Taras Gerya wins the Alumni Award for Best Teaching
The?titular professor of geodynamics is?honoured?by students for his empathetic manner and enormous?expertise.?
Taras Gerya teaches numerical geodynamic modelling at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, among other subjects. On Saturday, 22 November 2025, he received the Alumni Award for Best Teaching, the highest prize awarded at ETH for teaching excellence, during ETH Day.
Gerya impresses with his enormous expertise and encourages all students to ask questions with his empathetic manner, according to the Earth Sciences Student Association (ERFA) in the video.
Alumni Award for Best Teaching
Every year, the ETH Zurich Student Union (VSETH) presents the Alumni Award for Best Teaching to a lecturer who has shown particular commitment to teaching. The winner is selected from among the winners of the Golden Owls. These are awarded annually by the VSETH once per department. The award was sponsored for the first time this year by the ETH Alumni Association.
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