Category: News
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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…
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New Co-Chair of Leadership Summit
Silvia Dorn, Professor Emerita at the Department of Environmental Systems Science, Silvia Dorn has been appointed as Co-Chair of the International Entomology Leadership Summit: Improving the Human Condition through Insect Science, by the Entomological Society of America (ESA). This Summit convenes leaders and key partners to take on great challenges worldwide to which entomology can make a unique…
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General Assembly 2016
On April 19th the 5th general assembly of the ETH WPF took place at AKI Zurich. Key Issue of the GA was the proposal to expand the ETH WPF membership to include women faculty at EPFL (ETH Lausanne). The ETH WPF elected the following members for the WPF Executive Board: Ulrike Kutay &…
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ETH Professor Petra Dittrich honored
Last week, the European Research Council (ERC) announced the winners of the Consolidator Grants for talented young researchers. Petra Dittrich, a researcher at ETH, is one of those to receive the much-coveted funding. ETH professor Petra Dittrich uses lab-on-a-chip technology to develop miniaturized analysis systems for application in biology and chemistry. She would like to…
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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…