Archive Awards 2024

Article list Awards

• 29.04.2024 Teaching award

  Flying High with Carl

  Marc Thommen was presented with the UZH teaching award at this year’s Dies academicus. With his interactive approach to teaching, the criminal law expert succeeds in creating a conducive learning environment that gets students to ask questions, engage in discussion and challenge ideas – even in large lectures.

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• 25.04.2024 Prix Schläfli (SCNAT)

  Giving Turtles a Voice

  For a long time, turtles were regarded as largely voiceless creatures. In his dissertation, Gabriel Jorgewich-Cohen has shown that they definitely do communicate acoustically. The postdoctoral researcher at the UZH Department of Paleontology has been awarded the Prix Schläfli in Biology.

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• 15.02.2024 FAN Award

  Heart Defects, the World of Work, and Algorithms

  Melanie Ehrler, Simon Walo and Regina Weder are being honored with this year’s FAN Awards in recognition of their outstanding research work. Their three topics of research are the development of children with heart defects, the future of work, and the legal conditions for the use of AI in public administration.

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• 01.02.2024 Virology

  Alexandra Trkola Awarded US$3 Million Grant

  The renowned virologist from the University of Zurich receives the major award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for vaccine studies in well-studied groups of people living with HIV in Switzerland and South Africa.

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