Honors and Awards 2009

 

• Abhari’s Laboratory for Energy Conversion:

• Matthias Brunner has won the Thermofluids Group of IMechE of the Thermofluids Group of IMechE for the best contribution in the Thermofluids field.
• Prof. R. S. Abhari will receive the ASME Turbo Expo 2008 Best Paper Award for his paper from the Structures & Dynamics Committee.
• Prof. R. S. Abhari won the Award for Outstanding Paper in Fluid Mechanics for 2008 for his paper in "Measurement Science and Technology, Volume 19, Issue 11 (2008)".

• D'Andrea's Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control:

• Prof. R. D'Andrea has been elected "IEEE Fellow" for his contributions to control of autonomous systems.
• Prof. R. D‘Andrea was elected Tetelman Fellow at Yale University in 2008.
• Prof. R. D‘Andrea received the 2008 IEEE/IFR Invention and Entrepreneurship Award with KIVA Systems 2008.

• Dual's Center for Mechanics:

• Dr. R. Steffanelli and Dr. E. Cataldi from Prof. J. Dual's and Prof. Ch. Glocker's team received the "Goldene Schiene" 2008 for their PhD research.
• Prof. J. Dual was elected to the Swiss Academy of Engineering joining there Abhari, Kroeger, Poulikakos, Rudolph von Rohr and Siegwart, 2008.

• Ermanni's Center of Structure Technologies:

• Prof. P. Ermanni held a plenary presentation at 16th SPIE Annual International Symposium from 9-12 March 2009 in San Diego, USA; Handout.

• Glocker's Center for Mechanics

• Prof. Ch. Glocker won a Goldene Eule 2009 for his teaching at ETH Zurich.

• Guzzella's Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control:

• Prof. L. Guzzella has been elected as individual member to the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences.
• Prof. L. Guzzella was elected Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) for his outstanding and extraordinary contributions to that field.
• Prof. L. Guzzella and his team won the Formula-Hybrid Race in October 2008 in Italy.
• Prof. L. Guzzella received the 2008 IEEE Industry Award for Excellence in Translational Control Research.

• Hierold's Professorship in Micro and Nanosystems:

• 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.
• Prof. Ch. Hierold has been elected as individual member to the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences.

• Hora's Institute of Virtual Manufacturing:

• Prof. P. Hora gave a keynote lecture at the Plasticity '09-Conference, January 3rd till 8th, 2009, USA.

• Mazzotti's Separation Processes Laboratory:

• 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.
• Prof. Dr. M. Mazzotti won a Goldene Eule 2008 for his teaching at ETH Zurich.
• M. Kempkes from Prof. M. Mazzotti's team won the first poster prize in Industrial Crystallization.
• Prof. M. Mazzotti gave a keynote lecture at the 17th International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization in Maastricht, Netherlands, 2008.

• Müllers' Institute for Biomechanics:

• Samuel Basler and Christoph Schröter from Prof. R. Müller's team are the this year's winners of the Student Award of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering.
• Dr. Philipp Schneider from Prof. R. Müller's team received the Young Investigator Award of the International Society of Bone Morphometry (ISBM) for his abstract presented at the XIth ISBM World Congress held in Zell am See, Austria.
• R. Voide from Prof. R. Müller's team received the 2008 Raisz-Dreszner Award
• Dr. P. Schneider from Prof. R. Müller's team won the Student Award from the European Society of Biomechanics 2008.

• Nelson's Multiscale and Robotics Lab:

• Prof. B. Nelson's team won the Best Student Paper Award and the Best Automation Paper Award at ICRA 2009 for their paper.

• Poulikakos' Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies:

• Prof. D. Poulikakos received the 2009 Nusselt-Reynolds Prize that is awarded in the areas of thermal and fluid sciences by the "Assembly of World Conferences on Experimental Heat Transfer".

• Pratsinis' Particle Technology Laboratory:

• 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.
• Prof. PD Lutz Mädler (currently at U. Bremen) who served as Oberassistant (1999-2005) in Prof. Pratsinis' team won the 2009 Dechema Max Bouchner Prize for his nanomaterials research.
• Dr. Alexandra Teleki from Prof. S. Pratsinis' team received the first prize in the 2009 DSM Science & Technology Awards (South: Germany, Austria, Switzerland & France) for her PhD research.
• Prof. em. L. Reh received a 2008 International Cooperation in Science and Technology Award from P.R. China.
• Dr. R. Strobel from Prof. S. Pratsinis' team received the Sheldon K. Friedlander Award for his PhD.
• Emeritus Prof. L. Reh, (predecessor of Prof. S. Pratsinis) received a 2008 Friendship Award from China.

• Riener's Sensory Motor Systems Laboratory:

• Dr. T. Nef has been awarded the ABB Forschungspreis 2009 for his doctoral thesis about the arm rehabilitation roboter ARMin.
• Ningbo Yu from Prof. Riener's team received the "2008 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad" from the China Scholarship Council.
• Heike Vallery from Prof. Riener's team received the Best Presentation Award at the IEEE 11th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR) in Kyoto, Japan for her presentation.
• Dr. T. Nef from Prof. R. Riener's team received the Hans-Eggenberger-Preis for his Dissertation.
• A. Duschau-Wicke from Prof. R. Riener's team received the AUTOMED Award for a conference paper.

• Rösgen's Experimental Fluid Dynamics Lab:

• Dr. S. Schlamp from Prof. T. Rösgen's team received the Atomic Spectroscopy Award for an article.

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

• C. Roth from Rudolf von Rohr's team won the 2008 Swiss Society for Chemical Engineering first prize for his MS thesis.

• Siegwart's Autonomous Systems Laboratory:

• Marco Hutter from Prof. R. Siegwarts Team received the Hans-Eggenberger-Preis 2009 for his Master Thesis "Hopping with an Articulated Robotic Leg".
• Dr. Davide Scaramuzza from Prof. Siegwart's team won the Robotdalen Scientific Award for his doctoral thesis.
• Prof. R. Siegwart was elected to the board of the Swiss National Science Foundation, Program "Target Research" as of January 2009.
• Prof. R. Siegwart was elected to the "Hochschulrat der FH-Rapperswil" 2008.
• Prof. R. Siegwart received "The Golden Tricycle" for his family friendly supervision at ETH Zurich.
• Prof. R. Siegwart gave the keynote lecture at the TAROS - Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems in Edinburgh, 2008 and at the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems in Baden-Baden, 2008.
• Dr. A. Noth from Prof. R. Siegwart's team completed a 27 hr autonomous flight with the Skysailor from ASL in 2008; ETH-Life article in German.

• Snedeker's Institute for Biomechanics:

• 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).
• Guido Bartalena from Prof. Snedeker's team was awarded the SJB Poster Award at the Third Switzerland-Japan Workshop on Biomechanics 2009 in Engelberg, Switzerland.

• Steinfeld's Professorship in Renewable Energy Carriers:

• Prof. A. Steinfeld received the "2008 ASME Yellott Award" for outstanding contributions to solar energy research & education.
• Jan Wurzbacher received the 2009 ETH Medal for his MSc thesis entitled “A non-stationary solar thermal power cycle”.
• Dr. Andreas Z’Graggen received the 2009 HILTI Award to for his PhD thesis entitled "Solar Gasification of Carbonaceous Materials - Reactor Design. Modeling, and Experimentation".
• Philipp Good received the 2009 ETH Excellence Scholarship Award to investigate solar water desalination.

• Spin-offs:

• The ETH Spin-off compliant concept was awarded the Heuberger Jungunternehmerpreis.
• The ETH Spin-off FemtoTools GmbH was selected as one of the three winners of the 2009 Swiss Technology Award (3rd place).