Honours and prizes
ETH Zurich is home to many high-calibre scientists working diligently in their specialist fields. The numerous honours and awards that ETH researchers receive for their scientific work shows just how successful they are.
ETH Zurich team takes home a quarter million in biodiversity prize
The XPRIZE Rainforest competition acknowledged ETH Zurich-led team for its development and deployment of novel, autonomous technologies that enable near real-time insights about biodiversity.
Between crystals, cats and quantum
ETH Professor Yiwen Chu is investigating how to apply quantum states to ever larger objects. This should help to gain new insights into physics and develop more efficient technologies. She has now been awarded the ETH Zurich Latsis Prize for her outstanding research.
“2024 SolarPACES Lifetime Achievement Award” for Aldo Steinfeld
Aldo Steinfeld, Professor for Renewable Energy Carriers in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, received the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's SolarPACES conference in Rome together with Manuel Romero from the IMDEA Energy Institute in Madrid.
Menna El-Assady honoured with Significant New Researcher Award
Professor Mennatallah El-Assady, head of the Interactive Visualization and Intelligence Augmentation Lab at the Department of Computer Science (D-INFK), has been awarded the 2024 Visualization Significant New Researcher Award at the IEEE VIS Conference. The prize honours her ground-breaking work at the intersection of visualization and machine learning. Congratulations!
The best ETH invention: presenting the Spark Award finalists for 2024
The prize for the best invention at ETH Zurich 2024 will be awarded on 21 November. An overview, complete with videos, of the five technologies that made it to the final.
Cancer researcher Andrea Alimonti honoured
He studies cancer cells and their cellular environment in order to new therapies. Now, ETH Zurich Professor Andrea Alimonti is being awarded the Clo?tta Prize.
Ralph Shangraw Memorial Award for Jean-Christoph Leroux
The Ralph Shangraw Memorial Award is awarded by the IPEC Americas Foundation for outstanding research in the study of excipients or excipient-related technology.?
Nicolas Gruber receives Roger Revelle Medal
Nicolas Gruber, Professor for Environmental Physics at the Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS) at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Roger Revelle Medal by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
Honours and prizes awarded by ETH Zurich
The latest annual report lists the main prizes and awards that members of ETH Zurich have received for their research and educational work in international competition during the course of the reporting year.