Honours and prizes

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.

Nine researchers from ETH Zurich have just been awarded Starting Grants from the European Research Council (ERC). This is a positive signal for Zurich as a research location.

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.

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.

This year's prize from the Micius Quantum Foundation celebrates quantum simulation in optical lattices, a field which Esslinger and his group in the Department of Physics have been spearheading from the very beginning.

The grant will allow Degen and his group in the Department of Physics to develop a photonic integrated circuit for single-photon-emitter excitation and detection, with future commercial use in optical quantum sensing and communication.

Paolo Arosio, professor at the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, receives an ERC Proof of Concept grant to develop a technology for?the rapid, specific, and scalable isolation of vesicles and molecules from biofluids with applications in diagnostics and disease monitoring as well as drug manufacturing.