Honors and Awards 2007

• Abhari’s Laboratory for Turbomachinery:

• Prof. Reza Abhari was elected to the Swiss Academy of Engineering (SATW) in the field of Energy Technology. Current D-MAVT members of SATW are W. Kroger, R. Siegwart and Ph. Rudolph von Rohr.

• Boulouchos’ Laboratory for Aerochemistry and Combustion:

• Dipl.-Masch.-Ing. ETH Patrick Stephane Rebecchi won the award Studienpreis 2007 for his diploma thesis from SEW-EURODRIVE-Foundation.
• P. Obrecht, K. Boulouchos received together with Kistler Instrumente AG, Sensoptic SA and Volkswagen the SENSOR Innovationspreis 2007.
• K. Herrmann received together with Wärtsilä Switzerland Ltd the 2007 BP award on Health, Safety & Environment.
• I.V. Karlin, A.N. Gorban: on of their Papers had been published at Elsevier in Chemical Engineering Science 2003-2006 and had been recognized in "Top-50 most cited articles".
• S. Karagiannidis, J. Mantzaras, G. Jackson, K. Boulouchos had received the Distinguished Paper Award in Colloquium New Technology Concepts at the Thirty-first International Symposium on Combustion.

• Müller‘s Biomechanics Laboratory:

• Dr. M. Stauber for his Ph.D. the research award der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Biomedizinische Technik.
• H. Hagenmüller, the Max Anliker Memorial Poster Award der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Biomedizinische Technik.
• Ph. Schneider gave the Best presentation of a student researcher on the „Dreiländertagung der Deutschen, Österreichischen und Schweizerischen Gesellschaften für Biomedizinische Technik.
• Prof. R. Müller and his group had been rewarded of the „Deutsche Akademie der osteologischen und rheumatologischen Wissenschaften“ with the annual prize of publications.

• Mazzotti’s Separation Processes Laboratory:

• Prof. M. Mazzotti was elected Vice-President of the International Adsorption Society, 2007 –2010.

• Nelson’s Multiscale Robotics Laboratory:

• Prof. Nelson made one of the “top 3“ distinctions of ETH in 2007 according to President Eichler‘s X-mas Audimax talk to about 400 ETH professors & employees. Prof. Helenius‘ (D-BIOL) Benois Prize & Prof. Seeberger‘s (D-CHAB) Körber European Science Award were the other two.
• Prof. Nelson made the cover article of the February issue in Nanotechnology.
• Prof. Nelson and his students received Googol Best New Application Paper in IEEE Trans. Automation Science and Engineering.
• Prof. Nelson group was a finalist for Best Automation Paper at IEEE Int. Conf. On Robotics and Automation.

• Pratsinis’ Particle Technology Laboratory:

• Ms. Alexandra Teleki received the 2nd Best Poster Award at the 2007 PARTEC, International Congress for Particle Technology in Nuremberg, Germany.
• Prof. S.E. Pratsinis became Fellow of the Nanoscale Science and Technology Institute in USA.
• Prof. S.E. Pratsinis was the opening Plenary Speaker of the 2007 European Aerosol Conference (an 800-participant event) in Salzburg, Austria.
• Emeritus Prof. L. Reh received the first ever Award for Scientific Cooperation by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

• Rudolf von Rohr’s Transport Processes and Reactions Laboratory :

• Prof. Ph. Rudolf von Rohr received the „Ehrendoktor“ der Universität von Bratislava, Slowakia.
  
• Mr. Tobias Rothenfluh received the first Innovation Prize for an exceptional and innovative Diploma/ Master Thesis by the Swiss Society for Chemical Engineering that gives three prizes each year to ETH/FH engineers.

• Steinfeld’s Renewable Energy Laboratory:

• Prof. A. Steinfeld received the ASME Calvin W. Rice Award.
• Prof. A. Steinfeld was elected to give the Founder Lecture at the University of Minnesota’s ME Day 2007.