Awards

Emich-Plakette 2015 (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Massenspektroskopie) Award Ceremony (from left to right): Prof. Buchberger (ASAC) and Prof. Detlef Günther
Emich-Plakette 2015 (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Massenspektroskopie) Award Ceremony (from left to right): Prof. Buchberger (ASAC) and Prof. Detlef Günther

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

2022

DownloadCertificate 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 pageCHAnalysis 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, external pageSCS-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 pageGYSS 2021

Kamyar Mehrabi selected to attend Global Young Scientists Summit 2021.

2020

METAS Prize 2020, external pageMETAS 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 pageSCS-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 pageSCS-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 DownloadEWCP (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 pageSwiss 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, DownloadSCS-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, DownloadAMS14 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.

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