ETH Zurich Latsis Prize

The ETH Zurich Latsis Prize is worth CHF 25,000. It is awarded to a single person and cannot be divided.

Only persons can be nominated whose age is below 40 years on 30 April of the running year. Nominations beyond the level of assistant professor are not considered.

Candidates must be proposed by a professor of ETH Zurich. Self-nominations are not possible.

The proposal must be written in English and contain the following documents:  

• cover letter giving a detailed justification and signed by nominating person and head of department
  
• CV of the nominee, including birth date
• list of nominee's scientific publications
  
• three most important publications
  
• List of potential reviewers (5 external, 1 from another department at ETH who is not a current research commission member (contact information to be entered directly in eResearch)

Applications must be submitted electronically in pdf format using the ETH Zurich grant application system (eResearch). The ETH Zurich Research Commission is responsible for the evaluation of applications.

More details can be found in the Download guidelines (PDF, 16 KB).

Submission deadline is 1 March at 17:00 Swiss local time each year.

If a submission deadline falls on a weekend, it will be postponed to the following Monday, 17:00 Swiss local time.

Within two months after the deadline, nominators and nominees are informed whether they will be invited to an interview, which usually takes place in June. Final funding decisions are announced about four months after the submission deadline.