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The two researchers, who are members of the Institute for Quantum Electronics, were both awarded SNSF Starting Grants.

ETH has once again been highly successful in the awarding of this year’s ERC Starting Grants for young researchers, with the European Research Council (ERC) approving a total of CHF 21.4 million in funding for 12 ETH project submissions, among them those of physicists Yiwen Chu and Judit Szulágyi.

As part of last week's Honors Ceremony of the IEEE in San Diego (US), ETH physics professor Ursula Keller received the Edison Medal, in recognition of her innovations that have pushed the frontiers in ultrafast science and technology.

Rachel Grange, professor at the Institute for Quantum Electronics, receives one of 54 Proof of Concept Grants that the European Research Council (ERC) has awarded in the latest funding round. The grant enables her and her group to further explore the commercial potential of a new approach to the characterization of materials.

The 2019 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics, one of the most highly endowed physics prizes in Germany, will be awarded to ETH physics professor Matthias Troyer. He is honoured for his contributions to the development of quantum Monte Carlo algorithms.

ETH researchers had excellent results in the issuing of ERC grants: they were awarded 10 Consolidator Grants in the amount of 24 million Swiss francs for their research. Among the grantees are the three physicists Paolo Crivelli, Christian Degen and Jonathan Home.