Tag: Excellence
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Anna Fontcuberta i Morral appointed as EPFL president
Congratulations to Prof. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral for her appointment as EPFL president, starting on January 1, 2025. She has been at EPFL since 2008, when she began as Assistant Professor Tenure Track and became Full Professor in 2019. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral is the first woman to head one of the two Swiss Federal…
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Körber Prize 2015
Nicola Spaldin, Professor for Material Theory at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Körber Prize, one of the most prestigious scientific awards in Europe. She receive the EUR 750,000 Körber Prize for the creation of a new class of crystalline compounds that could revolutionise the world of computers.
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ERC Advanced Grants
Julia Vorholt, Professor of microbiology at ETH Zurich’s Institute of Microbiology and a pioneer in understanding the metabolism of bacteria and how they adapt to plants, received the ERC Advanced Grant for her project aiming at encouraging sustainable plant growth and diminish plant diseases.
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Results of studies by Fraunhofer Institute
At the afternoon program of the ETH Women Professors’ Forum’s General Assembly, Prof. Dr. Martina Schraudner presented the results of her latest studies. The presentation was followed with great interest and discussed by the present members and the invited guests. With the courtesy Martina Schraudner we publish two of her studies: PDF “Exzellenz in wissenschaftlichen…
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Death by a Thousand Cuts
Women are being forced out of careers in science and engineering, not because they can’t juggle babies and Bunsen burners, but because they’re discouraged at every turn by thousands of small, sexist moments that make them feel unwelcome and unworthy. Reddit interim CEO Ellen Pao, who just lost a major sexdiscrimination lawsuit against her former…
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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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Best way to flourish excellence
Is a ticking clock the best way for scientists to flourish? The Medical Research Council in UK thought it over and removed the time-bound criteria. The Medical Research Council in UK reflected whether time is since PhD an adequate or fair measurement of a person’s creativity, experience or productivity. They concluded that it is not.…
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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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National Academy of Engineering Elect
Janet Hering, Director of EAWAG and Full Professor at the Department of Environmental Systems Science since 2007, was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for her contributions to understanding and practice of removal of inorganic contaminants from drinking water. The Election is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an…
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Sereina Riniker – listed among the young top scientists
Sereina Riniker, ETH Zurich’s youngest professor was named to the Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Science for 2015. Prof. Sereina Riniker develops “methods and software for classical molecular dynamics simulations and cheminformatics, and their application to biological and chemical questions” and combines them with potential future application in computer-aided drug design. Read more about her…