Professor Adrian Perrig, who leads the Network Security Group at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the prestigious ESORICS 2025 Outstanding Research Award.
The award recognises Perrig’s long-standing contributions to building secure network systems and his pioneering work on the SCION Internet architecture. SCION (Scalability, Control, and Isolation On Next-Generation Networks) is a next-generation Internet architecture designed to provide highly secure, reliable and high-performance connectivity. It addresses fundamental Internet security and availability challenges, including protection against routing attacks, network failures and DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks.
Under Adrian Perrig’s leadership, the Network Security Group has been driving SCION from research to practical deployment, enabling real-world adoption through collaborations with industry partners and the co-founding of Anapaya Systems.
The ESORICS Outstanding Research Award is particularly significant because it is not handed out lightly: nominees are proposed by the ESORICS Steering Committee, and the final decision is made by a vote among its members. This selectivity underscores how meaningful the distinction is, as it rewards long-term, technically innovative contributions with lasting impact in the area of computer security. ESORICS (the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security) is one of Europe’s leading security conferences, bringing together top academics and practitioners. Receiving this award places Perrig alongside other researchers whose work has helped advance the field of security. It is a meaningful recognition of his contributions and of his ongoing efforts to support the development of secure and resilient network systems.