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Professor Kay Axhausen receives the IATBR Lifetime Achievement Award
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Professor Kay Axhausen received the IATBR Lifetime Achievement Award for his fundamental and sustained contributions to travel behaviour research and his influence on transportists through writing, teaching, service and nurturing of younger professionals.
Adriano Rutz wins the Swiss National ORD Prize
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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.
Shima Rajabali wins Hans-Eggenberger-Prize
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For her doctoral thesis on Ultrastrong light-matter interaction at the nanoscale, Shima Rajabali, receives the Hans-?Eggenberger-Prize. The thesis was done at Quantum Optoelectronics lab of the Professors Jér?me Faist and Giacomo Scalari at the Department of Physics of ETH Zurich.
Marko Bjelonic wins Hans-Eggenberger-Prize
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Marko Bjelonic, postdoctoral researcher at the Robotic Systems Lab of Professor Marco Hutter at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering of ETH Zurich, receives the Hans-Eggenberger-Prize for his doctoral thesis in wheeled-legged robotics.
Antonio Lanzavecchia wins Ernst Jung Medal for Medicine
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Antonio Lanzavecchia, emeritus and former member of the Institute of Microbiology of the D-?BIOL, is given the award for his life's work on innate and acquired immunity. The Ernst Jung Symposium and award ceremony will be held virtually on 20 May 2021.
Andreas Wallraff receives Helmholtz International Fellow Award 2020
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Professor Andreas Wallraff (D-PHYS) receives one of the 2020 Helmholtz International Fellow Awards of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres. The award serves also to expand an existing cooperation with scientists at the Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany).
Klaus Ensslin co-receipient of the EPS Edison Volta Prize 2020
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Professor Klaus Ensslin (D-PHYS) has been awarded the 2020 Edison Volta Prize of the European Physical Society (EPS), jointly with Dieter Weiss (University of Regensburg) and Jurgen Smet (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research), "for their seminal contributions to condensed matter nano-science".
Randall Platt listed by MIT as one of the top technology innovators in the world under the age of 35
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The annual list of most promising inventions this year includes Randall Platt and his lab’s work on transcriptional recording, a CRISPR-?based technology which endows cells with a synthetic memory recording molecular events across time. In the words of MIT technology review: “a technology that has the potential to transform our understanding of a number of important biological processes”.
ETH mathematician Joaquim Serra receives prestigious EMS Prize
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The European Mathematical Society has awarded one of its prestigious EMS Prizes to Joaquim Serra, currently SNF Ambizione Fellow at the Department of Mathematics (D-MATH) of ETH Zurich. EMS Prizes recognise young researchers not older than 35 years for their excellent contributions in mathematics.
2020 Eppendorf Award for Young Investigators goes to Randall Platt
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Randall Platt, head of the Biological Engineering Lab, receives the 25th Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators for his pioneering work developing a method to record timelines of gene expression events using a CRISPR-Cas system. Randall’s work focuses on living diagnostics - engineered bacteria that act as biographers of their environment by continuously recording gene expression information.
Benjamin Franklin Medal for Michele Parrinello
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Michele Parrinello, Professor for Computational Science (D-CHAB), has received the 2020 Benjamin Franklin Medal together with Roberto Car from Princeton University for inventing an efficient computational method by combining molecular dynamics simulation and electronic structure calculations.
Hans Eggenberger Prize 2019 to Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus
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Dr. Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus has been awarded the 2019 Hans Eggenberger Prize for groundbreaking research performed in the Quantum Optoelectronics Group of Prof. Jér?me Faist (D-PHYS). The Hans Eggenberger foundation further finances part of her current research at Harvard University, where she is a postdoctoral fellow.
Ursula Keller receives the highest award of the Optical Society
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The Optical Society,?the leading global professional association in optics and photonics, awards Prof. Ursula Keller (D-PHYS) its highest honours, the 2020 Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize, in recognition of her fundamental contributions to ultrafast lasers technology.
SPIE Gold Medal 2020 awarded to Ursula Keller
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The International Society for Optics and Photonics, SPIE, awards the 2020 Gold Medal, the highest honour the society bestows, to Ursula Keller, Professor of?Ultrafast Laser Physics at the Department of Physics, for her "career-long pioneering contributions in ultrafast science and technology".
Animal welfare award for Julia Boos
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The doctoral student at the Department of Biosystems developed an in vitro process that tests new medications for adverse effects on embryos. Now she has been honoured with a top international prize for alternatives to animal testing.
MARSS Big-on-Small Award for Pané Vidal
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Salvador Pané, senior scientist at Professor Bradley Nelson’s Multi-Scale Robotics Lab at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, was honored with the Big-on-Small Award at the International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS).
Honorary Degree from Heriot-Watt University for Ursula Keller
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Ursula Keller, professor at the Department of Physics, was recognised with an Honorary Degree from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Matthias Troyer: Honored for his Work on Quantum Many-Body Systems
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The 2019 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics will be presented to Austrian Matthias Troyer, a professor at ETH Zurich and quantum computing researcher at software company Microsoft. ?
Awards for robotics experts
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Roland Siegwart, Bradley Nelson and Marco Hutter, professors at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, are honored by the Robotics and Automation Society.
Jér?me Faist awarded the 2019 Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics
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The 2019 Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics will be awarded to ETH physics professor Jér?me Faist, head of the?Quantum Optoelectronics Group at the Institute for Quantum Electronics
Professor David Steurer awarded ERC Consolidator Grant
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David Steurer has been awarded with the ERC Consolidator Grant for his project in the field of algorithmic methods.
Professor Andreas Krause awarded ERC Consolidator Grant
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Andreas Krause has been awarded with the Consolidator Grant for his project in the field of learning systems.
2019 IEEE Edison Medal to Ursula Keller
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The 2019 IEEE Edison Medal will be awarded to ETH physics professor Ursula Keller, head of the Ultrafast Laser Physics Group at the Institute for Quantum Electronics, for her career achievements.
Janet Hering to receive 2018 NWRI Clarke Prize
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The National Water Research Institute (NWRI) awarded Janet Hering the 2018 NWRI Clarke Prize for outstanding achievement in the field of water science and technology. The ETH Zurich researcher and director of Eawag is thus one of the most influential water researchers in the world. ?
Cristina Müller receives the Marie Curie Award
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Cristina Müller, Senior Scientist at the Center for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, received this year’s Marie Curie Award for her research on Terbium-161 based therapy of prostate cancer, presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM).
Sereina Riniker receives the Latsis Prize 2018 of ETH Zurich
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Sereina Riniker receives the Latsis Prize 2018 of ETH Zurich for her groundbreaking contributions to the methodological development and applications of molecular dynamics simulations.
Dr. Petar Tsankov wins John Atanasoff Award
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Dr. Petar Tsankov from the Secure, Reliable, and Intelligent Systems Lab (SRI) has received the John Atanasoff President's Award in Bulgaria.
Jeffrey W. Bode receives the Mukaiyama Award 2018
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Jeffrey W. Bode, Professor of Organic Chemistry (D-CHAB), receives the Mukaiyama Award 2018 for his outstanding achievements in the field of Synthetic Organic Chemistry. The prize is awarded by the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan.
Dieter Seebach receives the Arthur C. Cope Award 2019
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Dieter Seebach, Professor of Organic Chemistry (D-CHAB), receives the Arthur C. Cope Award 2019 for his outstanding achievements in the field of Organic Chemistry. This is one of the American Chemical Society's most prestigious awards for Organic Chemistry.
Thomas Van Boeckel is new Branco Weiss Fellow
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The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science has selected Dr. Thomas Van Boeckel as one of six new fellows. The programme offers young researchers the opportunity to pursue a research topic of their choosing for up to five years following completion of their PhD.
Johan Robertsson receives the Conrad Schlumberger Award
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Johan Robertsson, Professor for Applied Geophysics (D-ERDW), has received the 2018 Conrad Schlumberger Award of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), in recognition of his innovative and pioneering contribution in subsurface imaging and wave modelling.
Vening Meinesz Medal for Markus Rothacher
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Markus Rothacher, full professor at ETH Zurich’s Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry receives the ?Vening Meinesz Medal?, one of the most prestigious awards in his research field.
IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies for Jér?me Faist
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The 2018 IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies will be awarded to ETH physics professor Jér?me Faist, head of the?Quantum Optoelectronics Group at the Institute for Quantum Electronics, and to Prof. Frank Tittel of Rice University (US).
Labour market expert Michael Siegenthaler receives SIAF Award 2017
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Dr Michael Siegenthaler, from the KOF Swiss Economic Institute of ETH Zurich receives the 2017 SIAF Award. The labour market expert is being honoured for his outstanding dissertation on the subject of "The Swiss Labour Market".
Charpak–Ritz Prize 2018 to Roland Horisberger
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The Charpak–Ritz Prize 2018, which is jointly awarded by the Swiss Physical Society?and the?French Physical Society, has been awarded to?Roland Horisberger, Professor at the Department of Physics (D-PHYS).
Médéric Diard receives postdoctoral award of the Robert Koch Foundation
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The Postdoctoral Award for Microbiology goes to Médéric Diard in recognition of his work on the pathogenesis and ecology of enterobacteria.
Robert Koch Award 2017 for Antonio Lanzavecchia
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The Robert Koch Foundation is jointly awarding the 2017 Robert Koch Award to Professors Antonio Lanzavecchia and Rafi Ahmed. The award recognizes the two immunologists’ pioneering research on regulation of immune system and their ground-breaking contributions on the development of new vaccines and immunotherapies.
Basler Wissenschaftspreis 2017 for Hans Gersbach
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Hans Gersbach (D-MTEC), Professor for Macroeconomics: Innovation and Policy, has been awarded the 2017 ?Wissenschaftspreis? of the city of Basel for his outstanding interdisciplinary work on topics of great relevance for society and economic policy.
2017 Shingo Research Award for Torbj?rn Netland
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Torbj?rn Netland, Professor for Production and Operations Management (D-MTEC), receives the 2017 Shingo Research Award for the edited book ?The Routledge Companion to Lean Management?. He shares the prize with co-editor Dr Daryl J. Powell.
Ursula Keller receives Weizmann Women & Science Award
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Ursula Keller, Professor at the Institute for Quantum Electronics (D-PHYS), received today one of the two 2017 Weizmann Women & Science Awards "for pioneering and seminal contributions to ultrafast lasers technology and important breakthroughs in attosecond science".
ETH-ITS Senior Fellow Claire Voisin receives the Shaw prize 2017
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Claire Voisin, of the Collège de France, currently Senior Fellow at the ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies, receives the 2017 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences. She shares the prize with János Kollár, of Princeton University.
Michele Parrinello Wins the Dreyfus Prize
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Michele Parrinello, Professor at the D-CHAB, has won the 2017 Dreyfus Prize, conferred this year in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry. Parrinello is the first recipient of the award in the Chemical Sciences outside of the United States.
Sustainable Energy Award 2017 for Prof. Pérez-Ramírez
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The Sustainable Energy Award is given biennally by the Royal Society of Chemistry for sustainable research on chemicals and fuels from renewable energy sources. This year's award goes to Prof. Pérez-Ramírez from the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences (D-CHAB).
2017 MERAC Prize to Kevin Schawinski
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The 2017 MERAC Prize of the?European Astronomical Society for the Best Early Career Researcher in Observational Astrophysics goes to Kevin Schawinski, Professor of the Astrophysics of Galaxies and Black Holes (D-PHYS).
Google-Award for Roland Siegwart
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Roland Siegwart, Head of the Autonomous Systems Lab of ETH Zurich, was awarded the prestigious Google Faculty Research Award 2016 for his research in the field of Machine Perception.
The Lelio Orci Award 2016 goes to Markus Aebi
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Markus Aebi, professor at the Institute of Microbiology (D-BIOL), has won the Lelio Orci Award 2016. He has been honoured for his achievements in the field of glycobiology. Aebi is the second recipient of the award.
Dani Or honoured with the John Dalton Medal
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Dani Or, Professor of Soil and Terrestrial Environmental Physics at the Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS), has been awarded the John Dalton Medal by the European Geosciences Union (EGU) for his research in the field of hydrology.
Simon Lilly awarded the Herschel Medal
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Simon Lilly, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics at the Department of Physics (D-PHYS), has been honoured with the Herschel Medal 2017. The Royal Astronomical Society (UK) has recognised his outstanding achievements in observational astrophysics.