Prizes and related events

Presentation of the certificate for the Rössler Prize
Award ceremony for the Rössler Prize 2017 (Nicola Pitaro)

ETH Zurich awards various prizes to excellent researchers, which are listed below. For further information also see the overview of research prizes awarded by other institutions and the news page for prizes and other honours awarded to or by ETH Zurich.

Latsis Prize and Symposium

The Fondation Latsis Internationale finances the annual ETH Zurich Latsis Prize, which is dedicated to young researchers. The foundation has also been supporting the annual Latsis Symposium since 1986.

Rössler Prize

The Rössler Prize is awarded to a young professor of ETH Zurich on an annual base. Dr Max Rössler established the prize to support promising young researchers in the middle of an accelerating career.  

Lopez-Loreta Prize

The Lopez-Loreta Prize has been in existence since 2018 and is given to excellent young researchers of ETH Zurich and three other European universities. The award is used to work on breakthrough scientific discoveries or promising technological innovations.

Chorafas Prize

Each year, the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation awards the Chorafas Prize to doctoral students of ETH Zurich in engineering, medical and natural sciences who have received a silver medal for their dissertation.

Ružička Prize

The annual Ružička Prize is awarded by ETH Zurich to honour research in chemistry conducted in Switzerland or by a Swiss citizen working abroad.

Spark Award

ETH Zurich gives the Spark Award for the most promising invention that was patented in the preceding year.

Latest prizes:

Hans Eggenberger Prize 2023 awarded to Dr. Stefan Köpfli

HMZ Award 2023 to Michael J. Müller and Helena D. Aicher

Andreas Krause named ACM Fellow

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