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.

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.

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).

The steps required to submit an application in the web-based ETH Zurich grant application system eResearch are outlined below.  

Please note that you can interrupt the processing of the application at any time and resume the work at a later date, provided you do so before the submission deadline. You can find instructions on how to do this at the bottom of the page.

Submitting a nomination:  

1. Prepare the requested documents in pdf format.
2. Please register on eResearch with your ETH email address (username(at)ethz.ch) and set a password to create an account. This step only needs to be done when using eResearch for the first time. Having registered once, you can log in with your eResearch login details.
3. Click on “My Applications” in the navigation bar on the left to start a new application. (Alternatively, you can open a new application in the section “New Grant Application” on the homepage). 
   
4. Then click on “New Application”. You will be directed to a page where all open calls are available for selection. Select the funding instrument and click on “Apply”. You will now be in the edit mode of the newly opened application form. Please note the reference number of the application in the upper left corner.
5. Fill in all mandatory fields and upload the required attachments (marked with a red dot) by navigating from page to page using the “Next” and “Previous” buttons. Be sure you save the information you entered by clicking “Save”. As soon as all mandatory fields of a page are filled in, the icon in the sidebar on the left will turn green.
6. To enter reviewer suggestions, please note that a minimum of five external reviewer suggestions and one from another departmen at ETH is required.
   
7. Once you have completed the application form, click on “Validation Summary" on the left. The “Validation Summary” page will then list all mandatory fields that have not yet been filled in.
   
8. Fill in the missing fields and validate again. After successful validation, exit the edit mode by clicking “Save And Close”. 
9. Submit the application form by clicking the “Submit” button at the bottom right of the application summary page. Please scroll down if you cannot see the button. Changes are no longer possible after the application has been submitted. If you have submitted an application in error, please contact eresearch-support@ethz.ch.
   
10. Create a PDF file of your application for your personal records. To do this, click on “View/print” in the “PDF the application” box on the right side of the same page.
    

To interrupt the processing of the application, you must:

1. Exit the edit mode of the application by clicking “Save And Close” and then log out on the left side of the page.
   
2. To continue working on an existing application, log in to the platform with your eResearch login details, go to “My Applications” on the left side of the page, and then select the respective application by clicking on the title or on the “View details” icon on the right.
   
3. Click “Edit” on the right side of the application summary page to enter the edit mode. Now proceed to edit your application.