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
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 partici ...
, 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, 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, RNA Biology
* 2014:
Christian Wolfrum, Health Sciences and Technology
* 2015:
David J. Norris, Mechanical and Process Engineering
* 2016:
Christophe Copéret, Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
* 2017:
Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Computer Science
* 2018:
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, Architecture
* 2019:
Maksym Kovalenko, Inorganic chemistry/Nanotechnology
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''Bright triplet excitons in caesium lead halide perovskites.''
nature, 10 January 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2019
*2020:
Paola Picotti, 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, Mathematics and
Computational evolutionary biology''Tanja Stadler erhält Rössler-Preis.''
ETH News, ethz.ch. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
See also
* 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 ...
* Prizes named after people
A prize is an award to be given to a person or a group of people (such as sporting teams and organizations) to recognize and reward their actions and achievements.
Notes and references
External links
Official website
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