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Prof. Carmela Troncoso wins award on data privacy engineering
Congratgulations to Professor Carmela Troncoso and her all-women Team! The CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) and Inria have awarded the 2017 “privacy protection” prize to a European research team. The prize was awarded during the 11th international conference Computers Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) to Seda GÜRSES, Carmela TRONCOSO and Claudia DIAZ for their article…
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Julia Vogt and Mahsa Shoaran have received ERC Starting Grants
Congratulations to Professors Julia Vogt (ETH Zurich) and Mahsa Shoaran (EPFL), members of the WPF, who have received a 2021 ERC Starting Grant. Project(s) Information *Unfortunately, this year, following the termination of the exploratory talks, Switzerland is considered as a non-associated third country. As a result, Host Institutions established in Switzerland are not eligible for funding. SERI will be offering…
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Karen Scrivener selected by UN Secretary-General to be Representative in 10-Member Group for Sustainable Development Goals
Congratulations to Prof. Karen Scrivener for being selected by the United Nations Secretary-General for the Group of Ten High-level Representatives of Civil Society, Private Sector and Scientific Community to Promote Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (10-Member Group). As an internationally recognized engineering expert in developing environmentally friendly building materials from decades…
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Sereina Riniker is the youngest Professor at ETH Zurich
Prof. Sereina Riniker is professor for Computational Chemistry at the Institute of Physical Chemistry. At 29 years old, Sereina Riniker is currently the youngest professor at ETH Zurich (elected in June 2014). In the interview she explains how she experienced her start and how she wants to motivate her students. More on the ETH-website
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Advancing Women’s Leadership: Blocking Bias at Work
https://youtu.be/6fudKu8Pxak Stanford video on women in business Women make up half the population and have earned more than half of all undergraduate degrees in the U.S. since the early 1980s; yet women comprise only 17% of the U.S Congress, 4% of Fortune 500 CEOs, and 16% of the board of directors of major corporations. Learn…
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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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Is the Professor Bossy or Brilliant? Much Depends on Gender
People tend to think more highly of men than women in professional settings, praise men for the same things they criticize women for By using data from 14 million student reviews on the Rate My Professors site, a university history professors just wanted to visualize large texts. But his charts reveal how students are influenced…
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+ 4% female Consolidator Grantees in 2014
The European Research Council published the figures about the donated Consolidator Grants in 2014. The overall rate of grantees was 15% out of all applicants. The share of female Consolidator Grantees was 28% which is an increase of 4% compared to the previous year. Read more… Website of Grant Access of ETH Zurich and University…
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New appointment and promotion of women faculty
Appointment at ETH Zurich: Anne Lacaton (*1955), currently a partner in the architecture firm Lacaton&Vassal, Paris, France, as Associate Professor of Architecture and Design. Anne Lacaton is an internationally acclaimed architect. Her designs and constructions make a clear statement in support of the human rather than the iconic. She shows great consideration for the concerns…
