Category: Awards + Honors
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Laura Heyderman wins Charpak-Ritz Prize 2026
Congratulations to Laura Heyderman for winning the Charpak-Ritz Prize for her innovations in nanomagnetic devices, her observations of emergent magnetic monopoles and phase transitions in artificial spin ice and the development of synchrotron x-ray magnetic tomography. The Charpak-Ritz Prize, a joint prize between the Société Française de Physique and the Swiss Physical Society, is awarded…
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Past panel discussion and Marie Heim-Vögtlin Prize event for Dr. Anna Feller
The WPF and the SNSF jointly hosted an event on November 25, 2025 surrounding Dr. Anna Feller receiving the Marie Heim-Vögtlin Prize. A panel discussion was held on the topic „Career perspectives for postdocs“ with the panelists Dr. Anna Feller, Prof. Dr. Verdon Taylor, Dr. Regina Notz and led by Prof. Dr. Rachel Grange, with…
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Janet Hering awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Basel
Congratulations to Janet Hering for being awarded an honorary Doctorate from the University of Basel. At their Dies Academicus, the Faculty of Medicine awarded her this honorary doctorate for her research into drinking water quality and the relationship between environment and health.
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Sabine Süsstrunk wins UK Royal Photographic Society Award
Congratulations to Sabine Süsstrunk for winning the UK Royal Photographic Society Award for Imaging Science. The Royal Photographic Society has hosted the world’s longest running photography prize for 147 years and this year they are recognizing Sabine Süsstrunk’s notable contribution to the advancement and application of imaging science. Her research focuses on computational photography and…
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Sonia Seneviratne to receive German Environmental Award
Congratulations to Sonia Seneviratne who is set to receive the German Environmental Award bestowed by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt – DBU). The award is given to people whose work has greatly contributed to the understanding of climate change, in the case of Sonia Seneviratne both in her research and her activities…
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Lesya Shchutska wins Latsis Prize 2023
Congratulations to Prof. Lesya Shchutska for winning the Swiss Science Latsis Prize 2023. Shchutska is the second member of the WPF to receive the prize in a row, following Prof. Carmela Troncoso. The prize is awarded to four young scientists a year for their exceptional contributions to science at a Swiss university. Read more on…
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Nicola Spaldin receives the Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award
Congratulations to the laureate of the 2023 Lise Meitner Award: Prof. Nicola Spaldin, who has been awarded for “Fundamental theoretical contributions and discoveries in the field of multiferroics”. The Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award is awarded by the Gothenburg Physics Centre to a scientist who has made a breakthrough discovery in physics. “Nicola Spaldin’s ground-breaking theoretical contributions…
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SNSF Consolidator Grants 2022 for Rachel Grange and Julia Schmale
Congratulations to Prof. Rachel Grange and Prof. Julia Schmale for receiving the SNSF Consolidator, where women researchers lead 14 of the 30 awarded projects. Due to Switzerland’s current status as a non-associated third country in the Horizon Europe Framework Programme, the SNSF launched the transitional measure “SNSF Consolidator Grants 2022” on behalf of the Swiss…
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“Swiss Nobel Prize” for Ursula Keller
The Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist goes to Prof. Ursula Keller for her groundbreaking work in short-time laser physics and quantum mechanics. The professor of experimental physics at the Institute for Quantum Electronics at ETH Zurich has repeatedly pushed the boundaries of ultrafast laser physics with both theoretical models and experimental results. Read more on…