Awards
Eawags researchers are often being awarded for their outstanding research and accomplishments with national and international Awards.
| Awards 2024 | Award Winners |
| Top 10 Planet Protectors on the Analytical Scientist Power List from Texere Publishing | Juliane Hollender |
| Highly Ranked Scholars list, Meta Analytics | Ole Seehausen |
Urs von Gunten, Juliane Hollender, Christa McArdell, Adriano Joss, Marc Böhler, Hansruedi Siegrist, Christian Abegglen | |
11th International Steven Hoogendijk Award (ISHA) of the Batavian Society of Experimental Philosophy | |
PhD award in water chemistry of the German society of water chemistry | Joanna Houska |
"Mall-Umweltpreis Wasser" of the Roland Mall Family Foundation | Marisa Poggioli, Sandro Hunziker |
ALL Award for outstanding teaching performance, University of Bern | |
Linda Schinz, Lena Xue | |
Chemical Landmark from the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) | Eawag |
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 |