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 2021 | Year | Award Winners |
| Otto Jaag Water Protection Prize | 2021 | Elisa Calamita |
| 2021 | Janet Hering | |
| 2021 | Kristin Schirmer | |
ACS Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology | 2021 | Urs Von Gunten |
| ETH Medal for Doctoral thesis | 2021 | Matthew Moy de Vitry |
| International Association of Geochemistry Fellow Award | 2021 | Janet Hering |
Awards 2020
| Awards | Year | Award Winners |
| ETH Medal for MSc thesis | 2020 | Gabriel Ulrich |
| ETH Medal for Doctoral thesis | 2020 | Alma Dal Co |
| ETH Medal for Doctoral thesis | 2020 | Magdalena Mayr |
| Otto Jaag Waterprotection Prize | 2020 | Matthew Moy de Vitry |
| Golden Owl Award for excellent teaching at ETH Zurich | 2020 | David Johnson |
| Clarivate Analytics: Highly Cited Researchers 2021 | 2020 | Juliane Hollender, Ole Seehausen, Bernhard Truffer, Urs von Gunten |
| DAS Student Paper Award | 2020 | Fridolin Haag |
| Hydrobiology-limnology prize | 2020 | Magdalena Mayr |
| ACP Award for Atmospheric Research | 2020 | Aryeh Feinberg |
| ETH Medal for Doctoral thesis | 2020 | Jonas Mechelke |
| Volz-Award: Best publication resulting from a PhD thesis in Ecology & Evolution, University of Bern | 2020 | Cas Retel |
| Rifcon Early Career Scientist Award | 2020 | Michael Burkard |
| ETHZ-Medal, for PhD thesis | 2020 | Lena Mutzner |
| SSE Presidents’ Award for Outstanding Dissertation Paper in Evolution (formerly Fisher Prize) | 2020 | Dorota Paczesniak |
Awards 2019
| ETH Medal for Doctoral thesis | 2019 | Stefan Achermann |
| ETH Medal for Doctoral thesis | 2019 | Meret Aeppli |
| Ineson Lecture of the British Geological Society and the International Association of Hydrogeologists | 2019 | Mario Schirmer |
| Clarivate Analytics: Highly Cited Researchers 2019 | 2019 | Juliane Hollender, Ole Seehausen, Bernhard Truffer, Urs von Gunten |
| Otto Jaag Waterprotection Prize | 2019 | Stefan Achermann |
| Golden Owl Award for excellent teaching at ETH Zurich | 2019 | Lenny Winkel |
| SETAC GLB Award for young scientists for MSc thesis | 2019 | Hannah Schug |
| Sandmeyer Award of the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) | 2019 | Michael Berg, Stephan Hug, Annette Johnson (in memoriam), Andreas Vögelin, Lenny Winkel |
| 3R Swiss Competence Centre (3RCC) award | 2019 | Melanie Fischer, Kristin Schirmer |
| Building Award for NEST | 2019 | Empa, Eawag, dransfeldarchitekten ag |
| Francesca Gheradi Memorial Prize | 2019 | Kate Mathers |
| Price of the Faculty of Science of the University of Zurich, for PhD thesis | 2019 | Chelsea Jean Little |
| ETHZ-Medal, for MSc thesis | 2019 | Nora Minas |
| Watt d’Or, special "Transition" award for NEST | 2019 | Empa, Eawag, dransfeldarchitekten ag |
Awards 2018
| ETH-Medal for Doctoral thesis | 2018 | Caitlin Proctor |
| Clarivate Analytics: Highly Cited Researchers 2018 in Environment/Ecology | 2018 | Adriano Joss, Urs von Gunten |
| Otto Jaag Waterprotection Prize | 2018 | Wenfeng Liu |
| Luce Grivat Prize for her Doctoral thesis at EPFL | 2018 | Carolin Drieschner |
| Clarke Prize of the National Water Research Institute | 2018 | Janet Hering |
| Early Career Award of the European Health Psychology Society | 2018 | Jennifer Inauen |
| Key Distinguished Lecturer of the American Genetic Association (AGA) | 2018 | Ole Seehausen |
| Water Industry Award as "Most Innovative New Technology of the Year", for CENTAUR project | 2018 | Joao P. Leitao, Jörg Rieckermann, Juan P. Carbajal, Luis de Sousa |
| National Award for Outstanding Doctoral Studies of the Chinese Scholarship Council | 2018 | Wenfeng Liu |
| Hydrogeology Prize for MSc thesis | 2018 | Morgane Minnig |
| IFWW-Förderpreis for MSc thesis at University of Stuttgart | 2018 | Carolin Seller |
| Geochemical Society (GS) & European Association for Geochemistry (EAG): Geochemical Fellow | 2018 | Janet Hering |
Awards 2017
Awards 2016
| Thomson Reuters: Highly Cited Researchers 2016 in Environment/Ecology | 2016 | Adriano Joss, Christa McArdell, Hansruedi Siegrist, Ole Seehausen |
| Volz-Award: Best publication resulting from a PhD thesis in Ecology & Evolution, University of Bern | 2016 | David Marques |
| ETH Medal for Doctoral thesis | 2016 | Sarah Pati |
| ETH Medal for Doctoral thesis | 2016 | Kirsten Oswald |
| ETH Medal for Doctoral thesis | 2016 | Bastianus Vries |
| Otto Jaag Waterprotection Prize | 2016 | Hanspeter Zöllig |
| University Award for students, master thesis, Bauhaus-University Weimar | 2016 | Ulrike Feldmann |
| IWA Fellow, for the period 2016-2020 | 2016 | Kris Villez |
| Kilham Memorial Lecture, International Society of Limnology | 2016 | Ole Seehausen |
| Energy Globe National Award Morocco | 2016 | Bouziane Outiti |
Awards 2015
| Prize for young researchers 2015, Bettencourt Schueller Foundation | 2015 | Clément Vulin |
| Thomson Reuters: Highly Cited Researchers 2015 in Environment/Ecology | 2015 | Adriano Joss, Christa McArdell, Hansruedi Siegrist, Urs von Gunten |
| Otto Jaag Waterprotection Prize | 2015 | Christoph Moschet |
| ETH-Medal for Doctoral thesis | 2015 | Theodora Stewart |
| ETH-Medal for Doctoral thesis | 2015 | Fabian Soltermann |
| ETH-Medal for Doctoral thesis | 2015 | Christoph Moschet |
| Golden Owl Award for excellent teaching at ETH Zurich | 2015 | Martin Ackermann |
| Membership of the US National Academy of Engineering | 2015 | Janet Hering |
| Luce Grivat Prize | 2015 | Yang Yue |
| SETAC GLB Award for young scientists for MSc thesis | 2015 | Christoph Moschet |
| SETAC GLB Award for young scientists for MSc thesis | 2015 | Alena Tierbach |
| Swiss Academies Award for Transdisciplinary Research (Swiss td-award): Early Career Achievement Award | 2015 | Sabine Hoffmann |
| Distinguished Women in Chemistry 2015 Award | 2015 | Janet Hering |
| Harvey M. Rosen Memorial Award | 2015 | Elisabeth Salhi, Urs von Gunten et al. |
| Theodosius-Dobzhansky-Preis | 2015 | Catherine Wagner |
| National Award for Outstanding Doctorial Studies of the Chinese Scholarship Council | 2015 | Yang Yue |
| SETAC Europe: RifCon Award for the best publication in ecotoxicology | 2015 | Hannah Schug |
| Professorship under the CAS President’s International Fellowship for Distinguished Scientists, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Urs von Gunten |