Category: News
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ERC Starting Grants 2015
The European Research Council announced today that three members of the ETH WPF will receive an ERC starting grant: Vanessa Wood, Professor of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, for her project “Development of Quantitative Metrologies to Guide Lithium Ion Battery Manufacturing”, and Laura Nyström, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, for her project “Soluble dietary…
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Mildred Dresselhaus: How to Enhance Young Female Scientists‘ Success?
A full auditorium for Professor Mildred Dresselhaus – more than 50 female scientists and a few male scientists came to listen to and discuss with the “queen of carbon science” (November 19th, 2015). Professor Dresselhaus shared with the group how she made her scientific career, starting off as an immigrants’ child born in New York’s…
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Advancing Women’s Leadership: Blocking Bias at Work
Stanford video on women in business Women make up half the population and have earned more than half of all undergraduate degrees in the U.S. since the early 1980s; yet women comprise only 17% of the U.S Congress, 4% of Fortune 500 CEOs, and 16% of the board of directors of major corporations. Learn the…
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Mastering Gender in Research Performance, Context and Outcomes
The Seventh EU Gender Summit, Berlin, November 6 – 7, 2015, focused on the topic: Mastering Gender in Research Performance, Context and Outcomes Berlin was the 2015 venue, because the German government recently approved legislation that requires major companies to allocate 30% of non-executive board positions to women. The 2015 Gender Summit examined new research…
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“Choose a job where work becomes pleasure.”
Janet Hering, Director of the water research institute Eawag and professor of environment- biogeochemistry at ETH Zurich, answers 33 questions about her managerial position at Eawag, about the mass immigration initiative and the importance of networking. PDF “Janet Hering – NZZ executive (german only)” Article on NZZ online
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New women professors appointed at ETH Zurich – August 2015
ETH Zurich appointed Dr Petra Claudia Schmid as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Melanie Zeilinger as Assistant Professor of Intelligent Control Systems. Petra C. Schmid is an internationally recognized specialist in the impact of social power and emotional mood on psychological information processing, and has worked as a post-doctoral student at New…
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Women Scientists respond to Nobel laureate’s sexist comments
A Nobel laureate whose comments about the “trouble with girls” involved in science provoked humorous responses from women scientists who tweeted selfies shot in their laboratory. The women scientists responded in a humorous way to the sexist comments a Nobel laureate made at a World Conference which had sparked an outcry. In the meantime the…
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Körber Prize 2015
Nicola Spaldin, Professor for Material Theory at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Körber Prize, one of the most prestigious scientific awards in Europe. She receive the EUR 750,000 Körber Prize for the creation of a new class of crystalline compounds that could revolutionise the world of computers.
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ERC Advanced Grants
Julia Vorholt, Professor of microbiology at ETH Zurich’s Institute of Microbiology and a pioneer in understanding the metabolism of bacteria and how they adapt to plants, received the ERC Advanced Grant for her project aiming at encouraging sustainable plant growth and diminish plant diseases.
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Results of studies by Fraunhofer Institute
At the afternoon program of the ETH Women Professors’ Forum’s General Assembly, Prof. Dr. Martina Schraudner presented the results of her latest studies. The presentation was followed with great interest and discussed by the present members and the invited guests. With the courtesy Martina Schraudner we publish two of her studies: PDF “Exzellenz in wissenschaftlichen…
