Events

Honors & Awards

National

The ETH Spin-off FemtoTools GmbH was selected as one of the three winners of the 2009 Swiss Technology Award (3rd place)

Dr. Christian Lindenberg was awarded the ETH Medal 2009 for his outstanding doctoral thesis "Optimizing the Precipitation of Organic Compounds" under the supervision of Prof. M. Mazzotti

Dr. Silvan Schmid was awarded the ETH Medal 2009 for his outstanding doctoral thesis "Electrostatically Actuated All-Polymer Microbeam Resonators - Characterization and Application" under the supervision of Prof. Ch. Hierold

Dr. Wulf Glatz (former PhD student of Prof. Ch. Hierold) received the swisselectric research award 2009 for his PhD research

Philippe Favre from Prof. J. Snedeker's team was awarded the Best Poster Prize at the 2009 annual meeting of the Swiss Society of Orthopedic Surgeons (SGO)

International

Prof. S.E. Pratsinis was awarded with the ERC Advanced Investigator Grant from the European Research Council for his project "Flame Aerosol Reactors for Manufacturing of Surface-Functionalized Nanoscale Materials and Devices"

Oliver Waser and Robert Büchel from Prof. Pratsinis' team won the "Best poster award for aerosol-based nanotechnology" at the 2009 European Aerosol Conference in Karlsruhe, a 760-attendee congress

Matthias Brunner has won the Donald Juluis Groen Prize of the Thermofluids Group of IMechE for the best contribution in the Thermofluids field

Dr. Davide Scaramuzza from Prof. Siegwart's team won the Robotdalen Scientific Award for his doctoral thesis

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