Category: News
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Report of the Commission on the Status of Women Faculty at EPFL – published 22.07.2020
Link to report EPFL article DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3960658
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Congratulations to Eleni Chatzi for being awarded the 2020 Walter L. Huber Research Prize
Congratulations! ETH Zurich official news. For more details on this prestigious award please check here.
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Congratulations to Prof. Viola Vogel on her election as a foreign member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering!
National Academy of Engineering official list.
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Intermediate Evaluation of the ETH Domain – reports now available
ETH Domain Intermediate Evaluation: 2 out of 22 recommendations address diversity. Recommendation 7: Attracting Women to STEM Disciplines Recommendation 19: Diversity The documents have been published on the website of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI.
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New professorial appointments and promotions
Appointment at ETH Zurich: Professor Ursula Renold (*1961), currently Senior Scientist at the Swiss Economic Institute (KOF) at ETH Zurich, as Full Professor of Education Systems. During her many years’ service as Director of the Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology, Ursula Renold has made a substantial contribution to the expansion of the…
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New ERC Consolidator Grants
Congratulations to our colleagues! GOUN Elena (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) PICOTTI Paola (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) WETTER SLACK Emma (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) For further information, see: ERC Consolidator Grants
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Maryna Viazovska receives the 2019 Fermat Prize
The 2019 Fermat prize in mathematics has been awarded to Professor Maryna Viazovska for her solution to the sphere packing problem. The Fermat prize was created in 1989 and is awarded by the Institut de Mathematiques de Toulouse, hometown of Pierre Fermat. More details here.
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Prof. Ruth Signorell receives the Humboldt Prize
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded a Humboldt Research Award to Ruth Signorell in recognition of her outstanding past accomplishments in research and teaching. Congratulations!
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Congratulations to Prof. Ruth Signorel for being awarded the 2019 Mildred Dresselhaus Prize
Ruth Signorell (ETH Zurich) was awarded the 2019 Mildred Dresselhaus Prize (senior award) from the Centre of Ultrafast Imaging (CUI) in Hamburg, and in addition a Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship at the CUI.