Awards
Eawags researchers are often being awarded for their outstanding research and accomplishments with national and international Awards.
Otto Jaag Water Protection Prize
The "Otto Jaag Water Protection Prize" recognizes outstanding dissertations and Master's theses in the field of water protection/hydrology at the ETH Zurich.
Awards 2023
Awards 2022
| Awards | Award Winners |
Otto Jaag Water Protection Prize of ETH Zurich | Wenzel Gruber, Urs Schönenberger |
| Clarivate Analytics: Highly Cited Researchers 2022 | Bernhard Truffer |
Mülheim Water Award for Water Wall, awarded by the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr | Eva Reynaert for the projects Blue Diversion and Blue Diversion Autarky of Eawag and EOOS |
ETH Medal for Master's Thesis of ETH Zürich | Frank (Zhao Rui) Zhang |
Rifcon Early Career Scientist Award of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) | Sarah Könemann |
| 2022 Science Innovation Award of the European Geochemical Association (EAG) | Lenny Winkel |
| Geochemistry Fellow Award of the European Geochemical Association (EAG) | Lenny Winkel |
| Appointment as Honorary Members of the Swiss Waste Water Association (VSA) | Janet Hering, Rik Eggen, Johny Wüest |
Awards 2021
| Awards | Award Winners |
| Tove Larsen | |
| Faculty Award of the University of Bern for the best dissertation in Biology | Anna Feller |
Prix Léon Du Pasquier et Louis Perrier of the University of Neuchâtel | Max Ramgraber |
| Clarivate Analytics: Highly Cited Researchers 2021 | Juliane Hollender, Bernhard Truffer, Urs von Gunten |
| Otto Jaag Water Protection Prize | Elisa Calamita |
| Janet Hering | |
| Kristin Schirmer | |
ACS Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology | Urs Von Gunten |
| ETH Medal for Doctoral thesis | Aryeh Feinberg, Moritz Gold, Barbara Günthardt, Matthew Moy de Vitry, Marius Neamtu-Halic |
| International Association of Geochemistry Fellow Award | Janet Hering |
Awards 2020
| Awards | Award Winners |
| ETH Medal for MSc thesis | Gabriel Ulrich |
| ETH Medal for Doctoral thesis | Alma Dal Co |
| ETH Medal for Doctoral thesis | Magdalena Mayr |
| Otto Jaag Waterprotection Prize | Matthew Moy de Vitry |
| Golden Owl Award for excellent teaching at ETH Zurich | David Johnson |
| Clarivate Analytics: Highly Cited Researchers 2020 | Juliane Hollender, Ole Seehausen, Bernhard Truffer, Urs von Gunten |
| DAS Student Paper Award | Fridolin Haag |
| Hydrobiology-limnology prize | Magdalena Mayr |
| ACP Award for Atmospheric Research | Aryeh Feinberg |
| ETH Medal for Doctoral thesis | Jonas Mechelke |
| Volz-Award: Best publication resulting from a PhD thesis in Ecology & Evolution, University of Bern | Cas Retel |
| Rifcon Early Career Scientist Award | Michael Burkard |
| ETHZ-Medal, for PhD thesis | Lena Mutzner |
| SSE Presidents’ Award for Outstanding Dissertation Paper in Evolution (formerly Fisher Prize) | Dorota Paczesniak |
Awards 2019
| ETH Medal for Doctoral thesis | Stefan Achermann |
| ETH Medal for Doctoral thesis | Meret Aeppli |
| Ineson Lecture of the British Geological Society and the International Association of Hydrogeologists | Mario Schirmer |
| Clarivate Analytics: Highly Cited Researchers 2019 | Juliane Hollender, Ole Seehausen, Bernhard Truffer, Urs von Gunten |
| Otto Jaag Waterprotection Prize | Stefan Achermann |
| Golden Owl Award for excellent teaching at ETH Zurich | Lenny Winkel |
| SETAC GLB Award for young scientists for MSc thesis | Hannah Schug |
| Sandmeyer Award of the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) | Michael Berg, Stephan Hug, Annette Johnson (in memoriam), Andreas Vögelin, Lenny Winkel |
| 3R Swiss Competence Centre (3RCC) award | Melanie Fischer, Kristin Schirmer |
| Building Award for NEST | Empa, Eawag, dransfeldarchitekten ag |
| Francesca Gheradi Memorial Prize | Kate Mathers |
| Price of the Faculty of Science of the University of Zurich, for PhD thesis | Chelsea Jean Little |
| ETHZ-Medal, for MSc thesis | Nora Minas |
| Watt d’Or, special "Transition" award for NEST | Empa, Eawag, dransfeldarchitekten ag |
Awards 2018
| ETH-Medal for Doctoral thesis | Caitlin Proctor |
| Clarivate Analytics: Highly Cited Researchers 2018 in Environment/Ecology | Adriano Joss, Urs von Gunten |
| Otto Jaag Waterprotection Prize | Wenfeng Liu |
| Luce Grivat Prize for her Doctoral thesis at EPFL | Carolin Drieschner |
| Clarke Prize of the National Water Research Institute | Janet Hering |
| Early Career Award of the European Health Psychology Society | Jennifer Inauen |
| Key Distinguished Lecturer of the American Genetic Association (AGA) | Ole Seehausen |
| Water Industry Award as "Most Innovative New Technology of the Year", for CENTAUR project | Joao P. Leitao, Jörg Rieckermann, Juan P. Carbajal, Luis de Sousa |
| National Award for Outstanding Doctoral Studies of the Chinese Scholarship Council | Wenfeng Liu |
| Hydrogeology Prize for MSc thesis | Morgane Minnig |
| IFWW-Förderpreis for MSc thesis at University of Stuttgart | Carolin Seller |
| Geochemical Society (GS) & European Association for Geochemistry (EAG): Geochemical Fellow | Janet Hering |