Honors and Awards 2008

• Boulouchos’ Laboratory for Aerochemistry and Combustion:

• G. Pizza made the cover page of the October issue of Combustion and Flame (Vol. 155, Issues 1-2)
  

• Dr. S. Chikatamarla received the 2008 MAVT Silver Medal for outstanding dissertation.

• D'Andrea´s Measurement and Control Laboratory:

• Raff D‘Andrea won the
  IEEE/IFR Invention and Entrepreneurship Award with KIVA Systems.

• Dual's Center for Mechanics:

• Dr. R. Steffanelli and Dr. E. Cataldi PhD students of Jürg Dual and Christoph Glocker received the "Goldene Schiene" for their PhD thesis from GDI (Gesellschaft der Ingenieure des öffentlichen Verkehrs)
• Jürg Dual was elected to the Swiss Academy of Engineering joining there Abhari, Kroeger, Poulikakos, Rudolph von Rohr and Siegwart.
• Jürg Dual was elected president of HV (Hochschulversammlung) of ETH

• Guzzella's Measurement and Control Laboratory:

• Team of Lino Guzzella with students of Hochschule Luzern won the Formula-Hybrid in Italy.
• Lino Guzzella won the IEEE Multi-conference Award on Systems and Control Industry for Excellence in Translational Control Research.

• Hierold's Group of Micro and Nanosystems:

• Daniel Bechstein, MSc student, received the ETH Excellence Scholarship and Opportunity Award 2008.

• Koumoutsakos' Computational Science Lab:

• Dr. M. Bergdorf received the 2008 MAVT Silver Medal for outstanding dissertation.

• Kröger's Laboratory for Nuclear Systems:

• M. Kaegi, Ph.D student, received the „venture-kick-Preis (Stufe 1)“ for his business idea.

• Mazzotti's Separation Processes Laboratory:

• M. Kempkes won the first poster prize in the Industrial Crystallization mtg. in Maastricht
• Marco Mazzotti gave a keynote lecture @ 17th International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization in Maastricht, Netherlands.

• Müllers' Institute for Biomechanics:

• Romain Voide received the 2008 Raisz-Dreszner Award for his article in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research
• Prof. Ralph Müller was elected President of the European Society of Biomechanics at the society's biennial meeting in Lucerne.
• Ph. Schneider received the Student Award from the European Society of Biomechanics. The prize is given away every two years to the first ranked abstract and presentation of a doctoral student.

• Nelson's Multiscale and Robotics Lab:

• Ashish Kumar Cherukuri, MSc student, received the ETH Excellence Scholarship and Opportunity Award 2008.

• Poulikakos' Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies:

• Dimos Poulikakos was elected to the Swiss Academy joining there Kroger, Siegwart, Rudolph von Rohr and Abhari.

• Pratsinis' Particle Technology Laboratory:

• Dr. A. Teleki received the 2008 MAVT Silver Medal for outstanding dissertation.
• Sotiris Pratsinis gave a plenary lecture at the International Aerosol Symposium for the 25th anniversary of the Japan Association of Aerosol Science and Technology in Kanazawa, Japan (450 participants).
• Dr. R. Strobel received the 2008 Sheldon K. Friedlander Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research
• Dr. A. Teleki made the cover page of the August 14, 2008 issue of the Journal of Materials Chemistry.
• Sotiris Pratsinis gave the 2008 Phil Morrison Lecture at the Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.
• Emeritus Prof. L. Reh received a 2008 Friendship Award from China.

• Rösgen's Experimental Fluid Dynamics Lab:

• Dr. J. Sznitman received the 2008 MAVT Silver Medal for outstanding dissertation.

• Riener's Sensory Motor Systems Laboratory:

• A. Duschau-Wicke received the AUTOMED award for his presentation "Path Control: A Strategy for Patient-Cooperative Training of Gait Timing".
• Dr. T. Nef was elected Assist. Professor at the Catholic University at Washington D.C.

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

• Dr. S. Kuhn received the 2008 MAVT Silver Medal for outstanding dissertation.
• Daniel Sutter received for his studies the ETH Excellence Scholarship and Opportunity Award 2008.
• Christian Roth received for his Master thesis the first prize by the Swiss Society for Chemical Engineering that gives 3 such prizes every year to ETH/FH engineers.

• Siegwart's Autonomous Systems Laboratory:

• Roland Siegwart gave the keynote lecture at the TAROS - Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems in Edinburgh and at the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-10) in Baden-Baden.
• Roland Siegwart has been elected to the SNF Forschungsrat "Abteilung IV" (NCCR and similar type of projects) from Januar 1, 2009.
• The Skysailor from ASL completed a 27 hr autonomous flight!
• Roland Siegwart was elected IEEE Fellow for his contributions to mobile, networked, and micro-scale robots.

• Steinfeld's Professorship in Renewable Energy Carriers:

• Michael Krüsi, MSc student, received the ETH Excellence Scholarship and Opportunity Award 2008.
• Dr. W. Lipinski was elected Assist. Professor at the University of Minnesota.

• Stemmer's Nanotechnology Group:

• Dr. M. Aschwanden received the 2008 MAVT Silver Medal for outstanding dissertation.

• Wegener's Institute of Machine Tools and Manufacturing:

• Michael Daiber, MSc student, received for his excellent Masterthesis the ETH Medaille 2008.
• Maria Tarcsay, MSc student,  was awarded with the Dyson Award 2008 for the student project (together with Marco Stoffel and Christian Looser).
• Dr. Bernhard Ulrich Bringmann was awarded the HILTI-Prize 2008 for his excellent Doctoral Thesis.