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.
Hans Eggenberger Prize 2023 awarded to Dr. Stefan Köpfli
Dr. Stefan Köpfli, postdoc at the Institute for Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), headed by of Prof. Jürg Leuthold, was awarded the Hans Eggenberger Prize 2023 for his dissertation "Graphene for Highest Speed Photodetectors". Congratulations!
HMZ Award 2023 to Michael J. Müller and Helena D. Aicher
The "HMZ Award - The PhD team challenge" for 2023 goes to Helena D. Aicher from the University of Zurich and to Michael J. Müller who completed his doctorate at ETH Zurich.
Andreas Krause named ACM Fellow
Professor Andreas Krause from the Department of Computer Science has been named ACM Fellow for his contributions to learning-based decision making under uncertainty. Big congratulations!
Watt d’Or for efficient and sustainable power supply with photovoltaics
ETH Zurich researchers from the Automatic Control Laboratory and the electricity supplier AEW Energie AG have won the 2024 Watt d’Or award in the Energy Technologies category. Their algorithm, which was implemented at AEW Energie, makes it possible to optimise electricity grid operations.
emba X Receives Award for Innovation in Higher Education
The joint Executive MBA offered by ETH Zurich and the University of St.Gallen, emba X, has received its first award for Innovation in Higher Education at MERIT Summit & Awards in Paris.
Adriano Rutz wins the Swiss National ORD Prize
Adriano Rutz, a Postdoc at ETH Zurich, wins the first National Prize for Open Research Data (ORD) for “The LOTUS Initiative” project. LOTUS explores new ways of promoting the re-use of data in the fields of biology and chemistry and thus of sharing knowledge in natural products research.
ETH team "RACKlette" wins international competition
For the very first time a Swiss team, RACKlette team of ETH Zurich, emerged as the Overall Winner of the Computer Cluster Competition at the international Supercomputing Conference (SC23). The team competed with other international teams at SC23 in Denver, CO, to solve demanding computational problems.
Victor Mougel receives the Ruzicka Prize 2023
Victor Mougel, Professor at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences of ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Ruzicka Prize 2023 for his pioneering work on redox properties and catalytic applications of synthetic Iron-Sulfur Clusters.
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.