Prizes and related events
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.
Lopez-Loreta Prize / Grant
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.
R?ssler Prize
The R?ssler Prize is awarded to a young professor of ETH Zurich on an annual base. Dr Max R?ssler established the prize to support promising young researchers in the middle of an accelerating career.
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.
Ru?i?ka Prize
The annual Ru?i?ka 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
Nina Buchmann awarded British Ecological Society Honorary Membership
Nina Buchmann, Professor of Grassland Sciences at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Honorary Membership by the British Ecological Society (BES). Honorary membership is the highest honour given by the Society.
APS Fellowship for Filippo Coletti
Filippo Coletti, Professor of Experimental Fluid Dynamics at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (D-MAVT) at ETH Zurich, has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). He is recognised for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of particle-laden turbulence.
Tanja Stadler awarded prestigious Doron Prize for pioneering work in computational evolution and public health
The Swiss Foundation for the Doron Prize has honoured Professor Tanja Stadler, Head of the Computational Evolution Group at the Department of Biosystems and Engineering Sciences and Deputy Head of the D-BSSE, with one of Switzerland's most prestigious awards for her pioneering contributions to computational evolution and her central role in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic.