Latsis University Prizes

ETH Zurich

MOST RECENT
OLDEST

2024

Yiwen Chu

L’acoustodynamique quantique des circuits pour coupler des résonateurs mécaniques à des qubits supraconducteurs et à des résonateurs à micro-ondes.

2023

Inge Herrmann

For her outstanding accomplishments in the field of materials engineering for biomedicine, especially for the development of nanoparticle-enabled approaches addressing clinical needs.

2022

Alessandro Carlotto

For groundbreaking contributions to Geometric Analysis.

2021

Stanisa Raspopovic

Outstanding accomplishments in the field of neuro-engineering, especially for connecting artificial limbs to the sensory nervous system, enabling restoration of natural sensations of touch and proprioception and thus improving limb function.

2020

Lavinia Heisenberg

Outstanding accomplishments in the field of theoretical physics, for her systematic considerations of possible generalisations of General Relativity by including vector and tensor fields into the geometry.

2019

Randall Platt

Pioneering work in the field of genome engineering, particularly by developing new methods to record genome expressions in living cells.

2018

Sereina Riniker

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations: a computational microscope to study biological processes at the atomic level

2017

Emma Slack Wetter

Pioneering work in the field of bacterial infections, particularly on controlling bacterial kinetics in the intestine.

2016

Jonathan Home

Pioneering experiments on controlling quantum systems consisting of single trapped ions to explore the transition between classical and quantum dynamics.

2015

Torsten Höfler

Contributions to performance modelling, simulation, and optimization of large-scale parallel applications; topologies, routing, and host interfaces of large-scale networks; and advanced parallel programming techniques and runtime environments.

2014

Philipp Grohs

Contributions to approximation theory, numerical analysis, differential geometry, computational geometry and multi-scale methods.

2013

Tanja Stadler

(Mathematical biology) “Contributions to phylogenetic reconstruction methods for inference based on maximum likelihood approaches”.

2012

Olga Sorkine

Accomplishments in the fields of computer graphics and geometric modeling in particular for contributions to the development of novel methods and algorithms for efficient digital processing of complex 3-dimensional geometry and surfaces.

2011

Paola Picotti

Development of the highly sensitive SRM method.

2010

Mario Agio

Light-matter interactions.

2009

Charalampos Anastasiou

Significant contributions to the phenomenology of particle physics and perturbative quantum field theory.

2008

Teresa Fitzpatrick

Investigations of the vitamins B6 biosynthesis pathway. In particular for unraveling a novel pathway in archea, fungi and plants and the role of vitamin B6 in plant developmental processes and stress response.

2007

Benjamin John Marsland

Contributions in the fields of immunology and infectious diseases in particular for unraveling the in vivo role of a central molecule in T cell differentiation and ensuing immune responses to pathogens and allergens.

2006

Artem R. Organov

Contributions to mineral physics in particular for research on crystal structure prediction and for the discovery of several major Earth-forming minerals.

2005

Nenad Ban

Solving the crystal structures of the 50S robosomal subunit and ribosomal cofactors required for protein synthesis, targeted protein degradation and cotranslational protein folding.

2004

Karl Gademann

Peptide alkaloid anachelin.

2003

Thomas Koop

Phase transition mechanisms and physico-chemical properties in atmospheric aerosol particles of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere.

2002

Joël Mesot

High-temperature superconductors.

2001

Vadim Borisovich Geshkenbein

Studies on strongly fluctuating superconductors.

2000

David Luckhaus

Molecular Quantum Dynamics and Spectroscopy.

1999

Olivier J.F. Martin

Nanotechnologies: Image-formation and contrast mechanisms in scanning near-field microscopy and of light-interaction with photonic band-gap nanostructures.

1999

Klaus Holliger

Geosciences: Statistical studies of physical and structural properties of the crust and simulations of ground-penetrating radar and seismic wave propagation.

1997

Manfred Sigrist

Unconventional (d-wave) superconductors, “quasi one dimensional” cuprates, kondo spin lattice systems and high temperature superconductivity.

1996

Leonardo Degiorgi

Light: an Ideal Probe to Understand Condensed Matter.

1995

Martin A. Suhm

Structure and dynamics of hydrogen bonds: HF vapor.

1994

Markus Beat Scheidegger

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Blood Flow Velocities and Angiography of the Coronary Arteries.

1993

Peter Schurtenberger

Structure determination by dynamics and static light scattering.

1992

Gottfried Otting

La détermination de la structure d’un complexe homéodomain-ADN des antennapedia en solution au moyen de la spectroscopie à résonance nucléaire.

1992

Martin Billeter

La détermination de la structure d’un complexe homéodomain-ADN des antennapedia en solution au moyen de la spectroscopie à résonance nucléaire.

1991

Eduard Kissling

Géophysique : Tomographie sismique.

1990

Emmanuel Strehler

La biologie moléculaire d’importantes protéines des membranes cellulaires.

1989

Jürg Dual

Wave propagation in solids.

1988

Hans von Känel

Surface physics.

1987

Matti S. A. Leisola

Microbiology, biochemistery and enzymology of lignin biodegradation.

1986

Tsutomu Ishimasa

Quasiperiodic crystals studied by electron microscopy.

1985

Malcolm H. Levitt

Nuclear magnetic resonance pulse spectroscopy.

1984

Anton Good

Analytical theory of numbers.

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