WPF Events

  • Tue 27. Oct 2026
    12:00

    “Lessons in Leadership” Online Webinar

    Join us over your lunch break to listen to Prof. Dr. Vanessa Wood speak about her observations and experiences in leadership in different academic functions and join in the discussion about the opportunities and challenges. The webinar is also open to professors who are not members and to women in earlier academic stages. We therefore encourage you…

    Join us over your lunch break to listen to Prof. Dr. Vanessa Wood speak about her observations and experiences in leadership in different academic functions and join in the discussion about the opportunities and challenges.

    The webinar is also open to professors who are not members and to women in earlier academic stages. We therefore encourage you to invite other women who you think might benefit from attending on this topic. 

    Join the webinar on Teams here.

    Vanessa Wood

Past Events

  • Thu 13. Sep 2012
    12:00

    Research and teaching in favour of a more sustainable World Food System. Is there a female perspective in natural science?

    In the labs: Odour perception in the brain and female insects’ behaviour; insects on the move. Also: The successful students’ debate. Experience of being Head of an ETH Department.

    Speaker: Silvia Dorn

    • ETHZ Environmental Systems Science D-USYS

    In the labs: Odour perception in the brain and female insects’ behaviour; insects on the move. Also: The successful students’ debate. Experience of being Head of an ETH Department.

    Schmelzbergstrasse 7, Room LFO G 28

  • Mon 22. Oct 2012
    12:00

    Research on ultrafast lasers and attosecond science

    Included a tour of some of the labs. Insight on how to grow a new high-risk research effort after about 10 years and into the experience of being a Director of NCCR MUST (Molecular Ultrafast Science and Technology).

    Speaker: Ursula Keller

    • ETHZ Physics D-PHYS

    Included a tour of some of the labs. Insight on how to grow a new high-risk research effort after about 10 years and into the experience of being a Director of NCCR MUST (Molecular Ultrafast Science and Technology).

    ETH Hönggerberg Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 16, Room HPT E 13

  • Mon 26. Nov 2012
    12:00

    Fate and transport of inorganic contaminants in aquatic systems

    Also: Insight on the rewards and challenges of academic leadership and into the experience of being a Director of a 450-person Federal Research Institute.

    Speaker: Janet Hering

    • ETHZ Environmental Systems Science D-USYS
    • EPFL Environmental Engineering IIE

    Also: Insight on the rewards and challenges of academic leadership and into the experience of being a Director of a 450-person Federal Research Institute.

    Clausiusstrasse, Room CLA J1

  • Wed 27. Feb 2013
    12:00

    How bacteria and cells recognize physical aspects of their environment

    Speaker: Prof. Dr. Viola Vogel In the Labs: Exploration on how cells and bacteria exploit proteins as mechano-chemical switches to sense physical properties of materials and of tissue fibers.

    Speaker: Prof. Dr. Viola Vogel

    In the Labs: Exploration on how cells and bacteria exploit proteins as mechano-chemical switches to sense physical properties of materials and of tissue fibers.

    ETH Hönggerberg Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, Room HCI E 401

Impressions