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Sarbajit Banerjee receives the Royal Society of Chemistry¡¯s Centenary Prize for original insights into structure and chemical bonding far from equilibrium, and for excellence in communicating chemical principles underpinning clean energy to the public.?

The Golden Lion for the best national contribution at the 2025 Architecture Biennale in Venice was awarded to the Bahrain Pavilion ¨C a project focused on heat-adapted architecture with original contributions from Professor Alexander Puzrin. In total, five projects involving the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich are on display at the Venice Biennale. They illustrate how research and technology can pave new ways for sustainable construction.

The French-American chemist Marie Perrin has been selected as one of the ten finalists for the European Patent Office¡¯s Young Inventors Prize 2025. She received the prize in the category "World builder". Her innovation enables the environmentally friendly recovery of the rare earth element europium from e-waste like discarded fluorescent lamps.

The Associate Professor at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST) has been accepted as a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Congratulations!

Research fellow Thea Klaeboe Aarrestad was awarded the Young Experimental Physicist Prize from the European Physical Society for her outstanding contributions to experimental particle physics.

Among 90 exceptional researchers, Ursula Keller, Professor at the?Institute for Quantum Electronics, has been awarded a ¡°Foreign Fellowship¡± of the Royal Society. The expert in Ultrafast Laser Physics is the only scientist from Switzerland to receive this honour this year.?

Professor Peter M¨¹ller and his co-author have been awarded the prestigious ETAPS Test of Time Award for their paper ¡°A Basis for Verifying Multi-threaded Programs¡±. The ETAPS Test of Time Award has been established to recognise outstanding papers published more than 10 years ago. Congratulations!

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences inducts Nina Buchmann and Nicola Spaldin.

The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has awarded ETH Zurich Materials scientist, Nicola Spaldin, the Carus Medal 2024 for her outstanding research work. The award will be presented on 22 May 2025 in Schweinfurt, Germany.

Ulrike Lohmann, Professor for Atmospheric Physics at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the 2025 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal by the European Geosciences Union (EGU) for her research on cloud-climate interactions. Her work combines microscale processes and satellite data with global models to assess the radiative impact of clouds on the Earth system.

Eva J. Meeus, post-doctoral student in the Morandi Group at ETH Zurich, has been selected for the global CAS Future Leaders program ¨C a prestigious and highly competitive program that provides opportunities for early career scientists to learn leadership skills and engage in scientific discourse.

MSc MTEC graduate Daniel Schoess has won the EHI Foundation and GS1 Germany Science Award for his Master¡¯s thesis in recognition of his innovative approach to predicting product interactions using minimal retail data.

George Haller, Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, has been honoured with the 2025 Lyapunov Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Towards sustainable catalysis: On February 14, 2025, Prof. Murielle Delley, professor at the University Basel, will receive the 2024 Ruzicka Prize for her work on the controlled surface modification of cobalt phosphide with sulfur. ?

The ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2025) has recognised Professor Ralf Jung (Department of Computer Science) and his collaborators with a Test-of-Time Award for the paper "Iris: Monoids and Invariants as an Orthogonal Basis for Concurrent Reasoning". Big congratulations!

The Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf has appointed former WSL Director James Kirchner as the 30th holder of the King Carl XVI Gustaf Professorship in Environmental Sciences for the year 2025/26.

The ALEA and Diversity Awards, initiated by AVETH, were presented with VPPL at a joint ceremony on 26 November 2024. The awards recognise individuals and groups who exemplify our understanding of leadership and support our commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Raffaello D¡¯Andrea, ETH Professor of Dynamic Systems and Control, has been inducted into the Logistics Hall of Fame. Together with Mick Mountz and Peter Wurman, he has revolutionized the ¡°goods to person¡± concept.

Aldo Steinfeld, Professor for Renewable Energy Carriers in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, received the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's SolarPACES conference in Rome together with Manuel Romero from the IMDEA Energy Institute in Madrid.

On May 15, ETH Zurich will honor particularly innovative teaching projects with the KITE Award for the fifth time. In a short series, we present the three projects that made it to the final.

On May 15, ETH Zurich will honor particularly innovative teaching projects with the KITE Award for the fith time. In a short series, we present the three projects that made it to the final.

On May 15, ETH Zurich will honor particularly innovative teaching projects with the KITE Award for the fifth time. In a short series, we present the three projects that made it to the final.

Florian Fuchs won first prize for the Young Researcher Award at the RailDresden Conference 2025 for a paper co-authored with Bernardo Martin-Iradi and Professor Francesco Corman. Additionally, the team also won the Second Best Paper Award.

Kevin Riehl together with his team the Gradient Descenters won the second prize in one of the most renowed AI/ML hackatons in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

Matthias Andrews Garc¨ªa receives the Prix LITRA for his work on time reduction potential through a continental-scale schedule optimisation of long-distance international passenger rail corridors in Europe.

Over 2,000 students, researchers, entrepreneurs and industry representatives discussed the latest trends in artificial intelligence at the AI+X Summit 2023. Popular topics included the influence of generative AI, AI legislation, AI in medicine and trustworthy AI.

This year, the Wolfgang Pauli Lectures will highlight the CRISPR technology, its origins and its current applications in research and medicine. The speaker is Jennifer Doudna, the 2020 Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry.

The new laboratory and research building in Basel has been awarded the "Iconic Awrad 2023" in the category "Innovative Architecture - Public / Culture / Education".

Switzerland currently has only limited access to Horizon Europe, the world¡¯s largest funding programme for research and innovation. Here¡¯s why this will become problematic for Switzerland as a centre of research and innovation in the long term.

Can machines acquire capabilities that remind us of (or even exceed) general-purpose intelligent reasoning in humans? This question will be explained by computer scientist Sanjeev Arora from Princeton University at today¡¯s Paul Bernays Lecture in the ETH main building.