Awards and prizes
A selection of awards and distinctions presented to members of the Department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich.
2024
Prof. Dr. Timothy Eglinton
Recipient of the external pageAlfred Treibs Award 2024, presented by the Geochemical Society's Organic Geochemistry Division.
Prof. Dr. Taras Gerya
Recipient of the external pageAugustus Love Medal 2024 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Geodynamics Division.
2023
Prof. Dr. Taras Gerya
“Goldene Eule” of VSETH: The Golden Owl is awarded by the students and honours lecturers who have provided exceptional teaching.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Fichtner
Departmental winner of the Dandelion Entrepreneurship Award 2023, which recognises professors for their outstanding efforts to promote entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich.
Luca Dal Zilio receives Jason Morgan Early Career Award
Luca Dal Zilio will be presented with the AGU Jason Morgan Early Career Award. The award is presented annually to an early career scientist for outstanding and significant contributions to tectonophysics through a combination of research, education, and outreach activities.
focusTerra
For the upcoming exhibition “Keep It CO2OL”, a team around focusTerra receives the prize external pageOptimus Agora 2023 by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
Prof. Dr. Derek Vance and Prof. Dr. Gerald Haug
Elected as external pageFellow and Foreign Member of the Royal Society for their outstanding contributions to the advancement of science.
Dr. Vincenzo Picotti
The ETH Board awarded the title of Professor to Senior Lecturer Vincenzo Picotti. Article in ETH News
Simon Stähler awarded the 2023 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize
ETH Zurich Earthquake scientist, Simon Stähler and colleagues were presented with the 2023 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Newcomb Cleveland Prize for their paper on "Seismic Detection of the Martian Core" published in the prestigious journal, Science.
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2022
Dr. Andrea Galli
“Goldene Eule” of VSETH: The Golden Owl is awarded by the students and honours lecturers who have provided exceptional teaching.
Dr. Cindy De Jonge
SNSF Starting Grant “ROOTS: Reconstructing soil fertility across time and space”, Swiss National Science Foundation
Prof. Dr. Donat Fäh
Departmental winner of the Dandelion Entrepreneurship Award 2022, which recognises professors for their outstanding efforts to promote entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich.
Prof. Dr. Susan Ivy Ochs
Recipient of the external pageDEUQUA Honorary-Medal of the German Quaternary Association for her outstanding scientific merits in the field of Quaternary sciences, particularly regarding geochronology.
Prof. Dr. Peter Ulmer
Recipient of the external pageNorman L. Bowen Award from the Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
focusTerra
The participative online exhibition "TRAVEL STONES" won the external page"Open Box Special" award in the multimedia competition "Fast Forward Science".
Dr. Nathalie Dubois
The ETH Board awarded the title of Professor to Nathalie Dubois, Lecturer in the Departments of Earth Sciences and Environmental Systems Science. Article in ETH News
Dr. Luca Dal Zilio
Recipient of the external pagePrix Schläfli 2022 of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) for the best dissertation (Geosciences).
Dr. Paolo Sossi
ERC Starting Grant “Production of Secondary Atmospheres”, European Research Council, Belgium. Article in ETH News
2021
Dr. Henner Busemann
The ETH Board awarded the title of Professor to Senior Scientist Henner Busemann. Article in ETH News
Dr. Andrea Galli
“Goldene Eule” of VSETH: The Golden Owl is awarded by the students and honours lecturers who have provided exceptional teaching.
Dr. Paolo Sossi
Recipient of the 2021 external pageHoutermans Award of the European Association of Geochemistry (EAG).
2020
Prof. Dr. Taras Gerya
“Goldene Eule” of VSETH: The Golden Owl is awarded by the students and honours lecturers who have provided exceptional teaching.
Prof. Dr. Whitney Behr
ERC Starting Grant “Sediments and Subduction Interface Mechanics: from micro-scale creep to global plate tectonics”, European Research Council, Belgium. Article in ETH News
Dr. Jordon Hemingway
Currently a Postdoc Fellow at Harvard University. ERC Starting Grant «RESpiReS», European Research Council, Belgium. Article in ETH News
Prof. Dr. Maria Schönbächler
Recipient of the inaugural external pageMeteoritical Society Jessberger Award
Prof. Dr. Hansruedi Maurer
external pageFrank Frischknecht Leadership Award by the SEG (Near-Surface Geophysics Technical Section) and the EEGS (Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society).
2019
Dr. Jonas Ruh
Paul Niggli Medal, Swiss Society of Mineralogy and Petrology
Dr. Jordan Aaron
“Goldene Eule” of VSETH: The Golden Owl is awarded by the students and honours lecturers who have provided exceptional teaching.
Prof. Dr. Domenico Giardini / Prof. Dr. Stefan Wiemer
ERC Synergy Grant "Fault Activation and Earthquake Rupture", European Research Council, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Cara Magnabosco
Recipient of the 2019 Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) Emerging Leader Award, USA
Prof. Dr. Whitney Behr
Recipient of the 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), USA
PD Dr. Susan Ivy Ochs
The ETH Board awarded Susan Ivy Ochs, Scientist in the Department of Physics and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences, the title of Professor. Article in ETH News
Prof. Dr. Andrew Jackson
ERC Advanced Grant “Unravelling Earth's magnetic history and processes”, European Research Council, Belgium. Article in ETH News