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New appointments and promotions of women faculty
Appointments at ETH Zurich Professor Tanja Stadler (*1981), currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, as Associate Professor of Computational Evolution. Tanja Stadler is a leading researcher in the field of phylogenetic dynamics. Using newly developed mathematical and bioinformatic methods, she has made a major contribution to enabling epidemiological parameters to be estimated directly…
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Rapid Response Team
The WPF Rapid Response Team is available to all members to offer advice and support for matters that require a quick response. The members who are featured below are senior and retired professors who have decades of experience to share, some of them have previous experience working in a support team. All matters will stay…
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New appointments, promotions and retirements of women faculty
Appointments at ETH Zurich Professor Whitney Behr (*1981), currently Assistant Professor at the University of Texas, Austin, USA, as Associate Professor of Structural Geology and Tectonics. Whitney Behr studies questions relating to structural geology, the mechanics and rheology of the continental lithosphere, and quaternary geomorphology as a record that can be used to reconstruct…
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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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History
The foundation for the ETH WPF was laid in 2011 as a group of senior women professors gathered to discuss the idea of creating a forum.
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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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New professorial appointments and promotions
Appointment at ETH Zurich: Professor Ursula Renold (*1961), currently Senior Scientist at the Swiss Economic Institute (KOF) at ETH Zurich, as Full Professor of Education Systems. During her many years’ service as Director of the Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology, Ursula Renold has made a substantial contribution to the expansion of the…
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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…
