Honors and Awards

Marcel Benoist Prize 2022: The "Swiss Nobel Prize"

NZZ Interview
"Ich bin sicher die einzige Preisträgerin mit einer Ermahnung der ETH" DownloadDownload (PDF, 143 KB)
"I am certainly the only award winner with a warning from ETH" DownloadDownload English translation (PDF, 271 KB)

2022 Annual Report – Swiss Science Award Marcel Benoist
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International member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (2021)

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OSA Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize (2020)
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SPIE Gold Medal (2020)
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Honorary Doctor of Science from Heriot-Watt University, Scotland (2019)
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IEEE Edison Medal (2019)
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European Inventor Award in Lifetime Achievement (2018):
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ERC advanced grant (2018):
"Mid-infrared optical dual-comb generation and spectroscopy with one unstabilized semiconductor laser" (ONE-MIX)
Link to news item D-PHYS:
https://www.phys.ethz.ch/news-and-events/d-phys-news/2018/04/erc-advanced-grant-for-ursula-keller.html

IEEE Photonics Award (2018):
"For seminal contributions to ultrafast laser technology enabling important industrial applications and novel scientific breakthroughs."
external pagehttps://www.ieee.org/about/awards/bios/photonics_recipients.html

Weizmann Women and Science Award (2017):
external page"For pioneering and seminal contributions to ultrafast lasers technology and important breakthroughs in attosecond science" (Downloaddownload (PDF, 97 KB))
DownloadAward Ceremony (PDF, 2 MB)
DownloadPhysics Symposium (PDF, 348 KB)

external pageFrew Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2015)

external pageOSA Charles H. Townes Award 2015:
"For seminal contributions in the fields of octave-spanning lasers, frequency comb technology, and high repetition-rate ultrafast semiconductor disc lasers"
ETH Life News 20. May 2015: DownloadEnglish (PDF, 364 KB), DownloadGerman (PDF, 357 KB)

DownloadIEEE Fellow (2014) (PDF, 4.1 MB)

DownloadArthur L. Schawlow Award 2013 (PDF, 3.7 MB)
Laser Institute of America (LIA), LIA's highest achievement award

external pageERC advanced grant 2012
"Clocking fundamental attosecond electron dynamics" (ATTOCLOCK), ERC-2012-ADG, PE5

external pageEPS Prize for Applied Aspects of Quantum Electronics and Optics

external pageJoseph Fraunhofer/Robert M. Burley Prize of OSA (2008)

DownloadEhrenmedaille der Leibniz Universität Hannover (2007) (PDF, 1.7 MB)
in Anerkennung ihrer Verdienste als Mitglied des Hochschulrates

DownloadEPS Fellow (2012) (PDF, 804 KB)

Fellow of the Optical Society of America

Elected foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

DownloadMember of the German Academy Leopoldina (2008) (PDF, 1.3 MB)

Member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences (SATW)

Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)