Awards news
Researchers at D-ITET regularly receive honours and prizes for their outstanding scientific work. Below you find a list of the most recent awards.
Six D-ITET Master’s students receive ESOP Scholarships
At D-ITET, six students in the Master's degree programmes in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Energy Science and Technology, and Quantum Engineering have been awarded scholarships from the Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Programme (ESOP).
Great success for SAFARI: Two Intel Hardware Security Awards
The SAFARI Research Group has received two 2026 Intel Hardware Security Academic Awards (IHSAA), recognising both its pioneering RowHammer research and recent work on securing DRAM against read disturbance.
Opening a gateway to the brain: LOOP funding for Prof. Mehmet Fatih Yanik
Professor Mehmet Fatih Yanik is leading a major new research consortium in Zurich that has been awarded a prestigious LOOP grant. Scheduled to start in December 2026, its ambitious goal is to bring a revolutionary new brain-treatment technology out of the lab and into the clinic.
Best Paper Award for Jan Brändle at SEST 2026
Jan Brändle, a doctoral student in Professor Gabriela Hug’s Power Systems Laboratory, has won a Best Paper Award at the 8th International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST) in Ciudad Real, Spain.
SSBE 2026 Research Award for Dr Benedikt Maurer
Dr Benedikt Maurer, now a postdoctoral researcher at Professor Janos Vörös’ Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics (LBB), has won the 2026 Research Award from the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering (SSBE) for his outstanding doctoral thesis.