Awards
2024
WILEY Top Downloaded Article:
Congratulations to:
Prof. Dr. Alexander Puzrin
Whose paper was one of the most downloaded during its first 12 months of publication in:
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
Paper: How Small Slip Surfaces Evolve Into Large Submarine Landslides-Insight From 3D Numerical Modeling
2023
Environmental Geotechnics Prize 2023
Prof. Dr. Alexander Puzrin
Paper: Sustainable environmental geotechnics practices for a green economy
Published in: Environmental Geotechnics
Awarded by: Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)
2022
ICE Publishing Award: Overseas Prizes
Prof. Dr. Alexander Puzrin
Paper: Landslide influence zone - a hidden hazard
Journal: Géotechnique
Volume 71, Issue 9, September 2021, pp. 781-794
external pagehttps://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/full/10.1680/jgeot.15.P.078call_made
Tinet Ruch: ETH Medal for Master Thesis, ETH Zurich / Recipient of the 3rd Heinrich Hatt-Bucher Prize
Yannick Jäggi: ETH Medal for Master Thesis, ETH Zurich / Recipient of the 2nd Heinrich Hatt-Bucher Prize
Mengyuan Zeng: Top three postgraduate students, Tongji University/ Recipient of the 9th Pursuit of Excellence Award
2021
David Hodel: SGEB-Prize for Master Thesis, ETH Zurich.
Urias Morf: Silver Medal for Master Thesis, ETH Zurich.
2020
Julien Alberto Louis Gallacchi: Culmann-Prize for Master Thesis, ETH Zurich.
Andreas Stöcklin: ETH Medal for PhD Thesis, ETH Zurich.
2019
Alexander Puzrin: ALERT Research Medal
Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Education Research and Technology.
Michelle Lea Stucker: Silver Medal for Master Thesis, ETH Zurich.
Jan Elias Attinger: Culmann-Prize for Master Thesis, ETH Zurich.
2018
ICE Publishing Award: David Hislop Award.
A.M. Puzrin, T.E. Gray, A.J. Hill.
Paper: Retrogressive shear band propagation and spreading failure criteria for submarine landslides
Journal: Géotechnique
Volume 67 Issue 2, February, 2017, pp. 95-105
external pagehttps://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/full/10.1680/jgeot.15.P.078call_made
2017
Marc Kohler: SGEB-Prize for Master Thesis, ETH Zurich.
2016
Alexander Puzrin: Fellow (by presidential invitation), Institution of Civil Engineers, UK
Christian Buss: Culmann-Prize for Master Thesis, ETH Zurich.
Simon Hug: Culmann-Prize for Master Thesis, ETH Zurich.
2015
Markus Schwager: Culmann-Prize for PhD Thesis, ETH Zurich.
2014
Alexander Puzrin: Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK.
Andreas Stöcklin: ETH Medal for Master Thesis, ETH Zurich.
2013
Alexander Puzrin and Andreas Schmid: George Stephenson Medal, Institution of Civil Engineers, UK.
Alexander Puzrin (together with John Burland and Jamie Standing): Geotechnical Research Medal, Institution of Civil Engineers, UK.
Alexander Puzrin: Golden Owl (awards given by ETH students to those lecturers who had proved especially outstanding in their commitment during courses organised by their departments).
2012
Balz Friedli: Hatt-Bucher-Prize, Hatt-Bucher-Foundation, Zurich.
Alexander Puzrin: Honorary Editor and Chairman of the Géotechnique Advisory Panel, UK Institution of Civil Engineers, United Kingdom.
2011
Michael Iten: Venture Leaders, Swissnex Boston.
Philipp Oberender: ETH Medal for Master Thesis, ETH Zurich.
Alexander Puzrin: Gledden Visiting Senior Fellowship, University of Western Australia, Australia.
2010
Frank Fischli: Culmann-Prize for Master Thesis, ETH Zurich.
Michelle Hagmann: Culmann-Prize for Master Thesis, ETH Zurich.
Michael Iten, Andreas Schmid, Dominik Hauswirth, Linard Cantieni and Erich Saurer: Venture 2010: Top 10 best business ideas, Venture 2010 (ETH, KTI, McKinsey & Company).
Michael Iten, Andreas Schmid, Dominik Hauswirth, Linard Cantieni and Alexander Puzrin: Venture 2010: Top 5 best business plan, Venture 2010 (ETH, KTI, McKinsey & Company).
Michael Iten, Andreas Schmid, Dominik Hauswirth and Alexander Puzrin: Venture Kick, Phase 1 and 2, Venture Kick Foundation.
Pascal Minder: Nachwuchspreis DTTG (Deutsche Ton- und Tonmineralgruppe).
2009
Florian Dieterle: Culmann-Prize for Master Thesis, ETH Zurich.
Michael Iten: Young Researchers Award, The Japanese Geotechnical Society, Kyoto.
Pascal Minder: ETH Medal for Master Thesis, ETH Zurich.
Pascal Minder: Willi-Studer Preis, ETH Zurich.
Alexander Puzrin: Golden Owl (awards given by ETH students to those lecturers who had proved especially outstanding in their commitment during courses organised by their departments).
2008
Dominik Hauswirth: Willi-Studer Preis, ETH Zurich.
Dominik Hauswirth: ETH Medal for Master Thesis, ETH Zurich.
Carlo Rabaiotti: Second best paper and presentation, 19th European Young Geotechnical Engineers' Conference, Györ (Hungary).
Markus Rüttimann: Culmann-Prize for Master Thesis, ETH Zurich.
Markus Schwager: Hatt-Bucher-Preis, Hatt-Bucher-Foundation, Zurich.
2007
Alexander Puzrin: MTS Distinguished Visiting Professorship 2007, University of Minnesota, USA.
Jacqueline Tront: Outstanding Poster and presentation award, Latsis Symposium 2007: Research Frontiers in Environment and Stustainability, ETH Zurich.
2006
Erich Saurer: Culmann-Prize for Diploma Thesis, ETH Zurich.
Andreas Schmid: Culmann-Prize for Diploma Thesis, ETH Zurich.
2004
Alexander Puzrin: Geotechnical Research Medal, Institution of Civil Engineers, UK.