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Prof. Melanie Blokesch appointed as HHMI International Research Scholar
HHMI, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation announce the selection of 41 International Research Scholars, early-career scientists poised to advance biomedical research across the globe. Melanie Blokesch studies Vibrio cholerae, a water-dwelling bacterium that wreaks havoc in the gut and causes the diarrhoeal disease cholera. Her team…
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What We Do
The ETH Women Professors Forum is an independent association under the umbrella of ETH Zurich.
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Lecture series at ETHZ in the spring semester 2024
In the coming spring semester, the ETH Zurich is hosting a series of Inaugural, Farewell and Introductory Lectures that are open to the public. Some of our members are among the professors giving a lecture. Spanning all ETH departments, the lectures will take place from February 21, 2024 to May 30, 2024, mostly in the…
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Prof. Olga Sorkine-Hornung named ACM Fellow
D-INFK Professor Olga Sorkine-Hornung has been named an ACM Fellow for her contributions to digital geometry processing, computer animation, computer graphics and visual computing. Olga Sorkine-Hornung, professor at the Institute of Visual Computing, is one of the 95 recognized Fellows. ACM’s most prestigious member grade recognizes the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding…
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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).
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3rd annual Chemical Research in Toxicology Young Investigator Award
Shana Sturla, Associate Professor at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology, has been nominated for the third annual Chemical Research in Toxicology Young Investigator Award of the American Chemical Society. She accepted the award at the 248th ACS National Meeting in San Francisco / California (USA), in August 2014.
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Eleni Chatzi elected to the Swiss National Foundation Research Council
Congratulations to Prof. Eleni Chatzi on her election as a new member of the Swiss National Foundation Research Council for the Programmes Division. read more here
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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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2021 ETH WPF General Assembly
Formal General Assembly – business and Discussion with Vice Presidents from EPFL and ETHZ