Awards for excellent doctoral theses
This year, six doctoral students from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering are honoured for their outstanding achievements: four of them receive ETH medals, two the Culmann Prize. Big congrats!
ETH Medals
Every year, outstanding doctoral theses are honored with the Silver Medal of ETH Zurich and a financial award.
Livia Cabernard, thesis title: Creating Transparency in Global Value Chains and Their Environmental Impacts to Support Sustainability Policies (Supervisor: Prof. Stefanie Hellweg)
Livia is a postdoc at D-BAUG and will shortly assume an assistant professorship at the Technical University of Munich, where she will head the Chair of Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agricultural Systems.
Zan Gojcic, thesis title: Benefiting from local rigidity in 3D point cloud processing (Supervisor: Prof. Andreas Wieser)
Zan is now a senior research scientist at Nvidia, working on 3D computer vision for capturing objects and environments.
Tsokanas Nikolaos, thesis title: Real-Time and Stochastic Hybrid Simulation (Supervisor: Prof. Bozidar Stojadinovic)
Tsokanas currently works as a control engineer at ABB. From September, he will be working as a catastrophe researcher for Zurich Insurance.
Barbara Ward, thesis title: Settling and Dewatering of Fecal Sludge: Building Fundamental Knowledge for Improved Global Sanitation (Supervisor: Prof. Eberhard Morgenroth)
Barbara currently works as a Water/Wastewater Designer at HDR Engineering in Virginia Beach, USA.
Culmann Prizes
The Culmann Prize, which is named after the German-Swiss civil engineer Carl Culmann (1821-81), recognizes outstanding doctoral theses and includes a financial award.
Dominik Gräff, thesis title: Small-Scale Processes at the Glacier Bed: Stick-slip, Crack Waves and Sliding from Surface and Borehole Observations (Supervisor: Prof. Fabian Walter)
Dominik now is a postdoc at the University of Washington, where he works with fiber-optic sensing to study dynamic processes in the Earth’s cryosphere.
Nico Lang, thesis title: Mapping Vegetation Height - Probabilistic Deep Learning for Global Remote Sensing (Supervisor: Prof. Konrad Schindler)
Nico is currently a postdoc at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, and is affiliated with the Pioneer Centre for AI.
Further information on the ETH Medal