Honours and prizes
ETH Zurich is home to many high-calibre scientists working diligently in their specialist fields. The numerous honours and awards that ETH researchers receive for their scientific work shows just how successful they are.
Award for space researcher Thomas Zurbuchen
The ETH professor has received one of the most prestigious awards in space research. According to the laudation, Thomas Zurbuchen has distinguished himself by his contributions to the aerospace community.
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.?
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.
Marie Perrin receives Young Inventors Prize "World builder"
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.
Alexander Mathys admitted to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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!
Vladimir Pliska receives medal for merits in the development of science
The professor emeritus of ETH Zurich receives the NUMISMA HONORIS medal?SOCIETATIS SCIENTIARUM BOHEMICAE. It is awarded by the Learned Society of the Czech Republic for services to the development of science.
A wide net for searching new physics
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.
Ursula Keller elected to “Foreign Fellowship” of the Royal Society
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.?
Honours and prizes awarded by ETH Zurich
The latest annual report lists the main prizes and awards that members of ETH Zurich have received for their research and educational work in international competition during the course of the reporting year.