Awards

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.

Since 2016, the Charpak-Ritz Prize has been awarded jointly by the
French Physical Society and the Swiss Physical Society to a physicist or
team of physicists for outstanding contributions to physics or its
development.

The group of Prof. Isa receives the ERC Proof of Concept Grant for their project "Refractive Index Observer (RIO)"

On 19 June 2025, the MaP Graduate Symposium brought together the Materials and Processes (MaP) Community at ETH Zürich for its 20th annual gathering. The Department of Materials was again very successfully represented this year.

The Prix Schläfli, awarded by the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT), is one of the oldest prizes in Switzerland and rewards outstanding dissertations in the natural sciences since 1866. Bestowed every three years, the Prix Schläfli in Physics goes this year to advances in the control of ferroelectric order using light.

Professor Nicola Spaldin, head of the Materials Theory group and a pioneer in multiferroic materials, will receive the prestigious Carus Medal from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

At its meeting of 6/7 March 2025 the ETH Board appointed Professor Athina Anastasaki (*1988), currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor, as Associate Professor of Sustainable Polymers.

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.