# FAN Awards 2026: Outstanding scientific achievements

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## Table of contents

- [Facts](#Facts)
- [Awardees 2026](#Awardees_2026)
- [Stefano Statunato](#Stefano_Statunato)
- [Stephanie Santschi](#Stephanie_Santschi)
- [Zoe Marti](#Zoe_Marti)
- [Nominations](#Nominations)

## Facts

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| **Objective** | The FAN Awards honor early career researchers at UZH for outstanding scientific achievements. Three prizes are awarded in the fields of humanities and social sciences, law and economics, as well as medicine and natural sciences. |
| **Call** | [Call for applications](https://www.grc.uzh.ch/en/engagement/awards.html) annually: Professors nominate suitable candidates from their faculty. |
| **Selection** | The jury consists of three professorial members of UZH, representing the three scientific areas, as well a representative each from FAN (Fonds zur Förderung des akademischen Nachwuchses of UZH Alumni) and the Office Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI). |
| **Award** | FAN Award: CHF 5'000 per awardee |
| **Further notes** | [Awardees of previous years](https://www.grc.uzh.ch/en/engagement/awards/fan-awardees/fan-awardees-previous.html)  [UZH Alumni - FAN](https://www.fan4talents.uzh.ch/de.html) («Fonds zur Förderung des akademischen Nachwuchses of UZH Alumni») |

## Awardees 2026

## Stefano Statunato

Doctoral candidate [at the Chair Mahlmann](https://www.ius.uzh.ch/en/staff/professorships/alphabetical/mahlmann.html)\ Faculty of Law\ Supervisor: Matthias Mahlmann FAN Award in the field of law and economics for his dissertation project:\ **«Science, Truth, and Democracy - Elements of a Normative Theory of Academic Freedom»** [LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefano-statunato-4159a63a9/)\

## Stephanie Santschi

Postdoc at the [Chair of East Asian Art History](https://www.khist.uzh.ch/en/chairs/ostasien.html)\
Department of Art History\
Supervisor: Ewa Machotka

FAN Award in the field of humanities and social sciences for her research project:\
**«Drawing from the Crowd: A Citizen Science Platform for Mapping Ukiyo-e Cultural Geography»**

[University website](https://www.khist.uzh.ch/en/chairs/ostasien/team/Stephanie-Santschi.html)\
[LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stesantschi/)

## Zoe Marti

Doctoral candidate at[Cellerys AG](https://www.cellerys.com/)\
affiliated with the[Institute of Experimental Immunology](https://www.immunology.uzh.ch/en.html)\
Supervisor: Roland Martin

FAN Award in the field of medicine and natural sciences for her dissertation project:\
**«Epstein-Barr Virus and HLA-DR15 Orchestrate Pathogenic B- and T Cell Responses in Multiple Sclerosis»**

[LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-marti-309777151/?originalSubdomain=ch)\
[ResearchGate Profile](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zoe-Marti)

## Nominations

**For this year's awards, the following early career researchers have been nominated by their respective faculties** (in alphabetic order)**:**

Manuela Bizzozzero (MNF), Gillian Muchaamba (VSF), Katharina O.E. Müller (WWF), Valentina Petrović (PhF), Kilian Sprenkamp (WWF), Andrea Spiri (VSF), Dietmar Wohlbauer (MeF), Zhaoyu Yan (TRF)

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Photos: [Nicolas Zonvi](https://www.nicolaszonvi.com/)

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