Honours and prizes

Professor Mennatallah El-Assady, head of the Interactive Visualization and Intelligence Augmentation Lab at the Department of Computer Science (D-INFK), has been awarded the 2024 Visualization Significant New Researcher Award at the IEEE VIS Conference. The prize honours her ground-breaking work at the intersection of visualization and machine learning. Congratulations!

The prize for the best invention at ETH Zurich 2024 will be awarded on 21 November. An overview, complete with videos, of the five technologies that made it to the final.

He studies cancer cells and their cellular environment in order to new therapies. Now, ETH Zurich Professor Andrea Alimonti is being awarded the Clo?tta Prize.

The Ralph Shangraw Memorial Award is awarded by the IPEC Americas Foundation for outstanding research in the study of excipients or excipient-related technology.?

Nicolas Gruber, Professor for Environmental Physics at the Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS) at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Roger Revelle Medal by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Professor Torsten Hoefler (D-INFK), Head of the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory at the Department of Computer Science, has been awarded the prestigious Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for his research in the field of computer science. Congratulations!

Irena Hajnsek, Professor of Earth Observation and Remote Sensing at the ETH-Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oslo. The award was presented to her on Monday at the university¡¯s annual ceremony. Congratulations!