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.
RSC Centenary Prize for Sarbajit Banerjee
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.?
ETH spin-offs sweep the board at Venture Awards
Six spin-offs of ETH Zurich were among the 18 finalists in this year’s Venture Awards. Three of them won in their respective categories, and three came in second. The Grand Prize went to spin-off MyNerva.
Venice Biennale: Golden Lion for climate-resilient architecture
The Golden Lion for the best national contribution at the 2025 Architecture Biennale in Venice was awarded to the Bahrain Pavilion – 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.