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.
Rössler Prize
The Rössler Prize is awarded to a young professor of ETH Zurich on an annual base. Dr Max Rössler 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.
Ružička Prize
The annual Ružička 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.
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.