Honours and prizes
ETH Zurich is home to many high-calibre scientists working diligently in their specialist fields. The numerous honours and awards that ETH researchers receive for their scientific work shows just how successful they are.
Less is more – Daniel Schoess wins EHI/GS1 award
MSc MTEC graduate Daniel Schoess has won the EHI Foundation and GS1 Germany Science Award for his Master’s thesis in recognition of his innovative approach to predicting product interactions using minimal retail data.
Julia Vorholt receives the 2025 Novonesis Biotechnology Prize
Julia Vorholt, Professor of Microbiology at the Department of Biology, has been awarded the 2025 Novonesis Biotechnology Prize by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
George Haller receives the 2025 Lyapunov Award
George Haller, Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, has been honoured with the 2025 Lyapunov Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Ruzicka Prize 2024 for Murielle Delley
Towards sustainable catalysis: On February 14, 2025, Prof. Murielle Delley, professor at the University Basel, will receive the 2024 Ruzicka Prize for her work on the controlled surface modification of cobalt phosphide with sulfur.
Test-of-Time Award for Professor Ralf Jung
The ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2025) has recognised Professor Ralf Jung (Department of Computer Science) and his collaborators with a Test-of-Time Award for the paper "Iris: Monoids and Invariants as an Orthogonal Basis for Concurrent Reasoning". Big congratulations!
Andreas Krause named IEEE Fellow
Professor Andreas Krause from the Department of Computer Science has been named IEEE Fellow for his contributions to active sensing, Bayesian optimization and learning-based control. Big congratulations!
Four SNSF Advanced Grants go to ETH Zurich researchers
A biologist, a neuroscientist, a materials scientist and a physicist have each been awarded one of the prestigious grants of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
James Kirchner receives King Carl XVI Gustaf Professorship in Environmental Sciences
The Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf has appointed former WSL Director James Kirchner as the 30th holder of the King Carl XVI Gustaf Professorship in Environmental Sciences for the year 2025/26.
Honours and prizes awarded by ETH Zurich
The latest annual report lists the main prizes and awards that members of ETH Zurich have received for their research and educational work in international competition during the course of the reporting year.