The latest honours and prizes

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.

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!

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, 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).