The latest honours and prizes
Spark Award 2024 for Marie Amélie Perrin and Victor Mougel
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.
Menna El-Assady honoured with Significant New Researcher Award
Professor Mennatallah El-Assady, head of the Interactive Visualization and Intelligence Augmentation Lab at the Department of Computer Science (D-INFK), has been awarded the 2024 Visualization Significant New Researcher Award at the IEEE VIS Conference. The prize honours her ground-breaking work at the intersection of visualization and machine learning. Congratulations!
Ralph Shangraw Memorial Award for Jean-Christoph Leroux
The Ralph Shangraw Memorial Award is awarded by the IPEC Americas Foundation for outstanding research in the study of excipients or excipient-related technology.
Nicolas Gruber receives Roger Revelle Medal
Nicolas Gruber, Professor for Environmental Physics at the Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS) at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Roger Revelle Medal by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for Torsten Hoefler
Professor Torsten Hoefler (D-INFK), Head of the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory at the Department of Computer Science, has been awarded the prestigious Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for his research in the field of computer science. Congratulations!