Awards

Zurich Instruments Award für die beste Doktorarbeit in Experimentalphysik

Dectris Preis für die beste Masterarbeit in Experimentalphysik

Soluyanov Preis für die beste Masterarbeit in theoretischer Physik

Awards in 2025

Anson Kwong: Posterpreis an der FCC week 2025
Max Lüscher: UZH Semesterpreis for his thesis on Super-Inkjet Printed Three-Terminal Graphene Field Effect Transistors with 10μm Channel Length. Exploration of a New Method for Fast Electrical Characterization of Graphene

Maryna Mesiura: Soluyanov Prize für die beste theoretische Masterarbeit über
"On the combinations of triangles, memories and gyroscopes"
Brigitte Decrausaz: Dectris Prize für de beste experimentelle Masterarbeit über
"Magnons in the Multiferroic Ni3TeO6".

Mohammad Alminawi: Soluyanov Prize für die beste theoretische Masterarbeit über
"Composite Nambu-Goldstone Higgs Models"
Livio Redard-Jacot: Dectris Prize für de beste experimentelle Masterarbeit über
"Search for Radiation from Wave Function Collapse and Electric Field Characterization in XENONnT".

Jens Oppliger (group Natterer & Chang): Dectris prize for the best experimental master thesis at our institute: Sparse sampling for fast quasiparticle interference mapping using a scanning tunneling microscope and Deep learning based denoising of low counting statistics X-ray diffraction data
David Urwyler (group Neupert): Soluyanov Prize for the best theoretical master thesis at our institute: Hyperbolic topological band insulators
Dario de Simone (group Serra) wins an award at LHCP2022 for his poster describing SND@LHC (JPG, 2 MB)
Michael Dennler (group Neupert) gets the SPS General Physics Award for his research on topological insulators
Nikita Astrakhantsev (group Neupert) and his team (Opti-Maze) won the MIT quantum computing Hackathon (https://twitter.com/iQu_ISE/status/1487933628856233984) in the Challenge of Microsoft & IonQ.
Yumeng Xu (group Jetzer) won the second prize for the best poster (PDF, 5 MB) in the GWPAW conference held in Hannover, Germany (prize-winners)

Vera Hiu-Sze Wu (group Baudis): Dectris prize for the best experimental master thesis at our institute. Title of her thesis: Low Energy Calibration for GERDA and Characterization of Wavelength-shifters and Reflectors
Kenny Choo (group Neupert), won the 2021 SPS thesis award for his PhD work on Neural Network Quantum States in the category Computational Physics.
Marino Missiroli (group Caminada) won a CMS award
For his exceptional contributions to the trigger in almost every single area: online operations, data quality monitoring, Run2/Run3 preparation, and the jet/MET effort for Phase-II
Nudzeim Selimovic, (group Isidori), won the first prize on the Bosnian competition for best 3-min outreach video presentation on their PhD program (announcement)

Jens Oppliger (group Natterer) received the UZH Semester award for his outstanding bachelor work on 'Sparse Sampling in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy'
Claudio Andrea Manzari: received the Vito Volterra Prize” for young researchers awarded by the Italian Physical Society ( https://www.sif.it/attivita/congresso/106/premiati)
Claudio Andrea Manzari: LHCP2020 poster prize ( https://indico.cern.ch/event/856696/contributions/3881304/attachments/2048130/3432096/LHCP2020_poster_awards.pdf ) for his poster 'modified lepton couplings and the Cabibbo-Angle Anomaly'
Frank Schindler: SPG Thesis award for his work on "Higher-order topological insulators"
Stefan Hochrein: UZH Semester price for his Bachelor thesis on "Calibration of the first dual-phase xenon time projection chamber with silicon photomultiplier readout"

Karin von Arx: Dectris price for her Master thesis "Discovery of a Collective Orbital Excitation in Ca₃Ru₂O₇_""
Daniel Salerno: CMS PhD thesis award for his work on "Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson Produced in Association with Top Quarks in the Fully Hadronic Final State at the CMS Experiment"
Frank Schindler: Mercator Jury award for his research on crystals with new properties