FAN Awards 2026: Outstanding scientific achievements
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Facts
| Objective | The FAN Awards honor early career researchers at UZH for outstanding scientific achievements. Three prizes are awarded in the fields of humanities and social sciences, law and economics, as well as medicine and natural sciences. |
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Call |
Call for applications annually: Professors nominate suitable candidates from their faculty. |
| Selection | The jury consists of three professorial members of UZH, representing the three scientific areas, as well a representative each from FAN (Fonds zur Förderung des akademischen Nachwuchses of UZH Alumni) and the Office Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI). |
| Award | FAN Award: CHF 5'000 per awardee |
| Further notes |
UZH Alumni - FAN («Fonds zur Förderung des akademischen Nachwuchses of UZH Alumni») |
Awardees 2026
Stefano Statunato
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Doctoral candidate at the Chair Mahlmann
Faculty of Law
Supervisor: Matthias MahlmannFAN Award in the field of law and economics for his dissertation project:
«Science, Truth, and Democracy - Elements of a Normative Theory of Academic Freedom»
Stephanie Santschi
Postdoc at the Chair of East Asian Art History
Department of Art History
Supervisor: Ewa Machotka
FAN Award in the field of humanities and social sciences for her research project:
«Drawing from the Crowd: A Citizen Science Platform for Mapping Ukiyo-e Cultural Geography»
University website
LinkedIn Profile
Zoe Marti
Doctoral candidate atCellerys AG
affiliated with theInstitute of Experimental Immunology
Supervisor: Roland Martin
FAN Award in the field of medicine and natural sciences for her dissertation project:
«Epstein-Barr Virus and HLA-DR15 Orchestrate Pathogenic B- and T Cell Responses in Multiple Sclerosis»
LinkedIn Profile
ResearchGate Profile
Nominations
For this year's awards, the following early career researchers have been nominated by their respective faculties (in alphabetic order):
Manuela Bizzozzero (MNF), Gillian Muchaamba (VSF), Katharina O.E. Müller (WWF), Valentina Petrović (PhF), Kilian Sprenkamp (WWF), Andrea Spiri (VSF), Dietmar Wohlbauer (MeF), Zhaoyu Yan (TRF)
Photos: Nicolas Zonvi
