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Further to our news of March 15th about Prof. Nicola Spaldin receiving the Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award, Chalmers University of Technology has published an interview with her.

We congratulate our postdoc Jonathan Schmidt on the Dorothea-Erxleben-Prize awarded to him for his dissertation "Machine Learning the Thermodynamic Stability of Crystal Structures".

The laureate of the 2023 Lise Meitner Award is Professor Nicola Spaldin, who is awarded for "Fundamental theoretical contributions and discoveries in the field of multiferroics".  

Dr. Bastien Francesco Grosso was awarded the IBM Research Forschungspreis for his outstanding PhD thesis.

At the Hamburg Planetarium, the materials researcher from ETH Zurich was honored for her outstanding work, which led to the development of a new class of materials - the so-called multiferroics. These could enable forward-looking applications in microelectronics, such as the construction of ultra-fast data storage devices or highly sensitive sensors.

Dr. Sayantika Bhowal, postdoctoral researcher at the ETH Materials Theory group (D-MATL), has been selected as one of the winners for the IXS2022 early career scientist awards.

Nicola Spaldin, Professor of Materials Theory at the Department of Materials at ETH Zurich is pioneering the development of a new class of materials known as multiferroics. These could facilitate ground-​breaking microelectronics applications, such as the building of ultra-​fast data repositories or supersensitive sensors.

The French Academy of Sciences have elected 16 new foreign associates. The foreign associates contribute to the international reputation of the Academy and their number cannot go beyond 150.

We are very pleased to announce that Veronica Michel receives this award for her Master's thesis "Interplay between Ferroelectricity and Metallicity in BaTiO₃".

The Josef Hlavka prize is awarded to young researchers that have shown exceptional abilities and creativity in their field of science.  

Nicola Spaldin receives the Award and Medal for pioneering contributions to the fundamental and applied science of magnetic and ferroelectric materials, particularly multiferroics.

Congratulations to our Master Student Veronica Michel for winning the Ferrodevices Student Presentation Award!

The Association of Students at ETH Zurich (VSETH) honours on the ETH Day lecturers who have provided exceptional teaching with the "Golden Owl". For courses in the Department of Materials, the award goes to Nicola Spaldin.

We are very pleased with the news that the outstanding master thesis "Exploring Twin Boundaries and Superconductivity in WO₃" of Noé Mascello is being awarded with the ETH medal.

Dominik Maximilian Juraschek has been awarded the prestigious ETH medal for his outstanding doctoral thesis by ETH Rector Sarah Springman. Congratulations Dominik!

Alexander Hampel has been selected for the Ovshinsky Student Travel Award for the 2019 APS March Meeting in Boston.

Dr. Awadhesh Narayan has been selected for a DMP Post-Doctoral Travel Award for the 2019  APS March Meeting in Boston.

Congratulations! Bastien Grosso, PhD student at the Materials Theory Group, won a poster prize at the Sixth MaTh-Cryst school in Bogotà (26.11.-01.12.18).

We are very proud to announce that Tobias Michael Esswein was selected for an ETH Medal for his oustanding Master Thesis "Exploring Ferroelectric Quantum Criticality and Superconductivity in KTaO₃."

Nicola Spaldin, Professor of Materials Theory at the Department of Materials has received the Honorary Fellowship of Churchill College.

The Materials Research Society has chosen Prof. Nicola Spaldin, Head of the Materials Theory group at ETH Zurich, to receive the Mid-Career Researcher Award for "her new theoretical framework describing multiferroics and service to the materials community".

Nicola Spaldin, Professor of Materials Theory at ETH Zurich, gives a Lise Meitner Lecture on Monday 13 November 2017 in the Vienna Physics Colloquium series.

We are delighted that Dr. Chiara Gattinoni is amongst the winners of the EPSRC Best Use of ARCHER competition, which was run by EPCC on behalf of ARCHER.

Nicola Spaldin, professor at Materials Theory (D-MATL), has been awarded a fellowship granted by the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge.

The Swiss Physical Society Prize for "Outstanding computational physics research from cosmic string formation to multiferroics" is awarded to Sinead M. Griffin. Sinead will present her work at the SPS annual meeting in Geneva on August 22, 2017.

ETH Professor Nicola Spaldin will today be honoured for her revolutionary research in the field of materials science. In Paris, she is set to receive the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science award for Europe, which carries prize money of 100,000 euros.

The ETH Board awarded the title of Professor to Dr. Claude Ederer (*1972), currently Senior Scientist and Lecturer at ETH Zurich, as Adjunct Professor at ETH Zurich. Claude Ederer is a globally recognised expert in the field of materials theory of ferroic systems. Before joining ETH Zurich in 2012, he worked at a number of renowned universities in the United States and Ireland. Congratulations!

Prof. Nicola Spaldin, Chair of Materials Theory, has been selected as the 2017 L’Oréal-UNESCO “For Women in Science” Laureate for Europe. This award recognizes her groundbreaking multidisciplinary work predicting, describing and creating new materials that have switchable magnetic and ferroelectric properties.

Thomson Reuters' 2015 annual list of highly cited researchers.

The Körber Prize on YouTube, podcast and other media.

As reported earlier, Prof. Nicola Spaldin received the Köber Prize yesterday. Please read her interview in ETH News about materials science and why she loves unanswered questions.

Dr. Sinead M. Griffin is the winner of the MaP Award 2015. The MaP awards a prize to the best interdisciplinary PhD thesis of ETH Zurich in the area of Materials and Processes.

Nicola Spaldin was selected as Outstanding Referee for 2015 by the American Physical Society (APS).

Ulrich Aschauer has been awarded an SNSF Professorship grant to continue his work on "Theoretical investigation of photocatalytic water splitting on surfaces and thin films of perovskite oxynitrides" at the University of Berne.

Carlo Weingart is awarded the "IBM Research Prize 2013" for his Master thesis "Origin of spin canting in multiferroic perovskites".

Nicola Spaldin, Professor of Materials Theory at ETH Zurich, has been honored as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA.

Nicola Spaldin, Professor of Materials Theory at ETH Zurich’s Department of Materials, receives the "Max Rössler Prize 2012".

Prof. Nicola Spaldin, Materials Theory, has successfully applied for an ERC Advanced Grant: Coupled and Competing Instabilities in Complex Oxides (CCICO).