Awards
November 2023 / 2023 DEIS Graduate Student Fellowship goes to Fabian Bill
Every year, the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society offers fellowships to eligible graduate students who are pursuing areas of work of interest to the society. We congratulate Fabian Bill, PhD student at the High Voltage Lab, on the Graduate Fellowship Award DEIS 2023!
November 2023 / Kar-Weck Price goes to Enrico Graneris
His bachelor thesis with the topic "Puffer Circuit Breaker Experiment with SF6 Alternatives", was awarded by the FGH and its member companies with €1,000 for his scientific commitment !
October 2023 / Doc. Mobility Fellowship Programme
We proudly confirm, that the application of our PhD Student Hanut Vemulapalli for the Doc. Mobility Fellowship Programme has been approved. We wish him all the best for this interesting scientific challenge at NTNU/Norway!
March 2023 / Prof. Christian Franck appointed new Full Member of SATW
The Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) has elected Prof. Christian Franck, head of the High Voltage Lab at D-ITET, as Full Member. The appointment is made in recognition of his outstanding achievements in teaching and research, particularly regarding the use of new climate-friendly insulating gases in electrical energy technology.
October 2020 / ETH Medal for Doctoral Thesis
We congratulate our PhD Raphael Färber for receiving the price for his doctoral thesis on the topic "Endurance of Polymeric Insulation under Mixed-Frequency Medium-Voltage Stress"!
September 2019 / ISH Young Scientist Award
PhD Student Eda Egüz and PhD Student Raphael Färber have been awarded each for their contribution to the ISH 2019 Conference in Budapest/Hungary with the Young Scientist Award 2019.
July 2019 / Prize for Outstanding Master Thesis goes to David Graber
We are happy to announce, that Master Student David Graber has been awarded with the ETH Medal for his outstanding Master Thesis, carried out at our High Voltage Laboratory.
July 2019 / Willi Studer Prize goes to Johanna Vorwerk
We are pleased to announce that Master Student Johanna Vorwerk has been awarded the Willi Studer Prize for her Master Thesis, carried out at our Laboratory (HVL).
July 2018 / ETG Literaturpreis goes to PhD Malte Tschentscher
Congratulations to our former PhD Student Malte Tschentscher. He was awarded with the external page ETG Literaturpreis for his publication on "Conduction Process in Gas-Insulated HVD Equipment: From Saturated Ion Currents to Micro Discharges"
Sep 2017 / Young Researcher Award of the 20th Internat. Symposium on High Voltage Engineering (ISH)
Congratulations to our PhD Student Alise Chachereau,who has been awarded the Young Researcher Award in recognition of her work on "Characterization of HFO1234ze mixtures with N2 and CO2 for use as gaseous electrical insulation media".
Oct 2016 / Best Student Paper Award of ICHVE 10 goes to PhD Student Andreas Ritter
Congratulations to our PhD Student Andreas Ritter, who was awarded with the Best Student Papier Award of ICHVE for his contribution "Five Years of Pulsed Current Testing for HVDC Switchgear"
Sep 2016 / Technical Committee Award of Cigré goes to Prof. Christian M. Franck
Congratulations to Prof. Christian M. Franck, who was awarded with the Technical Committee Award of Cigré in recognition of his outstanding contribution to work of Study Committee A3 - High Voltage Equipment
June 2016 / Prof. em. Klaus Fröhlich appointed as Guest Professor at the Tsinghua University, PR China
Congratulations to Prof. em. Klaus Fröhlich, who was appointed as Guest Professor of the State Key Laboratory of Control and Simulation of Power System and Generation Equipment, Tsingua University, PR China
Dec 2015 / DEIS Graduate Fellowship 2015 goes to PhD Student Raphael Färber
Congratulations to our PhD Student Raphael Färber, who was awarded with the Graduate Fellowship by the IEEE Dielectric and Electrical Society
Nov 2015 / Golden Owl Award goes to Prof. Christian M. Franck
Congratulations to Prof. Christian M. Franck, who was awarded by the Students Organisation VSETH with the Golden Owl Award for Exceptional Teaching and Motivation of Students
Sep 2015 / IEEE PES Student Prize Award in Honor of T. Burke Hayes
Congratulations to Master Student Julian Thomas, who was awarded for his master thesis with the following topic "Small Scale Testing of HVDC circuit breakers"
Sep 2015 / Young Researcher Award of the 19th Internat. Symposium on High Voltage Engineering (ISH)
Congratulations to our PhD Student Pascal Häfliger,who has been confered the Young Researcher Award in recognition of this work on "Assessing new SF6 replacement gases through pulsed townsend experiments".
July 2015 / RWTH Springorum Price goes to Tim Schultz
Congratulations to our PhD StudentTim Schultz. He has been awarded with the "RWTH Springorum Award" for his master thesis (at ETH Zurich) with the topic "Verification an Application of Corona Models for Numerical Ion Flow Investigations in Hybrid HVAC / HVDC Fields".
July 2014 / Ernst Bickle Studenpreis goes to PhD Student Andreas Ritter
Congratulations to our PhD Student Andreas Ritter, who was awarded with the Ernst Bickle Studienpreis for this Master Thesis "Disconnector and Earthing Switch Operation in HVDC GIS"
Sep 2013 / Young Researcher Award of the 18th Internat. Symposium on High Voltage Engineering (ISH)
Congratulations to our PhD Student Mohamed Rabie,who has been confered the Young Researcher Award in recognition of this work on "Predicting the Electric Strength of Proposed SF6 Replacement Gases by Means of Density Functional Theory.
Aug 2013 / DEIS Graduate Fellowship goes to PhD Student Myriam Koch
Congratulations to our PhD Student Myriam Koch, who was confered with the 2013 DEIS Graduate Fellowship by IEEE
July 2013 / John Neal Award 2013 goes to PhD Student Sedat Adili
Congratulations to our PhD Student Sedat Adili, who was awarded with the John Neal Award 2013 for his publication "Theory and Application on Pulsed X-ray Induced Partial Discharge Measurements for HV Equipment"
June 2013 / Posterpreis Fachverband Plasmaphysik goes to PhD Student Dominik Dahl
Congratulations to our PhD Student Dominik Dahl, who was awarded with the Posterpreis des Fachverbandes Plasmaphysik for his publication *Attachment cross sections of C4 F80 estimated from swarm measurements in Ar, N2 or CO2"
Nov 2011 / ETG Innovationspreis goes to PhD Ueli Straumann
Congratulations to our PhD Ueli Straumann, who was awarded with the ETG Innovationspreis for his doctoral thesis and research work on "Flüsterseile - CONOR: Corona Noise Reduction"