Awards

Zurich Instruments Award for the best UZH PhD thesis in experimental physics

Dectris prize for best UZH master thesis in experimental physics

Soluyanov prize for best UZH master thesis in theoretical physics

Awards in 2025

Anson Kwong: poster award at the 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

Brigitte Decrausaz is awarded the Dectris Prize for the best experimental physics master thesis on "Magnons in the Multiferroic Ni3TeO6".
Maryna Mesiura is awarded the Soluyanov Prize for the best theoretical physics master thesis
on "On the combinations of triangles, memories and gyroscopes"

Livio Redard-Jacot is awarded the Dectris Prize for the best experimental physics master thesis
on "Search for Radiation from Wave Function Collapse and Electric Field Characterization in XENONnT".
Mohammad Alminawi is awarded the Soluyanov Prize for the best theoretical physics master thesis
on "Composite Nambu-Goldstone Higgs Models"

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) won the 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)

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