• 21st Century - Neuroscience

    Melanie Greter

    16/04/2024 - By 

    Melanie Greter is a Swiss neuroimmunologist and a Swiss National Science Foundation Professor in the Institute of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich. Greter explores the ontogeny and function of microglia and border-associated macrophages of the central nervous system to understand how they maintain homeostasis and contribute to brain-related…

  • 21st Century - Veterinary Medicine

    Franziska B. Grieder

    16/04/2024 - By 

    Franziska B. Grieder is a Swiss-American veterinary scientist. She is the director of the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs at the National Institutes of Health. Grieder was a faculty member and researcher at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Early life and education Born in Dayton, Ohio, Grieder…

  • 21st Century

    Jocelyne Bloch

    16/04/2024 - By 

    Jocelyne Bloch (born 1971) is a Swiss neuroscientist and a neurosurgeon at Lausanne University Hospital and at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).[2][3] Life Bloch graduated in the Faculty of Medicine of Lausanne University in December 1994 and she obtained her neurosurgical degree in 2002.[4] Her area of expertise is…

  • 20th Century

    Lotte Loewe

    16/04/2024 - By 

    Lotte Luise Friederike Loewe (7 November 1900–unknown) was a German chemist known for her published research in organic chemistry.[1][2] Loewe was born in Breslau (then part of Germany and now called Wroclaw) to Helene (Druey) Loewe.[3] She received her doctorate in chemistry from the University of Breslau (now the University…

  • 21st Century - Mathematics

    Eva Bayer-Fluckiger

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    Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (born 25 June 1951) is a Hungarian and Swiss mathematician. She is an Emmy Noether Professor Emeritus at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She has worked on several topics in topology, algebra and number theory, e.g. on the theory of knots, on lattices, on quadratic forms and on…

  • 21st Century - Mathematics

    Meike Maria Elisabeth Akveld

    16/04/2024 - By 

    Meike Maria Elisabeth Akveld is a Swiss mathematician and textbook author, whose professional interests include knot theory, symplectic geometry, and mathematics education. She is a tenured senior scientist and lecturer in the mathematics and teacher education group in the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zurich.[1][2][3] She is also the organizer of the Mathematical Kangaroo competitions in Switzerland,[4] and president…

  • 21st Century - Robotics

    Aude Billard

    16/04/2024 - By 

    Aude Billard Aude G. Billard (born c. August 6, 1971)[1] is a Swiss physicist in the fields of machine learning and human-robot interactions.[2] As a full professor at the School of Engineering at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Billard’s research focuses on applying machine learning to support robot learning through human guidance. Billard’s work…

  • 21st Century

    Regula Rytz

    15/04/2024 - By 

    Regula Rytz (born 2 March 1962) is a Swiss historian and politician of the Green Party of Switzerland. She was a member of the National Council from 2011 to 2022.[2] From 2012 to 2016, she was the co-president of the Green Party of Switzerland. She was the party president from…

  • 20th Century

    Grete Kellenberger-Gujer

    15/04/2024 - By 

    Grete Kellenberger-Gujer (1919–2011) was a Swiss molecular biologist known for her discoveries on genetic recombination and restriction modification system of DNA. She was a pioneer in the genetic analysis of bacteriophages and contributed to the early development of molecular biology.[1][2] Biography After earning her matura in classics at the Töchterschule…