Prizes and related events
ETH Zurich awards various prizes to excellent researchers, which are listed below. For further information also see the overview of research prizes awarded by other institutions and the news page for prizes and other honours awarded to or by ETH Zurich.
Latsis Prize and Symposium
The Fondation Latsis Internationale finances the annual ETH Zurich Latsis Prize, which is dedicated to young researchers. The foundation has also been supporting the annual Latsis Symposium since 1986.
Lopez-Loreta Prize / Grant
The Lopez-Loreta Prize has been in existence since 2018 and is given to excellent young researchers of ETH Zurich and three other European universities. The award is used to work on breakthrough scientific discoveries or promising technological innovations.
R?ssler Prize
The R?ssler Prize is awarded to a young professor of ETH Zurich on an annual base. Dr Max R?ssler established the prize to support promising young researchers in the middle of an accelerating career.
Chorafas Prize
Each year, the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation awards the Chorafas Prize to doctoral students of ETH Zurich in engineering, medical and natural sciences who have received a silver medal for their dissertation.
Ru?i?ka Prize
The annual Ru?i?ka Prize is awarded by ETH Zurich to honour research in chemistry conducted in Switzerland or by a Swiss citizen working abroad.
Spark Award
ETH Zurich gives the Spark Award for the most promising invention that was patented in the preceding year.
Latest prizes
Christophe Copéret elected member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences
Christophe Copéret, Professor of Surface and Interfacial Chemistry at D-CHAB, has been elected a member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) for his visionary advances in heterogeneous catalysis and surface chemistry.?
Andreas Krause elected as new SATW member
Andreas Krause (D-INFK), Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, has been appointed as a Full Member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) in 2026 – in recognition of his pioneering research in artificial intelligence.
Professors Menna El-Assady and Bernhard Sch?lkopf elected for UN AI Scientific Panel
Two ETH Zurich computer scientists, Menna El-Assady (D-INFK) and Bernhard Sch?lkopf (D-INFK), have been elected by the United Nations General Assembly to the newly established Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence, a landmark initiative assessing the opportunities and risks of AI.?