Category: Awards + Honors
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2017 ERC Starting Grant awardees announced
Marie The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the awarding of its Starting Grants to 406 early-career researchers throughout Europe. The funding, worth €605 million in total and up to €1.5 million per grant, will enable them to set up their own research teams and pursue ground-breaking ideas. The share of women amongst the new…
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Olga Sorkine-Hornung wins Rössler Prize
Computer scientist Olga Sorkine has won this year’s Rössler Prize – a research award of CHF 200’000 – for her work in the field of computer graphics. Since 2009, the Rössler Prize has been awarded annually to young professors at ETH Zurich who are building their careers. The award is sponsored by ETH alumnus and…
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Prof. Riniker receives the 9th Silver Jubilee Award
The Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society (MGMS) recognises Prof. Riniker’s ongoing research work on the applications of molecular dynamics in biomolecular systems with the 9th Silver Jubilee Award. Congratulations! Visit D-CHAB Website
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Nicola Spaldin received L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award
ETH Professor Nicola Spaldin honoured in March for her revolutionary research in the field of materials science. In Paris, she is set to receive the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science award for Europe, which carries prize money of 100,000 euros. Congratulations! Whatch the speaches of Nicola Spaldin
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Prof. Melanie Blokesch appointed as HHMI International Research Scholar
HHMI, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation announce the selection of 41 International Research Scholars, early-career scientists poised to advance biomedical research across the globe. Melanie Blokesch studies Vibrio cholerae, a water-dwelling bacterium that wreaks havoc in the gut and causes the diarrhoeal disease cholera. Her team…
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Nicola Spaldin has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Nicola Spaldin, professor at Materials Theory (D-MATL), has been awarded a fellowship granted by the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. The admission to the Society will take place at a formal admissions day ceremony on Friday July 14, 2017. Congratulations!
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Ursula Keller receives Weizmann Women and Science Award
Ursula Keller received the award for pioneering and seminal contributions to ultrafast lasers technology and important breakthroughs in attosecond science. She has been a co-founder and board member for Time-Bandwidth Products (acquired by JDSU in 2014) and for GigaTera (acquired by Time-Bandwidth in 2003). Her research interests are exploring and pushing the frontiers in ultrafast…
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Prof. Melanie Blokesch awarded with an ERC Consolidator Grant
Melanie Blokesch (Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, EPFL) has been awarded with an ERC consolidator award for 2018-2023. Her Proposal was entitled: Pathoecology of Vibrio cholerae to better understand cholera index cases in endemic areas. Melanie had previously been awarded an ERC starting grant (for 2013-2018). Congratulations!
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Prof. Aude Billard awarded with an ERC Advanced Grant
Prof. Aude Billard has been awarded with an ERC Advanced Grant for her proposal entitled: Skill Acquisition in Humans and Robots. Congratulations!
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Prof. Bernier-Latmani awarded with ERC Consolidator Grant
Prof. Rizlan Bernier-Latmani has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for her proposal entitled: UNEARTH Uranium isotope fractionation : a novel biosignature to identify microbial metabolism on early Earth. Congratulations!
