Prizes and related events
ETH Zurich awards various prizes to excellent researchers, which are listed below. For further information also see the overview of research prizes awarded by other institutions and the news page for prizes and other honours awarded to or by ETH Zurich.
Latsis Prize and Symposium
The Fondation Latsis Internationale finances the annual ETH Zurich Latsis Prize, which is dedicated to young researchers. The foundation has also been supporting the annual Latsis Symposium since 1986.
Lopez-Loreta Prize / Grant
The Lopez-Loreta Prize has been in existence since 2018 and is given to excellent young researchers of ETH Zurich and three other European universities. The award is used to work on breakthrough scientific discoveries or promising technological innovations.
R?ssler Prize
The R?ssler Prize is awarded to a young professor of ETH Zurich on an annual base. Dr Max R?ssler established the prize to support promising young researchers in the middle of an accelerating career.
Chorafas Prize
Each year, the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation awards the Chorafas Prize to doctoral students of ETH Zurich in engineering, medical and natural sciences who have received a silver medal for their dissertation.
Ru?i?ka Prize
The annual Ru?i?ka Prize is awarded by ETH Zurich to honour research in chemistry conducted in Switzerland or by a Swiss citizen working abroad.
Spark Award
ETH Zurich gives the Spark Award for the most promising invention that was patented in the preceding year.
Julia Vorholt receives the 2025 Novonesis Biotechnology Prize
Julia Vorholt, Professor of Microbiology at the Department of Biology, has been awarded the 2025 Novonesis Biotechnology Prize by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
George Haller receives the 2025 Lyapunov Award
George Haller, Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, has been honoured with the 2025 Lyapunov Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Ruzicka Prize 2024 for Murielle Delley
Towards sustainable catalysis: On February 14, 2025, Prof. Murielle Delley, professor at the University Basel, will receive the 2024 Ruzicka Prize for her work on the controlled surface modification of cobalt phosphide with sulfur. ?