Archive Awards 2020

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• 09.11.2020 Honorary Doctorate for Andrea Büchler

  Not Looking Away From Difficult Situations

  Diversity is the barometer of our freedom, says UZH legal scholar Andrea Büchler. She was granted an honorary doctorate in September by the University of Vienna for her outstanding and courageous academic contributions.

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• 21.09.2020 Biology

  Prestigious award for pioneer of proteomics

  Ruedi Aebersold, a professor of molecular systems biology at UZH and ETH Zurich, is to receive the Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist. Aebersold is being honored for the part he has played in founding and advancing the field of proteomics, a branch of biology that is seen as the foundation of the personalized medicine of tomorrow.

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• 07.09.2020 Georg Friedrich Götz Award

  Georg Friedrich Götz Award

  Cancer researcher and physician Steffen Böttcher from the Medical Oncology and Hematology Clinic, and neuroscientist Silvia Brem from the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich, have been presented with the Georg Friedrich Götz Award. The prize is awarded annually for outstanding contributions in the field of medical research.

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• 13.08.2020 UZH-Spin-off

  Precision Predictions for Hydropower Plants

  The UZH spin-off ExoLabs has developed a model that can predict snowmelt and help hydropower operators generate energy more efficiently. The innovative business idea has now won the funding and support of the European Union.

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• 10.03.2020 Mercator Awards

  Citizen Science, Humanitarian Aid in Uganda, Customs and Norms

  Their innovative and original research projects won over the jury: This year’s Mercator Awards go to Simon Etter and Barbara Strobl at the Department of Geography, the ethnologist Maria-Theres Schuler, and lawyer Oliver William.

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