Honors and awards

Raffaello D’Andrea, Professor for Dynamic Systems and Control at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering of ETH Zurich, wins the "Pros to Know" award 2022 by "Supply & Demand Chain Executive" magazine. The award recognizes outstanding executives in the supply chain industry.

Nicole Aegerter, co-founder of the MAVT start-up Antefil Composite Tech and doctoral student with Professor Paolo Ermanni at the Laboratory of Composite Materials and Adaptive Structures of the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, is featured Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe 2021 Honoree in Manufacturing and Industry.

Today, the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) is presenting the Watt d’Or energy prize in the Energy-efficient mobility category to the team of Prof. Lino Guzzella and Prof. Christopher Onder from the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control. This award is in recognition of the technology the institute has developed in collaboration with Carrosserie Hess AG.

Dr. Ivo Leibacher from Prof. Jürg Dual’s group, Dr. Arabella Mauri from Prof. Edoardo Mazza’s group, Dr. Christian Peters from Prof. Christofer Hierold’s group and Dr. Gianvito Vilé from D-CHAB were nominated for the MaP Award 2016. The award won by Dr. Gianvito Vilé and presented at the MaP Graduate Symposium 2016 at ETH Zurich on 9 June 2016.

Marko Bjelonic, postdoctoral researcher at the Robotic Systems Lab of Professor Marco Hutter at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering of ETH Zurich, receives the Hans-Eggenberger-Prize for his doctoral thesis in wheeled-legged robotics.

Dr. Eugster from Prof. Glocker’s group, Dr. Gorji from Prof. Jenny’s group, Dr. John from Prof. Kleiser’s group, Dr. Leutenegger from Prof. Siegwarts group, and Dr. Schmitt from Prof. Boulouchos' group received the ETH Medal for their outstanding doctoral thesis in 2015.

Dennis M. Kochmann, Professor of Mechanics and Materials at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering wins the John Argyris Award 2022 by the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) for his contributions in computational mechanics.

Petros Koumoutsakos, Professor of Computational Science at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Process Engineering, has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.

Dr. Ivo Leibacher from Prof. Jürg Dual’s group, Dr. Arabella Mauri from Prof. Edoardo Mazza’s group, Dr. Christian Peters from Prof. Christofer Hierold’s group and Dr. Gianvito Vilé from D-CHAB were nominated for the MaP Award 2016. The award won by Dr. Gianvito Vilé and presented at the MaP Graduate Symposium 2016 at ETH Zurich on 9 June 2016.

In 2018, the following students from the Department of Mechanical and Process Enginerering were awarded the Willi Studer Prize as top Master’s degree students: Ahn Byeongho, Malyuta Danylo, Thureja Deepankur.

Mirko Meboldt, Professor of Product Development and Design at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, has been invited to join the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).

Prof. Dirk Mohr has received the IJP Young Investigator Award for his excellent contribution to the field of plasticity over the past five years. The international award committee emphasized its particularly high appreciation for Prof. Mohr’s balanced portfolio of experimental and theoretical mechanics (applied to both plasticity and ductile fracture).

Pedro Castro Fernandez form Prof. Christoph Müller’s group, Patrick Reissner from Prof. Andreas Stemmer’s group and Steven Wang from D-HEST were nominated for the MaP Image Contest. The award was won by Pedro Castro Fernandez and presented at the MaP Graduate Symposium 2016 at ETH Zurich on 9 June 2016.

Salvador Pané, senior scientist at Professor Bradley Nelson’s Multi-Scale Robotics Lab at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, was honored with the Big-on-Small Award at the International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS).

Prof. Nicolas Noiray received the Best Paper Award at the ASME Turbo Expo 2015 for a contribution presented in 2014 at the same conference.

Professor David Norris, Head of the Optical Materials Engineering Laboratory at the ETH Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, has been named an Optica Fellow 2023. Optica is an international scientific association in the field of optics and photonics.

Today, the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) is presenting the Watt d’Or energy prize in the Energy-efficient mobility category to the team of Prof. Lino Guzzella and Prof. Christopher Onder from the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control. This award is in recognition of the technology the institute has developed in collaboration with Carrosserie Hess AG.

Prof. Dimos Poulikakos was one of the four invited speakers in the Kavli Prize Symposium in Nanoscience. The biannual award ceremony and symposium took place from 5 to 8 September 2016 in Oslo and Trondheim, Norway.

Dr. Georgios Kelesidis received a “Best Three-Minute Presentation Award” at the 6th International Sooting Flame Workshop of 22-23 July 2022 for his presentation on "Porosity and crystallinity dynamics of carbon black during internal and surface oxidation".  

Prof. Giovanni Sansavini and his group were awarded the Best Poster Award for their poster about their study on “Security Analysis of the Operations of Interdependent Electric and Gas Networks” at the 2016 SCCER-FURIES (Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research) Annual Conference on 2 December 2016 in Lausanne.

Thomas Schutzius, Professor and Head of the Laboratory for Multiphase Thermofluidics and Surface Nanoengineering at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, receives the Golden Owl for excellent teaching. The Owl is awarded by the students association of ETH Zurich (VSETH) and honors exceptional teaching.

The paper "Estimating the Potential of State the Art Design Automation – Tasks, Methods, and Benefits" by Eugen Rigger, Clemens Münzer and Prof. Krisitna Shea was rated in the top 5% papers based on reviewers’ scores.

Eugenio Cuniato, doctoral student in Professor Roland Siegwart’s group at the Autonomous Systems Lab at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering received the IROS Best Paper Award on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics for the paper "Power-based Safety Layer for Aerial Vehicles in Physical Interaction using Lyapunov Exponents".

Alexandre Anthis, former doctoral student of Professor Inge Herrmann at the Nanoparticle Systems Engineering Lab, won the MaP Award 2022 for his doctoral thesis "Design and Formulation of Stimuli-Responsive Surgical Materials".  

Pedro Castro Fernandez form Prof. Christoph Müller’s group, Patrick Reissner from Prof. Andreas Stemmer’s group and Steven Wang from D-HEST were nominated for the MaP Image Contest. The award was won by Pedro Castro Fernandez and presented at the MaP Graduate Symposium 2016 at ETH Zurich on 9 June 2016.

Dr. Umang Jivanlal Maradia, former doctoral student in Prof. Konrad Wegeners group, has received the HILTI Award 2016 for his doctoral thesis "Meso - Micro EDM".  

Stephanie Schlatter, former doctoral student of Prof. Konstantinos Boulouchos has been awarded a Kamm-Jante Medal. This prize is awarded every two years for the best dissertation on Engine Combustion Technologies in the German-speaking countries, which means Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The Mesh Mould project team was awarded the Concrete Innovation Award 2017. The team is part of the NCCR Digital Fabrication and is supported, among others, by the Agile and Dexterous Robotics Lab at the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Robohub, the online platform of the Zurich-based ROBOTS Association, has released the 2016 version of the “25 Top Women in Robotics you need to know about”. Margarita Chli and Simone Schürle are honored in this year's list.

The TapTools team Clara Beck, Tom Reuter and Marc Serra Garcia, from Prof. Chiara Daraio's group, won second prize in the competition for the best business ideas at Venture 2015.

Two doctoral students from the research group of Jürg Dual, Professor at the Institute for Mechanical Systems, received awards at the International Congress on Ultrasonics in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Dr. Eugster from Prof. Glocker’s group, Dr. Gorji from Prof. Jenny’s group, Dr. John from Prof. Kleiser’s group, Dr. Leutenegger from Prof. Siegwarts group, and Dr. Schmitt from Prof. Boulouchos' group received the ETH Medal for their outstanding doctoral thesis in 2015.

Michael Grubenmann, a Bachelor student in Prof. Pavel Hora's group, received 3rd place at the Audi Tool Trophy 2016 with his Bachelor's Thesis.

Not one… but two ETH-Zurich spin-offs managed to convince the judging panel from the venture kick initiative and win an advancement award of CHF 130,000. The best start-up projects of the year’s first quarter were a sun-protection app and a chair that can walk.

Michael Gloor, doctoral student in the group of Prof. Leonhard Kleiser, received the Best Student Technical Paper award for his paper on the aeroacoustics of heated coaxial jets that he presented at the 20th AIAA Aeroacoustics Conference (Atlanta, USA, June 2014). At the PASC Conference 14, Zurich, June 2014, Michael Gloor received both the Best Poster Award (Physics), and the Visualization Award.

Agnieszka Ladosz, Doctoral student with Prof. Philipp Rudolf von Rohr, won a Poster Award at the Flow 14 Conferenze on 18 to 21 May 2014 in Enschede, Netherlands.