Category: Awards + Honors
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Gisou van der Goot is elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Congratulations to Gisou van der Goot for being elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This election is in recognition of her contributions to cell biology and her role in advancing the understanding of how cells interact with the environment. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an honorary society that brings…
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Paola Picotti wins Otto Nägeli Prize for Medical Research
Congratulations to Paola Picotti for winning the Otto Nägeli Prize in Medical Research for her development of a technology capable of analysing thousands of protein structures simulaneously. Her research group has focused on methods of scanning protein shapes and developing a technology that was faster and more sensitive at detecting physiological and pathological changes. The…
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Suliana Manley is co-winner of ERC Synergy Grant
Congratulations to Suliana Manley for winning the ERC Synergy Grant alongside two colleagues for their collaborative work on the joint project MitoContact. The project investigates how mitochondria come into contact and communicate with other cell components. The ERC Synergy grant is bestowed upon projects that require the collaboration of multiple researchers to work on it…
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Eleni Chatzi wins Dandelion Entrepreneurship Award
Congratulations to Eleni Chatzi for winning this year’s Dandelion Entrepreneurship Award in the category „Inspirer & Entrepreneurial Educator“. The Dandelion Entrepreneurship Award recognizes professors who demonstrate a strong commitment to fostering entrepreneurship. Eleni Chatzi’s research advances data-driven methods to observe, assess, and predict the behaviour of infrastructure and other complex systems, integrating sensor technologies, machine…
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Ursula Keller and Anastasia Ailamaki elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
Congratulations to Ursula Keller and Anastasia Ailamaki for being elected earlier this year to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Ursula Keller was elected for her contributions to ultrafast lasers and attosecond technologies and Anastasia Ailamaki for her contributions to database systems and their performance evaluation. Prospective members are nominated by current members based on…
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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…