Awards
Prof. Detlef Günther
2022
Ioannes Marcus Marchi Medal (Ioannes Marcus Marci Spectroscopic Society), Brno, Czech Republic
2015
Simon-Widmer Award of the Division Analytical Sciences of the Swiss Chemical Society
Emich-Plakette (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Massenspektroskopie)
SAS Fellowship (Society for Applied Spectroscopy )
2014
Mitgliedschaft in die Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina
2013
JSPS Fellowship - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo
2012
Thousand Talents Program, Wuhan – University, China
Einstein Visiting Fellow, Einstein-Fundation Berlin
Nicolaus Konkoly - Thege Medal, Societas Spectroscopica Slovaca
Fassel-Lecture, Iowa State University, USA*
2007
Lester W. Strock Award
Fresenius-Preis
2003
European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry
2002
Ruzicka-Preis
Research Group
2024
Runner up, Oral Presentation Award 2nd, SCS Fall-Meeting 2024
Tobias Schöberl, Mirjam Bachmann and Detlef Günther
Quantification of laser generated aerosols via microdroplet calibration using a downwards pointing ICP-TOFMS
2022
Download Certificate of Award (PDF, 324 KB)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellowships, Horizon 2020, European Commission. Grant Nr. 891710. ($ 203,149.44 EUR)
Wu, Chung-Che, July 2020 until June 2022
Oral Contribution Prize, EWLA 2022
P. Becker, J. Koch, D. Günther, Impact of Ablation Cell Design in LA-ICPMS on Elemental Fractionation, Bern, CH, 12.-15. July 2022
Runner up, Best Presentation Award, external page CHAnalysis 2022
P. Becker, J. Koch, D. Günther, Impact of Ablation Cell Design in LA-ICP-MS Quantification, Beatenberg, Bern, CH, 19.-20. May 2022.
2021
Runner up, Best Oral Presentation Award, SCS-Fall-Meeting 2021
Thomas Vonderach: Studies on a downward inductively coupled plasma time-of-flight mass spectrometer to analyze droplets carrying particles or cells.
Global Young Scientists Summit 2021, external page GYSS 2021
Kamyar Mehrabi selected to attend Global Young Scientists Summit 2021.
2020
METAS Prize 2020, external page METAS Prize
Kamyar Mehrabi: Young investigator award of Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology in 2020. METAS honors with this award a young and promising scientist working in Switzerland for an outstanding contribution to the field of metrology in chemistry and/or biology.
Best Poster Presentation Award, Analytical Sciences, external page SCS-Fall-Meeting 2020
Stefan Kradolfer, Heutschi, K., Koch, J., Günther, D., Listening with curiosity – Tracking the acoustic response of portable LA , Bern (Online), Switzerland, 2020, August 25, SCS-Fall-Meeting.
Runner up, Best Oral Presentation Award, external page SCS-Fall-Meeting 2020
Pascal Becker, Neff, C., Günther, D., Forensic float glass fragment analysis and matching by means of Single-Pulse LA-ICP-TOFMS, Bern (Online), Switzerland, 2020, August 25, SCS-Fall-Meeting.
2019
CRC Press poster prize Download EWCP (PDF, 309 KB)
Kamyar Mehrabi, Kägi R., Günther D., Gundlach-Graham A., Online Microdroplet Calibration for Size and Concentration Determination of Nanoparticle Mixtures by ICP-TOFMS, Pau, France, 3rd-8th February 2019, European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry 2019.
2018
Award of the Swiss Association for Spectrometry Award (SASP)
Gundlach-Graham, A., Sept. 9, 2018
Swiss NSF Ambizione Early Career Award, project no. PZ00P2_174061., Total award: CHF 582,995
Gundlach-Graham, A., Jan. 1, 2018
Travel Award, external page Swiss group of mass spectrometry
Lorenzo Querci, Detlef Günther, Bodo Hattendorf, Element analysis with thermalized laser ablation ions from solid samples, Florence, Italy, August 27-31, IMSC-Meeting
2017
Best Poster Presentation Award, Download SCS-Meeting (PDF, 1.9 MB)
Lyndsey Hendriks, Gundlach-Graham, A., Günther, D., Investigation of the linear range for nanoparticle analysis by ICPMS, Bern, Switzerland, August 21-22, SCS-Meeting.
Best student Oral Presentation Award, Download AMS14 Conference (PDF, 468 KB)
Laura Hendriks, Hajdas, I., Ferreira, E., Scherrer, N., Zumbühl, S., Küffner, M., Wacker, L., Synal, H.-A., Günther, D., A new approach to radiocarbon dating of paintings, Ottawa, Canada, August 14-18, AMS14 Conference.
2016
Award for the Best Oral Presentation, Runner-up, Analytical Sciences
Lyndsey Hendriks, Gundlach-Graham A., Günther D., Studies on discrete samples using a microdroplet generator combined with ICP-Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry, Zurich, Switzerland, 15th September, SCS Fall Meeting 2016
Authentication in Art Award 2016
Laura Hendriks, Irka Hajdas, Markus Küffner, Ester S.B. Ferreira, Microscale radiocarbon dating of paintings, The Hague, Netherlands, 12th May, Authentication in Art Congress 2016
Outstanding Poster Prize
Marcel Burger, Chung-Che Wu, Chuan-Chou Shen, Bodo Hattendorf and Detlef Günther, A High-Sensitivity Approach for Open-Cell LA-ICPMS of Trace Elements in Stalagmites, Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry 2016, Tucson/AZ, USA, 9.-16.1.2016.
2015
DAAS-Price for PhD-Thesis (Deutscher Arbeitskreis für Analytische Spektroskopie)
Olga Borovinskaya
A New Inductively Coupled Plasma Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer: Fundamentals and Applications.
ETH-Medal for an extraordinary PhD-Thesis
Olga Borovinskaya
A new inductively coupled plasma time-of-flight mass spectrometer: Fundamentals and Applications.
ETH-Medal for an extraordinary PhD-Thesis
Sabrina Gschwind
Development and evaluation of discrete sample introduction systems for nanoparticle analysis by ICP-MS.
2014
2014 SCNAT/SCS Chemistry Travel Award
Münsterer, C., Wacker, L., Hattendorf, B., Christl, M., Koch, J., Dietiker, R., Synal, H.-A, Günther, D., Rapid Radiocarbon Analyses by Laser Ablation, Aix-en-Provence, France, 25.-29.08.2014, AMS-13.
ETH-Medal for an extraordinary PhD-Thesis
Hao Wang
High spatial resolution quantitative chemical imaging.
2013
The SCS-Metrohm Prizes for Best Oral Presentation in Analytical Chemistry Division (Runners' up)
Münsterer, C.,Wacker, L., Hattendorf, B., Christl, M., Koch, J., Dietiker, J., Synal, H.-A., Günther, D., 14C analysis of carbonates at high spatial resolution by the coupling of Laser Ablation with AMS, Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society 2013, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 2013
Swiss Aerosol Award 2013
Borovinskaya, O., Swiss Lung Foundation, 2013, Switzerland
Pioneer Fellowship
Dr. Wang, H., Laser ablation system for sub-cellular tissue imaging- TissueVis, ETH Zürich, 2013, Zürich, Switzerland
Anakon 2013 Posterpreis
Kategorie Element- und Isotopenanalytik
Tabersky, D., Nishiguchi, K., Utani, K., Häuselmann, A.M., Fleitmann, D., Günther, D., Sampling strategies for large stalagmites using LA-ICPMS for climate reconstructions, ANAKON 2013, Essen, Gemany, 4.-7. March 2013
2012
Award for the Best Poster Presentation
Frick, D. A., Flamigni, L., Koch, J., Günther, D., Ablation Behaviour of Carbon in LA-ICP-MS and the Consequences for the Internal Standard Selection for the Quantification of Carbon Containing Samples, SCS Fall Meeting 2012 in Zürich, 13 September 2012.
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry Poster Award
Glaus, R., Dorta, L., Günther, D., Isotope Ratio Determination of Objects in the Field by Means of Portable Laser Ablation Sampling and MC-ICPMS, 11th European Workshop on Laser Ablation in Gijón (Spain), 19 – 22 June 2012.
Tagungsstipendien der Fachgruppe Analytische Chemie, GDCh
Frick, D.A., Allner, S., Koch, J., Günther, D., The fate of carbon in LA-ICP-MS – Implications for the analysis of biomaterials, Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry 2012 in Tucson (USA), 9 – 14 January 2012.
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry Poster Award
Frick, D.A., Allner, S., Koch, J., Günther, D. The fate of carbon in LA-ICP-MS – Implications for the analysis of biomaterials, Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry 2012 in Tucson (USA), 9 – 14 January 2012.
2011
The SCS-Metrohm Prizes for Best Oral Presentation in Analytical Chemistry Division
Wang, H.A.O., Grolimund, D., Van Loon, L.R., Borca, C.N., Günther, D., Quantitative Microscopic Studies with High Spatial Resolution of Contaminant Diffusion into Opalinus clay rock, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 2011, Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society 2011.
Swiss Aerosol Sponsorship 2011
Sabrina Gschwind, Flamigni, L., Koch, J., Borovinskaya, O., Groh, S., Niemax, K., Günther, D., Capabilities of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for the detection of nanoparticles carried by monodisperse microdroplets.
Tagungsstipendium Analytische Chemie, GDCh
Daniel Tabersky, I. De Maddalena, M.B. Fricker, R. Dietiker, D. Fleitmann& D. Günther, "Towards past climate reconstruction of speleothems by atmospheric sampling LA-ICPMS", Goldschmidt 2011, August 14-19th, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic.
2011 SCNAT/SCS Chemistry Travel Award
Reto Glaus, D.Günther, "Mobile" Laser Ablation ICPMS? Access to Samples Beyond the Lab, Zaragoza, Spain, 30. January - 4. February 2011, European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry 2011.
2010
Shimadzu Poster Award
Steffen Allner, D. A. Frick, D. Günther, Influence of Oxygen on the Formation of Gas Species in LA-ICPMS, 4. Asia-Pacific Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry (AWPC) in Chengdu, 26.-30. November 2010, China.
SCS DSM Prize - "Best poster in the section analytical chemistry"
Rolf Dietiker, Egorova, T., Hattendorf, B., Günther, D., Zürich, Switzerland, The way to a new ICPMS interface - CFD Investigations on the Plasma expansion in a ICPMS interface, SCS Fall Meeting, Zurich, 16.09.2010.
2010 SCNAT Chemistry Travel Award
M. Tarik, D.Günther, A laser ablation millisecond glow discharge time-of flight mass spectrometer for concurrent elemental and molecular analysis, Fort Meyers, Florida, USA, 04. - 09. January 2010, 2010 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry.
2010 SCNAT Chemistry Travel Award
G. Fontaine, B. Bourdon, B. Hattendorf, D. Günther, Insight into Mass Bias Variation Using MC-ICPMS, Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Fort Meyers, USA, 04. - 09. January 2010, 2010 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry.
2010 SCNAT Chemistry Travel Award
Robert Kovacs, Nishiguchi, K., Utani, K., Günther, D., Direct Analysis of Solid Samples by LA-ICP-MS using Air for Aerosol Transport, Fort Meyers, USA, 04. - 09. January 2010, 2010 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry.
2009
Elsevier Poster Award
R. Kovacs, K.Nishiguchi, K. Utani, D. Günther, A novel aerosol sampling strategy for LA-ICP-MS, CSI XXXVI, 30. August bis 3. September 2009, Budapest, Hungary.
2009 SCNAT Chemistry Travel Award
M. Wälle, J. Koch, D. Tabersky, K. Hametner, N.D. Zhigaldo, S. Katrych, J. Karpinski, D. Günther,
Non-matrix matched quantification of doped and pure magnesium diboride by UV nano- and femtosecond LA-ICP-MS,
CSI XXXVI, 30. August bis 3. September 2009, Budapest, Hungary.
Bunsen-Kirchoff-Preis 2009
Dr. Joachim Koch für seine analytisch-spektroskopischen Arbeiten zur Laserablation mit Femtosekunden-Lasern.
2008
Poster Award
Gisela Fontaine, D. Günther, THP16 Effects of the ICP Operation Conditions on Mass Biass in MC-ICPMS, Temecula, California, USA,7. - 12. January 2008, Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry.
Travel Grant of the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Swiss Chemical Society
Gisela Fontaine, B. Hattendorf, D. Günther, Effects of the ICP Operating Conditions on Mass Bias in MC-ICPMS, Winter Plasma Conference, Temecula, California, 2008.
Elsevier / Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic Spectroscopy Award 2007
J. Koch, S. Schlamp, T. Rösgen, D. Fliegel, D. Günther, Visualization of Aerosol Particles Generated by Near Infrared Nano-and Femtosecond Laser Ablation, Bestes Grundlagenpaper in Atomspektroskopie 2007, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
2007
Poster Award
J. Koch, S. Schlamp, T. Rösgen, D. Fliegel, D. Günther, Visualization of Aerosol Particles Generated by Near Infrared Nano-and Femtosecond Laser Ablation, European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Taormina 2007.
Travel Grant of the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Swiss Chemical Society
M. Wälle, J. Koch, J. Pisonero, D. Günther, Laser Ablation-ICP-MS: Quantification of Femtosecond Laser Ablation Generated Aerosols using Solutionsfor Calibration, Winter Plasma Conference, Taormina 2007.
2006
Mettler Toledo Award 2006 for best oral presentation
N. Bohni, V. Wennrich, B. Hattendorf, D. Günther, The use of Ostracod Shells as a Paleothermometer by Measuring Calcium Isotope Ratios and Trace Elements with ICPMS, Fall meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society, Zürich.
Poster Award
M. Tanner, D. Günther, In torch Laser Ablation ICP-TOFMS, Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Tucson, Arizona 2006.
Travel Grant of the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Swiss Chemical Society
M. Tanner, Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Tucson, Arizona 2006.
Poster Award
Zhonke Wang, B. Hattendorf, D. Günther, Distribution of ion populations in the inductively coupled plasma for mass spectrometry from aerosols generated by laser ablation, 20. ICP-MS Anwendertreffen, Mainz, Germany.
2005
ETH-Medal for an extraordinary PhD-Thesis
H-R. Kuhn, Laser Ablation ICP-MS: Fundamental investigations on aerosols generated by laser ablation at ambient pressure.
2004
Mettler Toledo Award 2004 for best oral presentation
M. Tanner, D. Günther, Direct laser ablation sample introduction for inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry,
Fall meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society, Zürich.
Poster Award
M. Guillong, K. Hametner, D. Günther, Characterization of different new glass reference Materials using a solid state 193 nm Nd:YAG Laser ablation System, Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Poster Award
H-R. Kuhn, D. Günther, Particle-size related elemental fractionation of glass: laser ablation or ICP-MS?
Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry 2004, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
2002
ETH-Medal for an extraordinary PhD-Thesis
B. Hattendorf, Ion Molecule Reactions for the Suppression of Spectral Interferences in Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry.
Award for excellence in oral presentation
M. Guillong, Detlef Günther, LA-ICP-MS:Particle composition and their contribution to sensitivity and accuracy of the method,
Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society.
2001
JAAS Poster-Award
D. Bleiner, Detlef Günther, Mathematical modelling of signal structure in Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry, Winter Conference, Lillehammer, Norway.
2000
CETAC Poster Award
D.Bleiner, D. Günther, Comparison of the laser - induced aerosol transport efficiency of various ablation cells for Laser Ablation - Inductively Coupled Plasma Time Of Flight Mass Spectrometry, Symposium Massenspektrometrische Verfahren der Elementspurenanalyse, Jülich, Germany.
BNASS Student Bursary
D.Bleiner, D. Günther, Biennial National Atomic Spectroscopy Symposium Sheffield, UK.
1999
Agilent Poster Award
A. Plotnikov, D. Bleiner, C. Vogt, D. Guenther, Depth Profile Analysis of various titanium coatings using laser ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma -Time Of Flight Mass Spectrometry, ICP-MS User Meeting, Dresden, Germany.