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ETH Zurich appoints women professors – Sept. 2014
The Board of ETH Zurich recently appointed the following women professors: Prof. Dr Petra S. Dittrich (*1974), currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, as Associate Professor of Bioanalytics. Prof. Dr Cornelia Halin Winter (*1974), currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, as Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Immunology. Dr Ulrike Grossner (*1973), currently Principal Scientist…
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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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Ursula Keller receives Weizmann Women and Science Award
Ursula Keller received the award for pioneering and seminal contributions to ultrafast lasers technology and important breakthroughs in attosecond science. She has been a co-founder and board member for Time-Bandwidth Products (acquired by JDSU in 2014) and for GigaTera (acquired by Time-Bandwidth in 2003). Her research interests are exploring and pushing the frontiers in ultrafast…
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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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New professors appointed at ETHZ and EPFL
On December 7, the ETH Board announced the appointment 14 new professors at the ETHZ and the EPFL. Of these 14 professors, 4 of them are women; 3 at the ETHZ and 1 at the EPFL, who coincidentally is the only professor that the EPFL appointed this term. Their fields of research are in the…
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Charles Hard Townes Award
Ursula Keller, Director of the National Center of Competence for Research for Molecular Ultrafast Science and Technology and Full Professors at the Department of Physics since 1997, receives the prestigious Charles Hard Townes Award 2015 for her “seminal contributions in the fields of octave-spanning lasers, frequency comb technology, and high repetition-rate ultrafast semiconductor disc lasers”. The award…
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Olga Sorkine-Hornung wins Rössler Prize
Computer scientist Olga Sorkine has won this year’s Rössler Prize – a research award of CHF 200’000 – for her work in the field of computer graphics. Since 2009, the Rössler Prize has been awarded annually to young professors at ETH Zurich who are building their careers. The award is sponsored by ETH alumnus and…
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Prof. Ruth Signorell receives the Humboldt Prize
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded a Humboldt Research Award to Ruth Signorell in recognition of her outstanding past accomplishments in research and teaching. Congratulations!
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7 Actionable Strategies
Seven Actionable Strategies for Advancing Women in STEM fields In the scientific journal affiliated to the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), a group of scientists line out seven strategies which would help to gain and retain women in science, engineering, and medicine. The implementation of these strategies would be a step to overcome…
