Distinctions and Awards
A selection of distinctions and awards of D-GESS members:
Palmes académiques for Jean-Philippe Coen
Jean-Philippe Coen was awarded the title Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques for his excellent work in an academic context.
Jean-Philippe Coen accompanied the professorship for French literature and culture at the ETH for several years with great attention and dedication. The quality of his work in accompanying visiting professors over the years has shaped the chair significantly and contributed to the communication of French and Francophone culture in the university environment. We congratulate him on this well-deserved award!
The guest lecturers accompanied by Jean-Philippe Coen in the period 2009-2019 were Etienne Barilier, Marc Augé, Jacques Roubaud, François Jullien, Alain de Libera, Bernard Stiegler, Dany Laferrière, Nathalie Heinich, Alain Ehrenberg, Boubacar Boris Diop, Bernard Comment, Maurice Olender, Jérôme Prieur, Chantal Thomas, Olivier Barrot, Denis Bertrand, Pierre Assouline, Gérard Macé, Pascale Kramer.
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Dominik Hangartner receives Latsis Prize of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
The Political Scientist Dominik Hangartner was awarded one of the most prestigious science prizes in Switzerland. With the National Latsis Prize, the SNSF recognises the exceptional quality of Hangartner’s research on migration and its translation into policymaking. Read more here.
Thomas Bernauer receives the American Political Science Association’s Elinor Ostrom Career Achievement Award
On August 30th, 2019, Thomas Bernauer was given the Elinor Ostrom Career Achievement Award. This award is given in recognition of his lifetime contribution to the study of science, technology, and environmental politics. Read more about external pageSTEP Award
Elsbeth Stern receives the Franz-Emanuel-Weinert-Price from the German Psychological Society
The German Psychological Society (DGPs) acknowledges the research of Prof. Elsbeth Stern which is "excellent and relevant for the society". The DGPs emphasizes her competent interlocking of research and public relations and compliments her dedication to improve the educational system through scientific insights, which enables counteracting common prejudices.
Lars-Erik Cederman has won Switzerland’s biggest science award for 2018, the Marcel Benoist Prize
Peace and conflict researcher Lars-Erik Cederman is the first social scientist to win the Swiss external pageMarcel Benoist Science Prize since the economist Ernst Fehr did in 2008. He receives the award for his research on the causes and solution approaches for conflicts between ethnic minorities and central state governments. He has been able to demonstrate that regional autonomy for ethnic minorities and their involvement in political decisions are central to achieving lasting peace. Equally important is a balanced distribution of wealth and basic services. With his research group he has compiled a global data set on ethnic groups. The data collection covers their opportunities to share in government power in the period from 1946 to 2017. Inequalities between ethnic groups were measured using surveys of experts and satellite images, before being plotted on a digital map. The data collection is available to politicians, academics and members of the public (see: https://icr.ethz.ch/data/).
Prof. Dr. Dominik Hangartner has received an ERC Starting Grant of the European Research Council
Prof. Dr. Dominic Hangarter's ERC project will evaluate key parameters of the asylum process by combining advances in statistical methodology and large-scale registry data. The project will assess the impact of policies, including wait times, labor market access, welfare support and family reunification, on refugees' economic and social integration, on electoral politics, and on social cohesion in European host countries. The project aims to establish a comprehensive evidence base that can be used to design an asylum process that improves outcomes for refugees and host communities.
Prof. Thomas Bernauer Member of the Joint Science Conference
Prof. Thomas Bernauer, Professor for Political Sciences, has been elected as a member of the in the expertboard of the Excellence Strategy of Joint Science Conference.
ERC Advanced Grant for Prof. Lars-Erik Cederman
Prof. Lars-Erik Cederman, Professor of International Conflict Research, receives an ERC Advanced Grant. In his research he looks into a new theory of nationalist state transformation.
Doc.CH in the humanities and social sciences
The SNSF awards three D-GESS grants. Congratulations to Felix Karstens (Political Science), Theresa Leimpek (Political Science) und Carl Müller-Crepon (Political Science).
Caroline von Humboldt Award
Congratulation on Caroline von Humboldt Award for Margarete Pratschke, Chair for Science Studies at D-GESS.
Golden Owl 2016
Congratulation on Golden Owl 2016 for Prof. Tobias Schmidt, Energy Politics!
The Golden Owl honours lecturers who have provided exceptional teaching and motivates them to continue in this way.
Golden Owl 2016
Congratulation on Golden Owl 2016 for Prof. Tobias Schmidt, Energy Politics!
The Golden Owl honours lecturers who have provided exceptional teaching and motivates them to continue in this way.
Golden Owl 2015
Congratulation on Golden Owl 2015 for Dr. Nils Güttler, Chair for Science Studies D-GESS!
The Golden Owl honours lecturers who have provided exceptional teaching and motivates them to continue in this way.
Georg-Uschmann-Preis
Nils Güttler erhält von der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina den diesjährigen Georg-Uschmann-Preis für Wissenschaftsgeschichte für eine hervorragende wissenschaftshistorische Dissertation. Die Preisverleihung findet am 18. September 2015 statt.
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Golden Owl 2014
Prof. Dr. Andreas Wenger was awarded the Golden Owl for outstanding services in teaching at ETH Day on 22. November 2014.
The award was initiated by the VSETH and is designed to honour and at the same time motivate lecturers who show outstanding commitment to teaching and their students to maintain a high level of quality in their courses.
Tobias Wolbring
DGS Dissertation Award
The Dissertation Award of the German Society for Sociology (DGS) has been awarded to two outstanding dissertations that had been reviewed since 11. May 2012. Dr. Tobias Wolbring received the award for his work "Fallstricke der Lehrevaluation. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Messbarkeit von Lehrqualität".
The book was published by Campus Frankfurt am Main/New York.
Anatol-Rapoport-Award
In the context of the award ceremony of the 37th Congress of the German Society for Sociology (DGS) in Trier, Dr. Tobias Wolbring received the Anatol-Rapoport-Award for his article "Disorder, Social Capital, and Norm Violation: Three Field Experiments on the Broken Windows Thesis" (together with Dr. Marc Keuschnigg).
The article is published in Rationality and Society.
Michael Hagner
Martin Warnke-Medal
Michael Hagner is the fourth winner of the external pageMartin Warnke-Medal (German only). The Martin Warnke-Medal was funded by the Aby-Warburg-Foundation and the University of Hamburg and has been awarded every three years since 2005 für scientific achievements in Cultural Studies. The award ceremony takes place on 23. April 2014.
Daniel Chen
ERC Consolidator Grant
The European Research Committee has awarded the ERC Consolidator Grant for the first time. 312 Researchers in Europe receive around 700 Million Swiss Francs. 22 of these Consolidator Grants go to Switzerland; the ETH Zurich with four grants, including Daniel Chen from D-GESS, has received the highest number of distinctions among Swiss universities.
Dirk Helbing
Honorary Doctorate
Prof. Dirk Helbing, Professor for Sociology, in particular Modelling and Simulation, was awarded an honorary doctorate in the context of the external page172nd Dies Natalis of the Technical University Delft on 10. January 2014.
Marcus Matthias Keupp
Golden Owl 2013
On the ETH Day 2013, the best teachers were awarded. The Association of Students at ETH Zurich (VSETH) awarded a Golden Owl for particularly dedicated and outstanding teaching to one faculty member per department.The Golden Owl for D-GESS was awarded to Dr. Marcus Matthias Keupp (Teacher Military Academy at ETH Zurich).
Patrick Kupper
Turku Book Award for Wildnis schaffen „the best book in Environmental History published in 2011 or 2012
The Turku Book Award is a joint prize from the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC). The award is named after the city of Turku, Finland, where it was awarded for the first time at the 6th annual ESEH Conference in June 2011. external pagehttp://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/research/turku_book_award/index.html
Isabel Günther
Isabel Günther, Assistant Professor for Development Economics, was awarded the 2012 Best Practice Award from the Poverty Reduction, Equity and Growth Network (PEGNet) for outstanding cooperation between research and development policy. The prize of 3000 Euros was awarded for a research collaboration between ETH Zurich, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Free University Amsterdam and the German and Dutch development cooperation.
Isabel Günther
Isabel Günther, Assistant Professor for Development Economics, was awarded the 2012 Excellence Award from the Research Committee on Development Economics (AEL) of the German Economic Association (VfS) for an outstanding publication in a refereed journal in 2011. The award comes with prize money of 5.000 Euros. It was awarded to Isabel Günther together with Andrey Launov from the University of Mainz.
Tina Freyburg
We congratulate the CIS student Tina Freyburg, who is the winner of this year´s SIAF Award (Schweizerischen Instituts für Auslandforschung) for her dissertation on ‹Transnational Influences and Democratic Socialization in Authoritarian Contexts›.
Julian Wucherpfennig
The Jean Blondel PhD Prize 2012 was jointly awarded to Julian Wucherpfennig (CIS Zürich) for his PhD entitled “Fighting for Change: Onset, Duration, and Recurrence of Ethnic Conflict” and to Didier Caluwaerts (Vrije Universiteit Brussels) for his PhD “Confrontation and Communication: Experiments on Deliberative Democracy in Linguistically Divided Belgium”.
Hubert Annen
In the context of the 54th Annual Conference of the International Military Testing Association (IMTA), Dr. Hubert Annen, teacher for Military Psychology and Pedagogy at the Military Academy at ETH Zurich, received the external pageHarry H. Greer-Award 2012 for "long-standing exceptional work contributing to the purpose and aims of the International Military Testing Association".
Lutz Wingert
The Executive Board of ETH Zirch has elected Lutz Wingert, Professor for Philosophy, in particular practical Philosophy (with retroactive effect from 1. January 2012 to 31. December 2015), to be the Chair of the Ethics Committee.
Dirk Helbing
Professor for Sociology receives «Golden Idea Award 2012» funded by Idee-Suisse for the selfregulating traffic light. The award ceremony will take place on 1. October 2012 at 17:00 at the Semper Auditorium at ETH Zurich (Registration required). external pageMore ...
Dirk Helbing
Professor for Sociology, was elected a «external pageMember of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Complex Systems» and Member of the WEF Committee for Complex Systems in June 2012.
Stefan Bechtold
Professor for Intellectual Property was elected a member of the Scientific Committe of the German Ministry for Economy and Technology. The Committee, consisting of 36 economists and four jurists, advises the ministry in a issues regarding Economic Policy.
Brigitta Bernet
Post-doctoral student at the Professorship for the History of Technology receives the Leibniz-Summer-Fellowship 2012 at the external pageCenter for Contemporary Research in Potsdam, endowed with 3000 Euros per month.
Thomas Bernauer
Professor for International Relations receives the ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Committe for the project external pageSources of Legitimacy in Global Environmental Governance. The ERC Advanced Grants in the amount of 1,9 to 3 Mio. Franks are awarded to established top researchers and must be perceived as special distinctions.