Honors and Awards
International Fellow of the Chinese Optical Society (COS) 2024
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Marcel Benoist Prize 2022: The "Swiss Nobel Prize"
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NZZ Interview
"Ich bin sicher die einzige Preisträgerin mit einer Ermahnung der ETH" Download Download (PDF, 143 KB)
"I am certainly the only award winner with a warning from ETH" Download Download 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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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)
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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 page https://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" (Download download (PDF, 97 KB))
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external page Frew Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2015)
external page OSA 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: Download English (PDF, 364 KB), Download German (PDF, 357 KB)
Download IEEE Fellow (2014) (PDF, 4.1 MB)
Download Arthur L. Schawlow Award 2013 (PDF, 3.7 MB)
Laser Institute of America (LIA), LIA's highest achievement award
external page ERC advanced grant 2012
"Clocking fundamental attosecond electron dynamics" (ATTOCLOCK), ERC-2012-ADG, PE5
external page EPS Prize for Applied Aspects of Quantum Electronics and Optics
external page Joseph Fraunhofer/Robert M. Burley Prize of OSA (2008)
Download Ehrenmedaille der Leibniz Universität Hannover (2007) (PDF, 1.7 MB)
in Anerkennung ihrer Verdienste als Mitglied des Hochschulrates
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Fellow of the Optical Society of America
Elected foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Download Member 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)
Philip Morris Forschungspreis 2005
external page Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize 2004
LEOS Distinguished Lecturer Award for modelocked solid-state lasers (2000)
In 2000 third top cited researcher during the last decade in the field of external page optoelectronics, Download download (PDF, 4.2 MB)
external page Carl Zeiss Research Award (1998)
IBM Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (1987-88)
Fulbright Fellowship (1985-86)