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A great honour for Nora L¨¹then, a?postdoctoral researcher?in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich: She has received an Early Career Prize from the US Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for her mathematical research on the acceleration of computer simulations.

This year's award from the Division of Quantum Information of the American Physical Society recognised the quality and significance of the doctoral research carried out by ETH Zurich alumnus Dr Nathan Lacroix, who completed his PhD in the group of Professor Andreas Wallraff.

Prof. Onur Mutlu, Head of the SAFARI Research Group, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Paul Wrede, doctoral student at the professorship for biomedical imaging led by Prof. Daniel Razansky, has been awarded the 2026 Schmidt Science Fellowship. His goal is to explore how artificial cells can be developed to better communicate with the body and to understand fundamental biological processes.

Professor David Basin and lecturer Ralf Sasse from the Department of Computer Science, together with Professors Cas Cremers and Jannik Dreier, have been honored with the Levchin Prize at the Real World Cryptography Conference. They received the award for developing Tamarin, a leading system for the formal verification of cryptographic protocols.

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!

Andr¨¦ Bardow, Professor of Energy and Process Systems Engineering at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Wilhelm Jost Memorial Medal for his achievements in physical chemistry. The award ceremony took place on 15 January at Georg August University in G?ttingen, Germany.

CELLSIUS,?an association of students at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Jakob Ackeret?Prize 2025. The award recognises the development of the H2-Sling, a?hydrogen-powered aircraft that, to the best of current knowledge, is the?world¡¯s first fully functional student-built hydrogen aircraft.

Andrew Jackson is Professor of Earth and Planetary Magnetism at D-EAPS. His instrumental work in the field of geomagnetism led to the creation of a model which has been used by "virtually every study of the historical magnetic field of the last 20 years". In receiving the Society's highest honour - which dates back 200 years - he joins the likes of Stephen Hawking, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Albert Einstein and Edwin Hubble.

Christophe Cop¨¦ret, Professor of Surface and Interfacial Chemistry at?D-CHAB, has been elected to the French Academy of Sciences. The Academy plays a?key role in promoting scientific dialogue.?

Systems biologist Bernd Wollscheid has been honoured for his discoveries in the field of proteomics. The award, presented by the Human Proteome Organisation, recognises his pioneering work in decoding the ¡®surfaceome¡¯ ¨C the totality of all proteins on the cell surface.

Konrad Schindler, Professor of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at ETH Zurich, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), effective 1 January 2026. The honour recognises his contributions to computer vision and artificial intelligence in photogrammetry and remote sensing. IEEE Fellow is the organisation¡¯s highest grade and is awarded annually to only 0.1% of its members worldwide.

Since 1933, the Belgian Francqui Chairs aims to promote cooperation between universities and highlight academic excellence. This year,? Fr¨¦d¨¦ric Merkt, Professor of Physical Chemistry at D-CHAB has been invited to give the?Francqui Chairs lecture series and conferences encouraging scientific exchange and fostering meetings between researchers.

Lukas Ballo receives the Carl Pirath Prize 2025 from the Deutsche
Verkehrswissenschaftliche Gesellschaft e. V. (DVWG) for his dissertation
about the E-Bike City project.

Where antibodies reach their limits in medicine, aptamers step in.?For her pioneering work in developing aptamer-modified biosensors, Nako Nakatsuka, assistant professor at EPFL, has been honored with the 2025 Ruzicka Prize.

BRIDGE, the funding initiative of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and Innosuisse, reviewed 108 applications and ultimately approved 15 innovation projects, including Daniel Richard's project (deMello Group).?The project is supported with CHF 2.5 million. The chemist intends to use the funding to develop affordable, portable, and rapid diagnostic technology for tuberculosis.

Torsten Hoefler, Professor at the Department of Computer Science (D-INFK) at ETH Zurich and Chief Architect for AI at CSCS, and his team, together with CSCS engineers, won this year¡¯s Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling. ETH Professor Mathieu Luisier (D-ITET) and his team, collaborating with Hoefler and also finalists, received the ACM Honorable Mention.?

This year¡¯s Golden Owl teaching award goes to Johan Gaume, Professor of Alpine Mass Movements at ETH Zurich and SLF Davos. Through hands-on experiments, blackboard derivations and simulations, he brings the physics of granular materials like sand and snow vividly to life. For him, teaching and learning are driven by passion, curiosity and enjoyment.

The adjunct professor of geodynamics is?honoured?by students for his empathetic manner and enormous?expertise.

Bill Morandi, Professor of Organic Chemistry (D-CHAB), receives the Mukaiyama Award 2026 for his outstanding achievements in the field of Synthetic Organic Chemistry. The prize is awarded by the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan.

Vladim¨ªr ?ver¨¢k is Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota and?has made pioneering achievements in his research on Navier-Stokes equations.??In recognition of his outstanding achievements in the analysis of fluid mechanics equations, the Department of Mathematics will honour him with the Heinz Hopf Prize on 11 November 2025.

Julius von K¨¹gelgen, postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Mathematics, is one of eight outstanding international early-career scientists who have been awarded the prestigious Branco Weiss Fellowship ¨C Society in Science.

This year¡¯s Clo?tta Prize goes to the cancer researcher from the Department of Biology at ETH Zurich. The award is in recognition of his groundbreaking contributions to cancer metastasis research.?

Annelies Voordendag, a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich¡¯s Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, has been named one of four laureates of the Swiss L'Or¨¦al-UNESCO "For Women in Science" Awards 2025. The programme honours outstanding female scientists for their contributions to research and society.

Robert Finger, Professor of Agricultural Economics and Policy and?Chair of the World Food System Center at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Fellowship Award by the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE). The fellow membership is the highest distinction awarded by the association.

Nina Buchmann, Professor of Grassland Sciences at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Honorary Membership by the British Ecological Society (BES). Honorary membership is the highest honour given by the Society.

Filippo Coletti, Professor of Experimental Fluid Dynamics at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (D-MAVT) at ETH Zurich, has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). He is recognised for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of particle-laden turbulence.

The Swiss Foundation for the Doron Prize has honoured Professor Tanja Stadler, Head of the Computational Evolution Group at the Department of Biosystems and Engineering Sciences and Deputy Head of the D-BSSE, with one of Switzerland's most prestigious awards for her pioneering contributions to computational evolution and her central role in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Frankfurt Foundation Quality of Medicines (FFQM) and the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG) have awarded Dr. Christian Steuer, Privatdozent at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences D-CHAB, the 2025 ¡°Award for the Advancement of Drug Quality.¡±

Professor Georg von Krogh, the new head of the D-MTEC department, has been honoured with the AMD Scientific Impact Award and has been appointed to the Board of the University of Bergen.

Marilena Bohley Steiger, research group leader in the Drug Formulation and Delivery Laboratory (Leroux Group) at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Galenus Technology Prize 2025 for her research on enzyme-mediated absorption enhancement for non-invasive drug delivery.

This year's prize from the Micius Quantum Foundation celebrates quantum simulation in optical lattices, a field which Esslinger and his group in the Department of Physics have been spearheading from the very beginning.

Walter Kaufmann, Professor of Structural Engineering (Concrete Structures and Bridge Design) at ETH Zurich, has been designated a fib Fellow and was awarded the fib Medal of Merit. The medal?recognises his outstanding contributions to structural concrete and the fib ¨C the International Federation for Structural Concrete.?Congratulations!

The grant will allow Degen and his group in the Department of Physics to develop a photonic integrated circuit for single-photon-emitter excitation and detection, with future commercial use in optical quantum sensing and communication.

Paolo Arosio, professor at the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, receives an ERC Proof of Concept grant to develop a technology for?the rapid, specific, and scalable isolation of vesicles and molecules from biofluids with applications in diagnostics and disease monitoring as well as drug manufacturing.

Sarbajit Banerjee receives the Royal Society of Chemistry¡¯s Centenary Prize for original insights into structure and chemical bonding far from equilibrium, and for excellence in communicating chemical principles underpinning clean energy to the public.?

The Golden Lion for the best national contribution at the 2025 Architecture Biennale in Venice was awarded to the Bahrain Pavilion ¨C a project focused on heat-adapted architecture with original contributions from Professor Alexander Puzrin. In total, five projects involving the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich are on display at the Venice Biennale. They illustrate how research and technology can pave new ways for sustainable construction.

The French-American chemist Marie Perrin has been selected as one of the ten finalists for the European Patent Office¡¯s Young Inventors Prize 2025. She received the prize in the category "World builder". Her innovation enables the environmentally friendly recovery of the rare earth element europium from e-waste like discarded fluorescent lamps.

The Associate Professor at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST) has been accepted as a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Congratulations!

Research fellow Thea Klaeboe Aarrestad was awarded the Young Experimental Physicist Prize from the European Physical Society for her outstanding contributions to experimental particle physics.

Among 90 exceptional researchers, Ursula Keller, Professor at the?Institute for Quantum Electronics, has been awarded a ¡°Foreign Fellowship¡± of the Royal Society. The expert in Ultrafast Laser Physics is the only scientist from Switzerland to receive this honour this year.?

Professor Peter M¨¹ller and his co-author have been awarded the prestigious ETAPS Test of Time Award for their paper ¡°A Basis for Verifying Multi-threaded Programs¡±. The ETAPS Test of Time Award has been established to recognise outstanding papers published more than 10 years ago. Congratulations!

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences inducts Nina Buchmann and Nicola Spaldin.

The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has awarded ETH Zurich Materials scientist, Nicola Spaldin, the Carus Medal 2024 for her outstanding research work. The award will be presented on 22 May 2025 in Schweinfurt, Germany.

Ulrike Lohmann, Professor for Atmospheric Physics at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the 2025 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal by the European Geosciences Union (EGU) for her research on cloud-climate interactions. Her work combines microscale processes and satellite data with global models to assess the radiative impact of clouds on the Earth system.

Eva J. Meeus, post-doctoral student in the Morandi Group at ETH Zurich, has been selected for the global CAS Future Leaders program ¨C a prestigious and highly competitive program that provides opportunities for early career scientists to learn leadership skills and engage in scientific discourse.

MSc MTEC graduate Daniel Schoess has won the EHI Foundation and GS1 Germany Science Award for his Master¡¯s thesis in recognition of his innovative approach to predicting product interactions using minimal retail data.

George Haller, Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, has been honoured with the 2025 Lyapunov Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Towards sustainable catalysis: On February 14, 2025, Prof. Murielle Delley, professor at the University Basel, will receive the 2024 Ruzicka Prize for her work on the controlled surface modification of cobalt phosphide with sulfur. ?

The ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2025) has recognised Professor Ralf Jung (Department of Computer Science) and his collaborators with a Test-of-Time Award for the paper "Iris: Monoids and Invariants as an Orthogonal Basis for Concurrent Reasoning". Big congratulations!

The Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf has appointed former WSL Director James Kirchner as the 30th holder of the King Carl XVI Gustaf Professorship in Environmental Sciences for the year 2025/26.

The ALEA and Diversity Awards, initiated by AVETH, were presented with VPPL at a joint ceremony on 26 November 2024. The awards recognise individuals and groups who exemplify our understanding of leadership and support our commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Raffaello D¡¯Andrea, ETH Professor of Dynamic Systems and Control, has been inducted into the Logistics Hall of Fame. Together with Mick Mountz and Peter Wurman, he has revolutionized the ¡°goods to person¡± concept.

Aldo Steinfeld, Professor for Renewable Energy Carriers in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, received the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's SolarPACES conference in Rome together with Manuel Romero from the IMDEA Energy Institute in Madrid.

On May 15, ETH Zurich will honor particularly innovative teaching projects with the KITE Award for the fifth time. In a short series, we present the three projects that made it to the final.

On May 15, ETH Zurich will honor particularly innovative teaching projects with the KITE Award for the fith time. In a short series, we present the three projects that made it to the final.

On May 15, ETH Zurich will honor particularly innovative teaching projects with the KITE Award for the fifth time. In a short series, we present the three projects that made it to the final.

Florian Fuchs won first prize for the Young Researcher Award at the RailDresden Conference 2025 for a paper co-authored with Bernardo Martin-Iradi and Professor Francesco Corman. Additionally, the team also won the Second Best Paper Award.

Kevin Riehl together with his team the Gradient Descenters won the second prize in one of the most renowed AI/ML hackatons in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

Matthias Andrews Garc¨ªa receives the Prix LITRA for his work on time reduction potential through a continental-scale schedule optimisation of long-distance international passenger rail corridors in Europe.

Over 2,000 students, researchers, entrepreneurs and industry representatives discussed the latest trends in artificial intelligence at the AI+X Summit 2023. Popular topics included the influence of generative AI, AI legislation, AI in medicine and trustworthy AI.

This year, the Wolfgang Pauli Lectures will highlight the CRISPR technology, its origins and its current applications in research and medicine. The speaker is Jennifer Doudna, the 2020 Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry.

The new laboratory and research building in Basel has been awarded the "Iconic Awrad 2023" in the category "Innovative Architecture - Public / Culture / Education".

Switzerland currently has only limited access to Horizon Europe, the world¡¯s largest funding programme for research and innovation. Here¡¯s why this will become problematic for Switzerland as a centre of research and innovation in the long term.

Can machines acquire capabilities that remind us of (or even exceed) general-purpose intelligent reasoning in humans? This question will be explained by computer scientist Sanjeev Arora from Princeton University at today¡¯s Paul Bernays Lecture in the ETH main building.