Category: News
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Sexism in Academia
“Sexism in academia is bad for science and a waste of public funding“: an article which can receive no better introduction than its own title. This one in the Nature Reviews Materials online journal and another similar article in The Conversation are two articles co-authored by two of our members, Ursula Keller and Janet Hering.…
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Rizlan Bernier-Latmani and Tamar Kohn become members of the Academia Europaea 2023
Congratulations to Prof. Rizlan Bernier-Latmani and Prof. Tamar Kohn for being elected as members of the Academia Europaea class of 2023. The Academia Europaea is a non-governmental association that promotes scientific research and education. New members are nominated by existing members and invited by the Council of Academia after group evaluation. Rizlan Bernier-Latmani on Academia…
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Dr. Roy Richard Grinker will discuss his new book, Nobody’s Normal – event hosted by LashuelLab at EPFL
Mental health experts and advocates tell us that “stigma” is the major barrier to mental health care throughout the world. But where did stigma come from? And how can we begin to eradicate it? (Poster provided by LashuelLab at EPFL) Dr. Grinker, a cultural anthropologist, specializing in psychological anthropology will discuss his new book, Nobody’s Normal.…
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Two Advanced Grants for ETH
Congratulations to Prof. Ulrike Lohmann for her Advanced Grant from the European Research Council read more here
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Ursula Keller & Viola Vogel elected to the US National Academy of Sciences
Congratulations to Prof. Ursula Keller and Prof. Viola Vogel on their election as international members of the US National Academy of Sciences! read more here
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Suliana Manley and Sylvie Roke Elected APS Fellows
The ETH-WPF congratulates EPFL Professors Suliana Manley (School of Basic Sciences) and Sylvie Roke (School of Engineering) have been elected Fellows of the American Physical Society. (photo reused from actu.epfl.ch) Suliana Manley’s research focuses on the dynamic assembly of proteins and on developing a physical paradigm for how proteins form mesoscale assemblies. Her lab develops and uses…
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Prof. Ruth Signorell elected as a new member of the European Academy of Sciences
Congratulations to Prof. Ruth Signorell for her election as a new member of the European Academy of Sciences! Prof. Signorell is a Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at ETH Zurich, leading the Chair of Aerosols and Nanoscience. read more here
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EPFL and ETHZ professors in the new class of elected members (2021) of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences
Prof. Dr. Karen Scrivener and Prof. Dr. Sabine Süsstrunk from EPFL, and Prof. Dr. Gabriela Hug and Prof. Dr. Nicola Spaldin from ETHZ, are in the new class of elected members (2021) of the Swiss Academy of Engineering sciences. Read more here.
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Prof. Olga Sorkine-Hornung named ACM Fellow
D-INFK Professor Olga Sorkine-Hornung has been named an ACM Fellow for her contributions to digital geometry processing, computer animation, computer graphics and visual computing. Olga Sorkine-Hornung, professor at the Institute of Visual Computing, is one of the 95 recognized Fellows. ACM’s most prestigious member grade recognizes the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding…