The Rössler Prize, offered by the ETH Zurich Foundation, is a monetary prize that has been awarded annually since 2009 to a promising young tenured professor of the

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in the middle of an accelerating career.''Rössler-Preis: Voraussetzungen.''
ETH Zurich. Retrieved 6 August 2019 The prize of 200,000 Swiss Francs is financed by the returns from an endowment made by

Max Rössler Max Rössler (born 1940) is a Swiss investor and philanthropist that has invested in a number of businesses in Switzerland and sits on the board of a number of those companies. He has used his private wealth to donate to a number of causes incl ...

, 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 Gerald H. Haug (born 14 April 1968 in Karlsruhe, Germany) is a German geologic climatologist, prize winner of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and since 2007 he has a professorship at the ETH Zürich in Switzerland. In 2015 he became director ...

, Geology of Climate * 2011:

Andreas Wallraff Andreas Wallraff is a German physicist who conducts research in quantum information processing and quantum optics. He has taught as a professor at ETH Zürich in Zürich, Switzerland since 2006. He worked as a research scientist with Robert J. Sc ...

, Solid State Physics * 2012:

Nicola Spaldin Nicola Ann Spaldin (born 1969)Nicola Spaldin's FRS is Professor of Materials Theory 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 Olivier Voinnet (born 1973) is a French biologist and professor of RNA biology at the ETH Zurich. Voinnet obtained his PhD in 2001 in England in the group of David Baulcombe and later obtained a position as an independent group leader at the CNR ...

, RNA Biology * 2014:

Christian Wolfrum Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρισ ...

, Health Sciences and Technology * 2015:

David J. Norris David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

, Mechanical and Process Engineering * 2016:

Christophe Copéret Christophe may refer to: People * Christophe (given name), list of people with this name * Christophe (singer) (1945–2020), French singer * Cristophe (hairstylist) (born 1958), Belgian hairstylist * Georges Colomb (1856–1945), French comic ...

, Chemistry and Applied Biosciences * 2017:

Olga Sorkine-Hornung Olga Sorkine-Hornung (born 1981) is a professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich working in the fields of computer graphics, geometric modeling and geometry processing. She has received multiple awards, including the ACM SIGGRAPH Significa ...

, Computer Science * 2018: Philippe Block, 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 ...

, Inorganic chemistry/NanotechnologyM. 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 biologist 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 protein ...

, Biology * 2021: Andreas Krause,

Machine Learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

* 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 Computational biology refers to the use of data analysis, mathematical modeling and computational simulations to understand biological systems and relationships. An intersection of computer science, biology, and big data, the field also has fou ...

''Tanja Stadler erhält Rössler-Preis.''
ETH News, ethz.ch. Retrieved 23 June 2022.

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Laureates

See also

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