Awards & Honors
The awards that researchers at the University of Basel receive for their scientific work, as well as their appointments to numerous institutions, are testimony to their outstanding commitment to science and society.
The awards that researchers at the University of Basel receive for their scientific work, as well as their appointments to numerous institutions, are testimony to their outstanding commitment to science and society.
Professor Thomas Ward, from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Basel, has been awarded the 2027 Arthur C. Cope Distinguished Scholar Award of the American Chemical Society.
Oliver Spiess, a doctoral candidate in the Department of German Language and Literature, has been awarded the 2025 Jacob L. Mey and Hartmut Haberland Early Career Award.
Neuroscientist and psychiatrist Professor Andreas Papassotiropoulos from the Department of Biomedicine and the University Psychiatric Clinics Basel has been elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. The election recognizes his research into the genetic and molecular foundations of learning, forgetting and memory.
The prestigious European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has elected Professor Sebastian Hiller from the Biozentrum, University of Basel, as a new member. With this lifelong membership, EMBO recognizes outstanding research achievements and commitment to scientific excellence.
Professor Mirjam Christ-Crain, endocrinologist and clinical researcher at the University of Basel, has been awarded the Medical Research Prize of the Professor Dr. Max Cloëtta Foundation. She shares the award with Martin Jinek, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Zurich.
Botond Roska, professor at the University of Basel and director at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), has been elected as a new member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Florina Ciorba, Professor of High Performance Computing at the University of Basel, has been named one of the first honorees of the new SCW75 program by Scientific Computing World. The distinction recognises 75 individuals worldwide who are shaping the future of scientific computing.
Professor Sebastian Hiller, structural biologist at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, has been elected as a new member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Election to the academy is regarded as one of the highest scientific honors in Germany.
The project KaziPlay: Healthy Schools for Healthy Communities has been recognized as a UNESCO SDG 4 Good Practice and included in the UNESCO SDG 4 Knowledge Hub.
