Category: News
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Prof. Melanie Blokesch awarded with an ERC Consolidator Grant
Melanie Blokesch (Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, EPFL) has been awarded with an ERC consolidator award for 2018-2023. Her Proposal was entitled: Pathoecology of Vibrio cholerae to better understand cholera index cases in endemic areas. Melanie had previously been awarded an ERC starting grant (for 2013-2018). Congratulations!
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General Assembly 2017
The general assembly of the ETH Women Professors Forum took place on March 29 simultaneously at ETH Zurich and EPFL with a video link between them. Key issue: expanding membership to include female researchers at one of the four Research Institutes of the ETH Domain holding a professor title at a Swiss Higher Education Institution…
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Prof. Aude Billard awarded with an ERC Advanced Grant
Prof. Aude Billard has been awarded with an ERC Advanced Grant for her proposal entitled: Skill Acquisition in Humans and Robots. Congratulations!
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Remembering Mildred Dresselhaus
The MIT professor who helped pioneer nanoscience, launched a new field of energy research and was one of the first scientists to imagine that it was possible to make carbon nanotubes, died Monday at the age of 86. “Yesterday, we lost a giant—an exceptionally creative scientist and engineer who was also a delightful human being,”…
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Retaining Postdoc Mothers in an Academic Career
The postdoc period of a scientific career—with its short-term contracts, frequent relocation requirements and limited openings for more stable, tenure-track positions—makes aspiring to a permanent academic career challenging even under the best of circumstances. Indeed, according to a 2015 study by the European Science Foundation, only 30 percent of postdocs opt to remain in academia…
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Prof. Bernier-Latmani awarded with ERC Consolidator Grant
Prof. Rizlan Bernier-Latmani has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for her proposal entitled: UNEARTH Uranium isotope fractionation : a novel biosignature to identify microbial metabolism on early Earth. Congratulations!
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University of Oldenburg Women Professors Forum, October 2016
To celebrate the establishment of the new Oldenburg Women Professors Forum an opening event was held on Thursday 27th October from 12noon – 15.00pm. Prof. Ursula Keller (the creator of the ETH Women Professors Forum in 2012, and president from 2012 – 2016) was invited as a keynote speaker and made a presentation “At the…
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ERC Starting Grants 2016
Two young women scientists from ETH Zurich and one Professor from EPFL are to receive ERC Starting Grants. The European Research Council offers these grants to support talented young researchers as they embark on their academic careers. The selected projects come from several different research areas. Katrien De Bock, Associate Professor of Exercise and Health,…
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Yes to career – and family
On 3 September 2016 the German Women Academics Association presented the Sophie La Roche Prize for the third time. It was awarded to Prof. Dr. Martina Havenith, from the University of Ruhr-Bochum. The distinguished physicist has promoted the rights of women in research and teaching through her career, and has always been campaigner for equal…
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Worldwide media attention for the Millennium Technology Prize
The prize was nominated to Frances Arnold for her pioneering role in directed evolution, a new and quick way to engineer proteins. Articles on the Millennium Technology Prize highlighted the broad impact that the prize-winning innovation has on improving the quality of life for humankind and on environmental protection. With Frances Arnold’s innovations, non-renewable and…