Prix Latsis Universitaires ETH Zurich

Outstanding accomplishments in the field of neuro-engineering, especially for connecting artificial limbs to the sensory nervous system, enabling restoration of natural sensations of touch and proprioception and thus improving limb function.

Outstanding accomplishments in the field of theoretical physics, for her systematic considerations of possible generalisations of General Relativity by including vector and tensor fields into the geometry.

Pioneering work in the field of genome engineering, particularly by developing new methods to record genome expressions in living cells.

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations: a computational microscope to study biological processes at the atomic level

Pioneering work in the field of bacterial infections, particularly on controlling bacterial kinetics in the intestine.

Pioneering experiments on controlling quantum systems consisting of single trapped ions to explore the transition between classical and quantum dynamics.

Contributions to performance modelling, simulation, and optimization of large-scale parallel applications; topologies, routing, and host interfaces of large-scale networks; and advanced parallel programming techniques and runtime environments.

Contributions to approximation theory, numerical analysis, differential geometry, computational geometry and multi-scale methods.

(Mathematical biology) "Contributions to phylogenetic reconstruction methods for inference based on maximum likelihood approaches".

Accomplishments in the fields of computer graphics and geometric modeling in particular for contributions to the development of novel methods and algorithms for efficient digital processing of complex 3-dimensional geometry and surfaces.

Development of the highly sensitive SRM method.

Light-matter interactions.

Significant contributions to the phenomenology of particle physics and perturbative quantum field theory.

Investigations of the vitamins B6 biosynthesis pathway. In particular for unraveling a novel pathway in archea, fungi and plants and the role of vitamin B6 in plant developmental processes and stress response.

Contributions in the fields of immunology and infectious diseases in particular for unraveling the in vivo role of a central molecule in T cell differentiation and ensuing immune responses to pathogens and allergens.

Contributions to mineral physics in particular for research on crystal structure prediction and for the discovery of several major Earth-forming minerals.

Solving the crystal structures of the 50S robosomal subunit and ribosomal cofactors required for protein synthesis, targeted protein degradation and cotranslational protein folding.

Peptide alkaloid anachelin.

Phase transition mechanisms and physico-chemical properties in atmospheric aerosol particles of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere.

High-temperature superconductors.

Studies on strongly fluctuating superconductors.

Molecular Quantum Dynamics and Spectroscopy.

Geosciences: Statistical studies of physical and structural properties of the crust and simulations of ground-penetrating radar and seismic wave propagation.

Nanotechnologies: Image-formation and contrast mechanisms in scanning near-field microscopy and of light-interaction with photonic band-gap nanostructures.

Unconventional (d-wave) superconductors, "quasi one dimensional" cuprates, kondo spin lattice systems and high temperature superconductivity.

Light: an Ideal Probe to Understand Condensed Matter.

Structure and dynamics of hydrogen bonds: HF vapor.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Blood Flow Velocities and Angiography of the Coronary Arteries.

Structure determination by dynamics and static light scattering.

La détermination de la structure d'un complexe homéodomain-ADN des antennapedia en solution au moyen de la spectroscopie à résonance nucléaire.

La détermination de la structure d'un complexe homéodomain-ADN des antennapedia en solution au moyen de la spectroscopie à résonance nucléaire.

Géophysique : Tomographie sismique.

La biologie moléculaire d'importantes protéines des membranes cellulaires.

Wave propagation in solids.

Surface physics.

Microbiology, biochemistery and enzymology of lignin biodegradation.

Quasiperiodic crystals studied by electron microscopy.

Nuclear magnetic resonance pulse spectroscopy.