MaP Award 2026

Every year, the MaP Doctoral School awards a prize for the most promising doctoral thesis of ETH Zurich in the field of Materials and Processes. The nomination window for the MaP Award 2026 has closed on 23 January 2026.

MaP Award 2026: Nominations complete

The competition is open to graduates who received a doctoral degree from ETH Zurich between 1 January 2025 and 1 January 2026 (date of oral examination). All professors that are members of MaP were invited to nominate their MaP Award candidate (max. one candidate per research group). A jury of experts from academia and industry will now evaluate the entries and select the nominees for the shortlist.

Come back to this page in April to learn about the candidates selected for the MaP Award Final on 18 June 2026.

More info about the MaP Award

Five men on stage, four of them holding a puzzle ball and a certificate. — All shortlisted candidates present their research at the MaP Graduate Symposium and receive a MaP Award puzzle ball from the hands of MaP Doctoral School director Prof. Lucio Isa. In 2025, Dr. Hyun Suk Wang (2nd from the left) was selected as the winner. (Michele McCoig Photography)

MaP Award Overview

General information / selection criteria
Current MaP Award
MaP Award 2025
MaP Award 2024
MaP Award 2023
MaP Award 2022
MaP Award 2014-2021

Questions & Support

to the MaP Doctoral School team.