The Rössler Prize, offered by the
ETH Zurich Foundation
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, is a monetary prize that has been awarded annually since 2009 to a promising young tenured professor of the
ETH Zurich
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in the middle of an accelerating career.
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ETH Zurich. Retrieved 6 August 2019 The prize of 200,000
Swiss Franc
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s is financed by the returns from an endowment made by
Max Rössler, an alumnus of the ETH. The prize money has to be used for the research of the laureate.
Laureates
* 2009:
Nenad Ban
Nenad Ban is a biochemist born in Zagreb, Croatia who currently works at the ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, as a professor of Structural Molecular Biology. He is a pioneer in studying gene expression mechanisms and the particip ...
, Microbiology
* 2010:
Gerald Haug, Geology of Climate
* 2011:
Andreas Wallraff, Solid State Physics
* 2012:
Nicola Spaldin
Nicola Ann Spaldin (born 1969)Nicola Spaldin's FRS is professor of materials science at ETH Zurich, known for her pioneering research on multiferroics.
Education and early life
A native of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, Spaldin earned a ...
, Material Science
* 2013:
Olivier Voinnet, RNA Biology
* 2014: , Health Sciences and Technology
* 2015:
David J. Norris
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.
The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damas ...
, Mechanical and Process Engineering
* 2016:
Christophe Copéret Christophe may refer to:
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, Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
* 2017:
Olga Sorkine-Hornung
Olga Sorkine-Hornung (Hebrew: אולגה סורקין-הורנונג, Russian: Ольга Соркин-Хорнунг; born 1981) is a professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich working in the fields of computer graphics, geometric modeling and ...
, Computer Science
* 2018:
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, Architecture
* 2019:
Maksym Kovalenko
Maksym V. Kovalenko (born 1982) is a full professor of inorganic chemistry and the head of the Functional Inorganic Materials group at ETH Zurich. A part of the research activities of the group are conducted at Empa (Dübendorf). He is working i ...
, Inorganic chemistry/Nanotechnology
[M. A. Becker et al.:]
''Bright triplet excitons in caesium lead halide perovskites.''
nature, 10 January 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2019
*2020:
Paola Picotti
Paola Picotti (born 1977) is an Italian biochemist who is Professor for Molecular Systems Biology at ETH Zürich. She is Deputy Head of the Institute for Molecular Systems Biology. Her research investigates how the conformational changes of protei ...
, Biology
* 2021: ,
Machine Learning
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* 2022:
Tanja Stadler
Tanja Stadler is a mathematician and professor of computational evolution at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). She’s the current president of the Swiss Scientific Advisory Panel COVID-19 and Vize-Chair of the Department of ...
, Mathematics and
Computational evolutionary biology
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* 2023: , Mathematics
* 2024: ,
Robotics
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Within mechanical engineering, robotics is the design and construction of the physical structures of robots, while in computer s ...
[Deborah Kiburz]
''At the intersection of robotics and machine learning.''
News, ETH Zurich, June 21, 2024. Retrieved June 24, 2024
See also
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Science and technology in Switzerland
Science and technology in Switzerland play an important role in the Swiss economy, which has very few natural resources that are available in the country. The Swiss National Science Foundation, mandated by the Federal government, is the most ...
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Prizes named after people
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See also
* Lists of awards
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References
External links
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Academic awards
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Awards established in 2009