Honours and prizes

Gerald Haug, Professor of Climate Geochemistry at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and former President of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, has been appointed to the German Federal Government¡¯s Council for Sustainable Development.

Double honour for the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering: at the Dandelion Entrepreneurship Awards, Professor Eleni Chatzi and Professor Ingo Burgert were each honoured with first prize in the categories ¡®Inspirer & Entrepreneurial Educator¡¯ and ¡®Connector & Venture Enabler¡¯, respectively.

Professor Peter M¨¹ller (D-INFK) has been named an ACM Fellow in recognition of his contributions to automated, modular program verification. Big congratulations!

Andr¨¦ Bardow, Professor of Energy and Process Systems Engineering at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Wilhelm Jost Memorial Medal for his achievements in physical chemistry. The award ceremony took place on 15 January at Georg August University in G?ttingen, Germany.

CELLSIUS,?an association of students at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Jakob Ackeret?Prize 2025. The award recognises the development of the H2-Sling, a?hydrogen-powered aircraft that, to the best of current knowledge, is the?world¡¯s first fully functional student-built hydrogen aircraft.

Andrew Jackson is Professor of Earth and Planetary Magnetism at D-EAPS. His instrumental work in the field of geomagnetism led to the creation of a model which has been used by "virtually every study of the historical magnetic field of the last 20 years". In receiving the Society's highest honour - which dates back 200 years - he joins the likes of Stephen Hawking, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Albert Einstein and Edwin Hubble.

Christophe Cop¨¦ret, Professor of Surface and Interfacial Chemistry at?D-CHAB, has been elected to the French Academy of Sciences. The Academy plays a?key role in promoting scientific dialogue.?