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FAN Awards 2025: Outstanding scientific achievements

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, and medicine and natural sciences.

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

Awardees of previous years

FAN («Fonds zur Förderung des akademischen Nachwuchses of UZH Alumni»)

 

Awardees 2025

Moritz F. Adam

Moritz F. Adam

Habilitation candidate at the Chair for Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism
Faculty of Theology and the Study of Religion
Supervisor: Konrad Schmid

FAN Award in the field of humanities and social sciences for his research project:
«Conceptions of Time and Apocalyptic Thinking in Hellenistic Judaism»

LinkedIn Profile Moritz F. Adam
                                                                             

Stefania Ionescu

Stefania Ionescu

Postdoc in the Research group: Social Computing
Department of Informatics
Supervisor: Anikó Hannák

FAN Award in the field of law and economics for her research project:
«Society as a Stakeholder: Understanding the Societal Impact of Systems Allocating Visibility Algorithmically»

LinkedIn Profil Stefania Ionescu

                                              

Dominik Groos

Dominik Gross

Postdoc at the Brain Research Institute 
Faculty of Medicine
Supervisor: Fritjof Helmchen

FAN Award in the field of medicine and natural sciences for his research project:
«Old circuits, new function: How phylogenetically conserved brain regions govern risky decisions»

LinkedIn Profil Dominik Gross

 

                                              

Nominations

For this year's awards, the following early career researchers have been nominated by their respective faculties (in alphabetic order):

Anaïs Aeschlimann (PhF), Cengiz Akandil (MNF), Gianluca De Nard (WWF),
Daniela Mahl (PhF), Marko Pesut (MNF), Alexander Vetterli (RWF), Giulia Walter (RWF)


Fotos: Seraina Boner Photography

Weiterführende Informationen

Picture gallery – Honoring the FAN Awardees at the event Sparkling Research

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FAN Awardees previous years

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