FLTR: Monika Ritsch-Marte, Petra Rudolf and Ilaria zardo - images: Gina Gunaratnam/EPS

Author: Gina Gunaratnam

The award ceremony of the joint meeting of the Swiss Physical Society (SPS) and the Austrian Physical Society (ÖPG) took place in early September at the University of Basel. Started with several awards of the SPS, the event continued with the prizes attributed by the ÖPG and with the distinction of the European Physical Society (EPS) dedicated to female physicists.

Prof. Petra Rudolf, chair of the EPS Equal Opportunities Committee and former president of the Society, handed over the EPS Emmy Noether Distinction 2022 to Prof. Monika Ritsch-Marte (full career) and to Prof. Ilaria Zardo (mid-career).

Monika Ritsch-Marte, from the Institute of Biomedical Physics, Dept. of Physiology & Medical Physics, the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria, was awarded " for exceptional contributions to optical microscopy and manipulation methods and for the promotion of women’s careers in physics. "

Ilaria Zardo, researcher at the Department of physics of the University of Basel, Switzerland, was awarded "for her contributions in the methodology of characterizing nanoscale materials and the consequent discovery of their new functional properties. "

The ceremony was followed by an interview of both EPS laureates by Prof. Rudolf and a group photo with laureates of all the presented prizes in the beautiful botanical garden of the Swiss university.

More info

• EPS Emmy Noether Distinction
• SPS-ÖPG meeting 2023
• A complete report of the meeting will follow in the next issue of SPS Communications
  

Petra Rudolf presenting the EPS Emmy Noether Distinction to the SPS-ÖPG audience at the University of Basel

Group photo with all laureates of SPS, ÖPG and EPS prizes in the university's botanical garden