Honors & Awards

National

Prof. Dr. Aldo Steinfeld was named as an individual member by the SATW in recognition of his contributions as a Pioneer in the field of solar chemical energy engineering research and industrial practice.

Robin Born, from Prof. Siegwart's ASL Group, won the secondary prize from the 2011 SAEE Student Award for his master thesis "Fueling Renewable Energy Diffusion in non-OECD Countries" with supervisor Prof. Hoffman from MTEC.

Prof. Hyung Gyu Park received the 2011 MRC Sandpit Award.

Prof. Aldo Steinfeld received the Idee-Suisse Award 2011 for the pioneering development of a novel solar reactor.

Dr. Lukas Durrer from Prof. Ch. Hierold's group received the Georg A. Fischer Award 2011 for his excellent doctoral thesis "Controlled Single-Walled Carbon Nantotube Growth for Sensing Applications".

Philipp Elbert from Prof. L. Guzzella's IDSC group received the Hans-Eggenberger Award 2010 for his outstanding research work. The MAVT graduate devoted himself to improving the energy efficiency of the Advanced Hybrid Electric Autobus.

International

Roberto Carretta, a doctoral student from Prof. R. Müller's Institute for Biomechanics team, received an ISB Student Dissertation Award from the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB).

Prof. Lino Guzzella was appointed as an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to automotive control systems to reduce pollution emission and fuel consumption.

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.

For their paper Patient-cooperative strategies for robot-aided treadmill training: first experimental results, Prof. R. Riener et al. win the Best Paper Award given by the IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (IEEE TNSRE).

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

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