Honors and Awards 2010

 

• Abhari’s Laboratory for Energy Conversion:

• Dr. Thomas Mokulys, past doctoral student of Prof. R. Abhari, has been awarded the Donald Julius Groen Prize by the Thermofluids Group of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers for his paper "Unsteady numerical investigation of the effects of wakes with eddy shedding in different axial turbine aerofoils".

• Boulouchos' Aerothermochemistry and Combustion Systems Laboratory:

• Patrick Kirchen, past doctoral student of Prof. K. Boulouchos, has been awarded the Kamm-Jante-Medal 2010 from the scientific association WKM for the best thesis in the area of Motor Technology in the German area.

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

• Prof. R. D'Andrea wins the Goldene Eule 2010 award for teaching excellence.
• Prof. R. D'Andrea held a plenary presentation at 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation from May 3-8, 2010 in Anchorage, Alaska.

• Dual's Center of Mechanics:

• Dr. Stefano Oberti received the Georg A. Fischer Award 2010 for his excellent Thesis entitled "Micromanipulation of Small Particles within Micromachined Fluidic Systems Using Ultrasound", carried out under the supervision of Prof. J. Dual.

• Ermanni's Centre of Structure Technologies:

• The Spin-off compliant concept received the CTI Medtech Award 2010 for its "Intelligent Bed System for the Prevention and Therapy of Decubitus Ulcers".

• Guzzella's Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control:

• Dr. Christian Dönitz from Prof. Dr. Guzzella's Team has been awarded the ETH Medal 2010 for his outstanding dissertation "Hybrid Pneumatic Engines".

• The research project «Hybrid Pneumatic Engine» of the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control was awarded the KPMG's Inspiration Grant.

• Stephan Zentner received the Graduate Prize of the SEW-Eurodrive Foundation for his excellent master thesis "Supercharging a Pneumatic Hybrid Engine (PHybE) Design, Identification and Control" under the supervision of Prof. Guzzella.

• The hybrid pneumatic engine team of Prof. L. Guzzella was awarded the swiss energy award "Watt d'Or 2010" by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE for its contributions towards a better fuel economy of passenger cars.

• Hierold's Professorship in Micro and Nanosystems:

• Dr. Thomas Markus Helbling from Prof. Hierold's Group has been awarded the ETH Medal 2010 for his outstanding dissertation "Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors as Electromechanical Transducers".

• Etienne Schwyter as part of the Spin-off greenTEG has received the De Vigier Award 2010.

• Dr. Thomas Helbling wins together with Marta Bally and Anja Hänzi the Materials Research Prize 2010, which was awarded for the first time at ETH Zurich, and which honors his outstanding research work during his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Ch. Hierold.

• Kleiser's Institute of Fluid Dynamics

• Prof. L. Kleiser has been elected by the Amercian Physical Society (APS) as Fellow of the American Physical Society for pioneering contributions to the development of accurate numerical methods for computational fluid dynamics, and for their application.

• Prof. Kleiser's team in collaboration with our partners at the University Hospital Zurich (USZ) and the University Stuttgart received the "Award for the best poster at the 97th Convention of the Swiss Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery (SGORL) titled Effects of Stapes Rocking Motions on Cochlea Response.

• Mazza's Center of Mechanics:

• The Spin-off compliant concept received the CTI Medtech Award 2010 for its "Intelligent Bed System for the Prevention and Therapy of Decubitus Ulcers".

• Mazzotti's Separation Processes Laboratory:

• Dr. Jeroen Cornel from Prof. Dr. Mazzotti's Team has been awarded the ETH Medal 2010 for his outstanding dissertation "In situ monitoring and modelling of crystallization process".

• Dr. Ronny Pini with Prof. M. Mazzotti's team is awarded the ABB Forschungspreis 2010 for his excellent PhD thesis "Enhanced Coal Bed Methane Recovery Finalized to Carbon Dioxide Storage".

• Johannes Kluge with Prof. M. Mazzotti's Team (Institute of Process Engineering) won the ISMANAM Poster Prize for his poster with the title Stability of Pharmaceutical Drug-Polymer Nano-Composites Produced by Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Emulsions.

• Prof. M. Mazzotti has been elected President of the International Adsorption Society for the term 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2013.

• Müller's Institute for Biomechanics:

• Rachel Sondergaard, from Prof. R. Müller's team, received the Merit Award as the best intern in mechanical engineering from the University of Calgary Schulich School of Engineering.

• Dr. Jörg Goldhahn and Zach Lerner from Prof. R. Müller's Biomechanics team have won the KPMG's Inspiration Grant for their research project entitled “Early Recognition of Malfunctions in Joint Prostheses”.

• Silke Wüst, a doctoral student from Prof. R. Müller's Biomechanic's team received the BMT 2010 Student Award from the German, Austrian and Swiss Societies of Biomedical Engineering for her presentation on Optimization of extracellular matrix production of silk scaffolds.

• Friedericke Schulte from Prof. R. Müller's team received the 2010 ESB Student Award from the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB); at the same meeting, Andreas Wirth received the ESB Student Runner-up Award.

• Andreas Wirth from Prof. R. Müller's group won the Best Student Oral Presentation Award from the Swiss Society for Biomaterials at the 18th European Conference on Orthopaedics.

• The Spin-off Pearltec AG received the De Vigier Award 2010.

• Floor Lambers from Prof. R. Müller 's group was selected for a 2010 ECTS Travel Award from the European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS).

• Dr. Davide Ruffoni from Prof. Müllers Team received the 2010 IOF SERVIER Young Investigator Research Award from the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF).

• Dr. Davide Ruffoni from Prof. Müllers Team received the 2010 ECTS Postdoctoral Fellowship Award of the European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS).

• Friederike Schulte from Prof. Müller's team received the ECTS New Investigator Award of the European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS) for her work on mechanostat theory.

• Nelson's Multiscale and Robotics Lab:

• Prof. B. Nelson received the ERC Advanced Grant for his research project in Microrobotics and Nanomedicine.

• Dr. Felix Beyeler from Prof. Dr. Nelson's Team has been awarded the ETH Medal 2010 for his outstanding dissertation "Capacitive Micro Force Sensing for Biological and Biomedical Applications".

• Olgac Ergeneman from Prof. B. Nelson's team received the Best Student Paper Award for Europe as well as Second Prize Overall at the 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC2010) held in Buenos Aires 31 Aug to 4 Sept 2010.

• The Cyborg Fly Project, a collaboration between the 'Fly Group' at ETH/University of Zurich, led by Stefen Fry and the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, was a finalist in the robotics category at this year's Graphical System Design Achievement Awards; Article.

• Prof. B. Nelson's team has been awarded the 1. Poster award at the Materials Research Center Symposium 2010 on May 10, 2010.

• At this year's ICRA2010, four awards go to Prof. B. Nelson's team: the Best Student Paper Award to Kathrin Peyer, the Best Automation Paper Award to Michael Kummer and two awards for the winning team of the ICRA2010 Robot Challenge.

• Dr. Li Zhang et al., IRIS received the 'Best Paper Award' for his paper "Noncontact and Contact Micromanipulation Using a Rotating Nickel Nanowire" at the IEEE-NANOMED 2010 conference.

• Park's Nanoscience for Energy Technology and Sustainability Laboratory:

• Prof. H.G. Park received the R&D100 Editor Award for his work developing nanostructured membranes for water purification.

• Prof. H. G. Park received the 2010 R&D 100 Award for his invention of the “Ultrapermeable Carbon Nanotube Membranes Technology", developed in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

• Pratsinis' Particle Technology Laboratory:

• Robert Büchel from Pratsinis' team received the Best Paper Award for Nanoparticles from the Particle Technology Forum for his oral presentation on "Two-Nozzle Flame Synthesis of NOx Storage Reduction Catalysts" and was recognized with a plaque on 10 November 2010 in Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

• Dr. Björn Schimmoeller from Pratsinis' team was selected for a Chemical Reaction Engineering Division (CRE) Poster Award for his presentation "Structure of Flame-Made Vanadia/Silica and Catalytic Behavior in the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane" at the 2010 Annual Meeting of AIChE in Salt Lake City, USA.

• Dr. Adrian Camenzind from Prof. Dr. Pratsinis Team has received the ETH Medal Award 2010 for his outstanding dissertation "Nanoparticles for Composites: Aggregates & Agglomerates".

• Dr. Antonio Tricoli won the HILTI Preis 2010 for his excellent PhD thesis "Gas Sensitive Nanostructured Films by Direct Flame Synthesis and Deposition".

• Riener's Sensory Motor Systems Lab:

• Christoph Hollnagel (Group Prof. R. Riener) receives the best presentation award (second prize) at the AUTOMED conference in Zurich for his presentation "Ein iterativ lernender Regler für den MR-kompatiblen Stepper MARCOS".

• Prof. R. Riener et al. won the Best Paper Award of the IEEE TNSRE, officially announced at the 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in Argentina, August 31 - September 4, 2010.

• Prof. Robert Riener receives a special appreciation of the Fürst Donnersmarck-Stiftung zu Berlin for extraordinary scientific achievements in the field of rehabilitation with the project ARMin.

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

• Prof. Philipp Rudolf von Rohr has been elected as a member of the research department IV of the Swiss National Foundation (SNF) promoting scientific research.

• Nora Assmann from Prof. Rudolf von Rohr's team won the poster award at the 11th International Conference on Microreaction Technology in Kyoto, Japan.

• Siegwart's Autonomous Systems Laboratory:

• Niels Lehmann and Moritz Meenen from Prof. Dr. Siegwart's Autonomous Systems Laboratory-Team received KPMG's Inspiration Grant for their project «Entlastung des Stadtverkehrs mittels flexibler und individueller elektrischer Mobilität» to improve urban air.

• Dr. Wolfgang Fischer from Prof. Dr. Siegwart's Team has been awarded the ETH Medal 2010 for his outstanding dissertation "Design of compact climbing robots of power plant inspection".

• Prof. R. Siegwarts Team, in cooperation with EPF Lausanne and Alstom received the "EUROP/EURON Robotics Technology Transfer Award" for their joint project "AirGapCrawler" robot.

• Prof. Roland Siegwart, professor at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering and Head of the Autonomous System Lab has been elected as Vice President for Research and Corporate Relations at ETH Zurich.

• Snedeker's Institute for Biomechanics:

• Yannick Loosli from Prof. J. Snedeker's team received a CCMX Matlife Student Travel Award for his work presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Biointerface Sciences, Les Diablerets, Switzerland (Sept 5-10, 2010).

• Steinfeld's Professorship in Renewable Energy Carriers:

• The doctoral students Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher from Prof. A. Steinfeld's team received the Venture Kick Grant of CHF 130'000 for their Spin-off Climeworks.