Category: Awards + Honors
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ERC Starting Grants 2016
Two young women scientists from ETH Zurich and one Professor from EPFL are to receive ERC Starting Grants. The European Research Council offers these grants to support talented young researchers as they embark on their academic careers. The selected projects come from several different research areas. Katrien De Bock, Associate Professor of Exercise and Health,…
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Prof. Helma Wennemers wins the 2016 Pedler Award
Prof. Helma Wennemers is this year’s winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry Pedler Award: “For the profound and elegant discovery of small molecules that function like natural macromolecules” Read more
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New Co-Chair of Leadership Summit
Silvia Dorn, Professor Emerita at the Department of Environmental Systems Science, Silvia Dorn has been appointed as Co-Chair of the International Entomology Leadership Summit: Improving the Human Condition through Insect Science, by the Entomological Society of America (ESA). This Summit convenes leaders and key partners to take on great challenges worldwide to which entomology can make a unique…
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ETH Professor Petra Dittrich honored
Last week, the European Research Council (ERC) announced the winners of the Consolidator Grants for talented young researchers. Petra Dittrich, a researcher at ETH, is one of those to receive the much-coveted funding. ETH professor Petra Dittrich uses lab-on-a-chip technology to develop miniaturized analysis systems for application in biology and chemistry. She would like to…
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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”.
