Awards

On January 24, 2025, D-MATL celebrated their latest graduates at the Master’s degree graduation ceremony. It was a wonderful evening with an inspiring speech by Dr. Franziska Brem from Sensirion, a fun look back by the graduates and a celebration of all study achievements.

The Golden Owl honours lecturers who have provided exceptional teaching and motivates them to continue with their excellent teaching.

Carla Fernandez-Rico has been awarded the SNSF Group Leader Ambizione Fellowship to start her independent research within the Complex Materials' group.

Each year outstanding doctoral theses are honored with the Silver Medal of ETH Zurich. This year’s awardees that were supervised by a D-MATL faculty member received their medal at the last doctoral awards ceremony on July 12, 2024.

This well deserved honour recognises Nicola Spaldin's pioneering research on multiferroics. The Honorary Doctorates has been conferred at a special ceremony on June 25th at the Queen's University Belfast.

Athina Anastasaki, Head of Polymeric Materials, receives the 2024 Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award which recognizes significant research innovation and achievement in a polymer scientist under 40.

Congratulations to Alberto for winning the prize for his poster "solid_dmft: Grey-​boxing the description of strongly correlated materials" on the occasion of the 20-​years-of Nanosience celebration.

Each year the world's largest association in magnetism – the Division of Magnetism of the German Physical Society (DPG) awards the INNOMAG Prize for the best dissertation. This year it goes deep into the quantum world where magnetism competes with other correlated states.

Athina Anastasaki, Head of Polymeric Materials, receives the 2024 Macromolecular Rapid Communications Junior Researcher Award in the fields of chemistry, physics and application of polymer systems.