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.
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.
DPhG Quality of Medicines Award 2025 for Christian Steuer
The Frankfurt Foundation Quality of Medicines (FFQM) and the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG) have awarded Dr. Christian Steuer, Privatdozent at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences D-CHAB, the 2025 “Award for the Advancement of Drug Quality.”
Great honour for ETH climate researcher Sonia Seneviratne
ETH Professor Sonia Seneviratne is the first Swiss citizen to receive the prestigious German Environmental Award bestowed by the German Federal Environmental Foundation. The climate researcher shares the prize, endowed with a total of 500,000 euros, with a company from Gelsenkirchen.
Georg von Krogh honoured
Professor Georg von Krogh, the new head of the D-MTEC department, has been honoured with the AMD Scientific Impact Award and has been appointed to the Board of the University of Bergen.
Galenus Technology Prize 2025 for Marilena Bohley Steiger
Marilena Bohley Steiger, research group leader in the Drug Formulation and Delivery Laboratory (Leroux Group) at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Galenus Technology Prize 2025 for her research on enzyme-mediated absorption enhancement for non-invasive drug delivery.
Honours and prizes awarded by ETH Zurich
Awards for Lecturers
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.