Co-Founder and CTO of CuspAI, explains why physics could help unlock more efficient intelligence. We discuss discovering new materials wi
#9 — Marcel Salathé: "We're Being Stupid", Why Europe Can't Sit Out AI, Cutting Education Budgets, Open Models as Public Infrastructure, and Europe's Fear of Risk
Marcel Salathé, Professor at EPFL and Co-Director of the EPFL AI Center, argues that AI is our generation's steam engine and that ignoring it is becoming career sabotage. We discuss Europe's fear narrative around AI, why models must be alig
#8 — Michael Siegenthaler: AI and Jobs, What the Data Says, Who Wins and Who Loses, the Future of Work in Europe
Michael Siegenthaler, Professor at ETH Zurich and Head of Swiss Labour Market Research at KOF, explores what the data says about AI and jobs, who risks being left behind, and how Europe can adapt to a changing labour market. Thank you for l
#7 — Edouard Treccani: Venture Capital, What Makes Great Founders, AI, Europe vs. Silicon Valley, the Future of European Tech
Edouard Tricani, Partner at Founderful, explains what VCs look for in great founders, how AI is reshaping startups, and why Europe can build globally important technology companies. Thank you for listening! SPONSORS ETH Juniors: https://eth
#6 — Pascal Bertrand & Atoof Shakir: From Students to Startup Founders at Seldon Technologies on AI, Raising Capital, and Building Before Graduation
How do you build an AI startup while still at university? ETH Zurich students Pascal Bertrand and Atoof Shakir, cofounders of Seldon Technologies, discuss finding a cofounder, raising angel funding without a pitch deck, and teaching AI to u
#5 — Jürgen Schmidhuber: The GOAT of AI on Deep Learning, Robotics, the AI Bubble, AGI, and What Comes Next
Jürgen Schmidhuber, one of the pioneers of modern AI, explains what today’s AI systems are still missing, why AGI may require machines to master the physical world, and why he believes current spending on GPUs could be part of a temporary A
#4 — Magnus Müller: AI Agents, Browser Automation, Y Combinator, Europe vs. Silicon Valley, the Future of the Web
Magnus Müller, co-founder of BrowserUse, explains how AI agents are learning to control the web and how BrowserUse is building the infrastructure that enables them to interact with websites. Previously, Magnus studied at ETH Zurich, where B
#3 — Max Buckley: AI Search, Coding Agents, Europe’s AI Competitiveness, Frontier Models, the Future of Software
Max Buckley is the Head of Knowledge Research at Exa, an AI search company building web search and retrieval infrastructure for AI agents. Previously, he spent over a decade at Google, working across software engineering, machine learning,
#2—Maximilian Niroomand: Europe’s AI Compute Race, GPU Scarcity, Inference, Open Source Models, Building Lyceum
Maximilian Niroomand is the Co-Founder and CTO of Lyceum, a European AI infrastructure startup building the compute layer behind modern AI. Thank you for listening! Sponsors • ETH Juniors (https://ethjuniors.ch/ETH) • Student Project House
#1—Philippe Aghion: Creative Destruction, AI Revolution, Europe vs. US & China, Schumpeter, Open Source, Jobs of the Future
Philippe Aghion is a Nobel Prize-winning French economist and one of the world’s foremost experts on innovation, economic growth and creative destruction. Thank you for listening! Sponsors • ETH Juniors (https://ethjuniors.ch/) • Student Pr
