Previous Winners since 2017
2023
The winner of the 2023 ALEA Award is Thomas Meierhans, manager of the metal workshop in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering.
The two other finalists are Lavinia Heisenberg from the Department of Physics and Mark Tibbitt from the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering.
Congratulations!
2021
The winners in 2021 are Prof. Isabel Günther, Prof. Andreas Hierlemann and Prof. Torbjörn Netland. Congratulations!
2020
The winners in 2020 are Ulrike Kutay, Heini Wernli and Oliver Renn. Congratulations!
2019
Three women were the finalists for the ALEA Award
Out of a total of 43 nominees for the first time three women were the finalists for the ALEA Award in 2019: Ursula Müller, head of the ETH library (ETH Zentrum), Consuelo de Moraes, Professor at the Department of Environmental Systems Science, and Gabi Hug, Professor at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. Gabi Hug won the award for exemplary leadership
2018
At the togETHer staff party 2018, Laura Nyström, Professor at the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, was presented with the ALEA Award as ETH Zurich’s most exemplary leader. In addition to Laura Nyström, two other personalities from 46 nominated ETH Zurich leaders made it into the final: Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Professor at the Chair of Planning Landscape and Urban Systems, and Klaas Stephan, Professor of Translational Neuromodelling.
2017
Renato Renner, ETH Professor for Theoretical Physics and head of the research group for Quantum Information Theory at the Department of Physics, has won the first ALEA Award of ETH Zurich.
