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.
Prof. Ursula Keller elected to “Foreign Fellowship” of the Royal Society
Among 90 exceptional researchers, Prof. Ursula Keller has been awarded a “Foreign Fellowship” of the Royal Society. The expert in Ultrafast Laser Physics is the only scientist from Switzerland to receive this honour this year.
Distinguished Paper Award for COMSEC at IEEE Security and Privacy conference
The COMSEC group has won a Distinguished Paper Award at the 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in San Francisco. The group, headed by Prof. Kaveh Razavi, was recognized for their paper titled “Breaking the Barrier: Post-Barrier Spectre Attacks”.
Two Awards: Successful PCIM Conference for D-ITET
Bastian Korthauer and Michel Nagel, both PhD students a D-ITET, have won awards at the PCIM Conference 2025 in Nuremberg. Bastian Korthauer from Prof. Jürgen Biela's Laboratory for High Power Electronic Systems (HPE) won the “Best Paper Award” while Michel Nagel, student in the Advanced Power Semiconductor Laboratory (APS) headed by Prof. Ulrike Grossner, received the “Outstanding Presentation Award”.
Empa-researcher Peter Lendway wins first prize at SNSF scientific image competition
Peter Lendway, PhD student in Prof. Mickaël Perrin’s group for Quantum Devices at Empa, was honoured at the annual SNSF competition. He received the first prize in the video category.
Prof. Lana Josipović received Distinguished Reviewer Award at ASPLOS’25
Prof. Lana Josipović has been awarded the Distinguished Reviewer Award at the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS’25). Congratulations!