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GRANTS

ERC Synergy Grants

  • Andras Kis
  • Edoardo Charbon
  • Tobias Kippenberg

Sandoz Family Foundation grant

  • Nako Nakatsuka

Melexis grants

  • Hatice Altug
  • Adrian Ionescu

AWARDS

European Control Award

  • Maryam Kamgarpour

IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award

  • Josie Hughes

IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award

  • Dimitri Van De Ville

Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics Award

  • Reymond Clavel

FEDEPE (Spanish Federation of Female Directors, Executives, Professionals and Entrepreneurs) International Award

  • Anna Fontcuberta i Morral

IEEE Sensors Letters Best Paper Award

  • Sandro Carrara

MassRobotics Rising Star Award

  • Josie Hughes

Test-of-Time Award by the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS)

  • David Atienza
  • Giovanni De Micheli

Latsis University prize for EPFL

  • Giulia Tagliabue

E. Bright Wilson Prize

  • Michele Ceriotti

RECOGNITIONS

Group of Ten High-level Representatives of Civil Society, Private Sector and Scientific Community to Promote Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (10-Member Group)

  • Karen Scrivener

Elected full members of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences

  • Jürgen Brugger
  • Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
  • Francesco Stellacci

Appointed as the President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)

  • Aude Billard

Honorary doctorate from TU/e

  • Karen Scrivener

Doctor Honoris Causa in Bucharest

  • Adrian Ionescu

ACM CSUR Editor-in-Chief

  • David Atienza

Technical Engineering and Engineering Degrees of Catalonia (METGEC)’s Prize for Women in Engineering

  • Anna Fontcuberta i Morral

Cell Press’s 50 Scientists that Inspire

  • Sophia Haussener

Highly Cited Researchers in 2024

  • Christophe Ballif
  • Tobias Kippenberg
  • Andras Kis

Doctor Honoris Causa – University of Ljubljana

  • Christophe Ballif

STUDENTS AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

Prizmatix Young Investigator Award

  • Deepthy Kavungal – Bionanophotonic Systems Laboratory (BIOS)

EDBB Best Doctoral Thesis Awards

EDMI Thesis Award

  • Guilherme Migliato Marega – Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES)
  • James Bourely – Soft Transducers Laboratory (LMTS)

EEDE Thesis Award

STI Teaching Assistant Awards

European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) 2024 Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award

  • Stefan Vlaski – Adaptive Systems Laboratory

Amelia Earhart Fellowship

  • Nana Obayashi – Computational Robot Design and Fabrication Lab (CREATE)

ICTAM (International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics)’s Best Paper Presentation

  • Xinyue Wei – Laboratory of Engineering Mechanics of Soft Interfaces

EPFL Doctorate Award

  • Samuel Mendes Leitão – Laboratory for Bio- and Nano- Instrumentation

Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. (ABB) Award 2024

  • Stanislav Sergeev – Laboratory of Wave Engineering

Gilbert Hausmann Award 2024

  • Guilherme Migliato – Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES)