Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards are not foreign at D-MAVT. The ETH and other recognized scientific organizations take notice of our research, whether from Professor, Student or Institute.

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National

Lino Guzzella, MAVT-Professor for Thermotronics, will become rector of ETH Zürich. The ETH Board has elected him as a member of the Executive Board. This complies with the request of ETH President Ralph Eichler. Lino Guzzella is following in the footsteps of Heidi Wunderli-Allenspach, who is due to retire at the end of July 2012.

Dr. George Sotiriou from Prof. Pratsinis’ team won the 2012 Best PhD Thesis Award from the Division of Polymers and Colloids of the Swiss Chemical Society. He will receive it at its its annual meeting on April 20th in Fribourg.

Mark Müller from Prof. Raffael D'Andrea Group won the Jakob Ackeret Award 2011 for his master thesis "Quadrocopter Ball Juggling"

Annelies Vandersickel, until end of 2011 doctoral student at the Laboratory for Aerothermochemistry and Comubustion Systems from Prof. Boulouchos' team, received the Kamm-Jante-Medal 2012 for the best dissertation in the German speaking area on the field of combustion engines.

International

Prof. Petros Koumoutsakos has been elected Fellow of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers). Fellow Grade is the highest elected grade of membership within ASME, the attainment of which recognizes exceptional engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession. Also ASME fellows are Prof. Reza Abhari, Prof. Jürg Dual, Prof. Bradley Nelson, Prof. Dimos Poulikakos and Prof. Aldo Steinfeld.

Prof. Dimos Poulikakos was selected to receive a Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award from the University of Colorado Boulder/USA. The awards are scheduled to be presented on Friday evening, 27 April 2012 in Boulder.

Seven ETH Scientist get one of the renowned ERC Advanced Grant of 17 Mio. Swiss Franken. Senior Scientist Dr. Ilya Karlin of the Institute for Energy Technology gets 1,9 Million for his projekt of a novel calculation method for fluid dynamics which is based on a drastically reducted molecular image of particles.

Professor Pratsinis will deliver the 9th Annual L.M. Fingerson / TSI Inc. Distinguished Lecture at the University of Minnesota on May 17.

Prof. Dimos Poulikakos was plenary speaker at the ASME 2012 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference which was taking place March 3-6 in Atlanta/Georgia/USA. He was talking of "Less is More: Fundamental Aspects and Novel Technologies with Small Droplets and even Smaller Particles".

Loutzenhiser, Stamatiou, Villasmil, Meier, and Steinfeld won the Energy Best Paper Professional Award 2012 by the The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.

Dr. Loutzenhiser, post-doc in Steinfeld’s lab, was appointed Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech/USA.

Antje Rey from Prof. Stemmers Nanotechnology Group was awarded with an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship. It says in the Award Notification: "This award is
highly competitive and recognizes your student as well as the quality of your institution."

Prof. Dimos Poulikakos was plenary speaker at the ASME 2012 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference which was taking place March 3-6 in Atlanta/Georgia/USA. He was talking of "Less is More: Fundamental Aspects and Novel Technologies with Small Droplets and even Smaller Particles".

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