Awards

The Materials Research Society has named Nicola Spaldin as the recipient of the 2026 Von Hippel Award, the Society’s highest honour.

We are delighted to inform you that the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation has awarded Maria Clara Novaes Silva the Chorafas Prize for her doctoral thesis. Congratulations!

Each year outstanding doctoral theses of D-MATL are honored with the Silver Medal of ETH Zurich and the SVMT Prize. Congratulations to this year’s awardees in Materials!

On 18 June 2026, the MaP Graduate Symposium brought together the Materials and Processes (MaP) Community at ETH Zürich for its 21th annual gathering. The Department of Materials was again very successfully represented this year.

EQT Foundation has awarded grants to researchers from 11 institutions across 9 countries developing alternatives to critical minerals used in batteries, hydrogen, solar, and industrial systems. André Studart is one of the grantees. Congratulations!

We are delighted to congratulate Mike Pols on being awarded a highly competitive Rubicon grant (2025) by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This prestigious programme supports outstanding early-career researchers in gaining international experience at leading research institutions.

We are pleased to announce that Mike Pols has been awarded the KNCV-CTC PhD Thesis Award, a prestigious distinction recognizing outstanding doctoral research in the chemical sciences.

This year's ETH Day was a great success for D-MATL.

Dr. Jelena Wohlwend, a recent Ph.D. graduate from the Laboratory for Nanometallurgy at ETH Zurich, has been honored with the 2025 VACOM Sustainability Award for her innovative research on self-assembled network metamaterials, a promising class of energy materials.