Honours and prizes

Christophe Cop¨¦ret, 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 (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 ¨C in recognition of his pioneering research in artificial intelligence.

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.?

Outi Supponen, Professor at the Institute of Fluid Dynamics in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the 2026 Young Scientist Award by the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). The ESRF honours her for pioneering contributions to experimental multiphase fluid dynamics.

Gerald Haug, Professor of Climate Geochemistry at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and former President of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, has been appointed to the German Federal Government¡¯s Council for Sustainable Development.

Double honour for the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering: at the Dandelion Entrepreneurship Awards, Professor Eleni Chatzi and Professor Ingo Burgert were each honoured with first prize in the categories ¡®Inspirer & Entrepreneurial Educator¡¯ and ¡®Connector & Venture Enabler¡¯, respectively.

Professor Peter M¨¹ller (D-INFK) has been named an ACM Fellow in recognition of his contributions to automated, modular program verification. Big congratulations!