Honours and prizes

The ALEA and Diversity Awards, initiated by AVETH, were presented with VPPL at a joint ceremony on 26 November 2024. The awards recognise individuals and groups who exemplify our understanding of leadership and support our commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Raffaello D’Andrea, ETH Professor of Dynamic Systems and Control, has been inducted into the Logistics Hall of Fame. Together with Mick Mountz and Peter Wurman, he has revolutionized the “goods to person” concept.

Bruno Sudret, Professor of Risk, Safety, and Uncertainty Quantification at the ETH-Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, has won the Humboldt Research Award. Sudret receives the award in recognition of his academic achievements and contributions to the field of uncertainty quantification. In addition to the personal prize money, he will be invited to carry out a research project of his choice in collaboration with specialist colleagues in Germany.

The prize for the most promising invention of the past year goes to Marie Amélie Perrin and Victor Mougel. They have developed a method that enables rare earth elements to be efficiently recovered from electrical waste.

The prize for the most promising invention of the past year goes to Marie Amélie Perrin and Victor Mougel. They have developed a method that enables rare earth elements to be efficiently recovered from electrical waste.

The XPRIZE Rainforest competition acknowledged ETH Zurich-led team for its development and deployment of novel, autonomous technologies that enable near real-time insights about biodiversity.

ETH Professor Yiwen Chu is investigating how to apply quantum states to ever larger objects. This should help to gain new insights into physics and develop more efficient technologies. She has now been awarded the ETH Zurich Latsis Prize for her outstanding research.