Awards
Interview with Nicola Spaldin ahead of the 2023 Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award Ceremony
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.
Jonathan Schmidt wins the Dorothea Erxleben Prize for the best doctoral thesis
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".
Nicola Spaldin receives the Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award
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".
Bastien Grosso won the IBM Research Forschungspreis 2022
Dr. Bastien Francesco Grosso was awarded the IBM Research Forschungspreis for his outstanding PhD thesis.
Nicola Spaldin received the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics
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.
Sayantika Bhowal wins the IXS2022 early career scientist award
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.
Materials Researcher Nicola Spaldin wins the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics
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.
Nicola Spaldin has been elected foreign associate member by the Académie des sciences
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.
Veronica Michel receives the ETH Medal for her outstanding Master's thesis
We are very pleased to announce that Veronica Michel receives this award for her Master's thesis "Interplay between Ferroelectricity and Metallicity in BaTiO3".
Marek Matas receives the Josef Hlavka Prize
The Josef Hlavka prize is awarded to young researchers that have shown exceptional abilities and creativity in their field of science.