Category: News
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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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New appointments and promotions of women faculty
Professor Marcy Zenobi-Wong, currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, was promoted as Associate Professor of Tissue Engineering and Biofabrication. New Appointments at ETH Zurich: Professor Daniela Domeisen, currently Junior Professor at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany, as Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Predictability. Professor An Fonteyne, currently Professor…
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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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General Assembly 2017
The general assembly of the ETH Women Professors Forum took place on March 29 simultaneously at ETH Zurich and EPFL with a video link between them. Key issue: expanding membership to include female researchers at one of the four Research Institutes of the ETH Domain holding a professor title at a Swiss Higher Education Institution…
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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!
