Category: Awards + Honors
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ERC Starting Grants 2015
The European Research Council announced today that three members of the ETH WPF will receive an ERC starting grant: Vanessa Wood, Professor of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, for her project “Development of Quantitative Metrologies to Guide Lithium Ion Battery Manufacturing”, and Laura Nyström, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, for her project “Soluble dietary…
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Körber Prize 2015
Nicola Spaldin, Professor for Material Theory at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Körber Prize, one of the most prestigious scientific awards in Europe. She receive the EUR 750,000 Körber Prize for the creation of a new class of crystalline compounds that could revolutionise the world of computers.
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ERC Advanced Grants
Julia Vorholt, Professor of microbiology at ETH Zurich’s Institute of Microbiology and a pioneer in understanding the metabolism of bacteria and how they adapt to plants, received the ERC Advanced Grant for her project aiming at encouraging sustainable plant growth and diminish plant diseases.
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Charles Hard Townes Award
Ursula Keller, Director of the National Center of Competence for Research for Molecular Ultrafast Science and Technology and Full Professors at the Department of Physics since 1997, receives the prestigious Charles Hard Townes Award 2015 for her “seminal contributions in the fields of octave-spanning lasers, frequency comb technology, and high repetition-rate ultrafast semiconductor disc lasers”. The award…
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National Academy of Engineering Elect
Janet Hering, Director of EAWAG and Full Professor at the Department of Environmental Systems Science since 2007, was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for her contributions to understanding and practice of removal of inorganic contaminants from drinking water. The Election is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an…
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SNSF Starting Grant
Jennifer Rupp, SNSF Professor for Electrochemical Materials, received the SNSF Starting Grant for the Project “Beyond von-Neuman computing – Materials Functionalization and Integration of Three-dimensionally stacked Multiterminal Memristive Oxides Replacing Existing Transistors for Neuromorphic Computing”.
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Hedi Fritz-Niggli Visiting Professorship
Salomé Régine Leibundgut, SNSF Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology, Institute for Microbiology, has been awarded the Hedi Fritz-Niggli Visiting Professorship of University of Zurich. This professorship aims to heighten the visibility of women professors as role models for junior women academics. Professor Leibundgut conducts her scientific research about fungal infections at the VetSuisse Faculty of…
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Doron Prize 2014 and C.V. Riley Lecturer 2014
Silvia Dorn, Professor Emerita at the Department of Environmental Systems Science, received the Doron Prize 2014 endowed with CHF 100’000 for her seminal research work in Applied Entomology, which contributes significantly to a more sustainable world food system. In addition, she was appointed C.V. Riley Lecturer 2014 at University of Missouri.
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Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
Stefanie Engel, Full Professor at the Department of Environmental System Sciences until March 2015, has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for 2014.
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ETH Spark Award 2014
Jennifer Rupp, SNSF Professor at the Department of Materials, and her research team received the ETH Spark Award 2014 for having developed a powerful and energy-efficient data storage device for mobile electronic devices.