Zurich Instruments Award
Zurich Instruments awards the best PhD Thesis in Experimental Physics with 1000 CHF.
Excellent PhD students are nominated through their supervisors - and the committee composed of two professors of the Physics Department is judging the written thesis
The judging criteria are clarity, command of the topic, methods and techniques, contribution to scientific knowledge.
Awardees of the Zurich Instuments Award
- 2025: Julia Küspert 'Competing States in the Unconventional Superconductor La2-xSrxCuO4'
Zurich Instruments makes cutting-edge instrumentation for scientists and technologists in advanced laboratories who are passionate about phenomena that are notoriously difficult to measure. The company’s offering includes lock-in amplifiers, quantum computing control systems, impedance analyzers, and arbitrary waveform generators.