Angelika Bischof-Delaloye is a former emeritus professor at the University of Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland.[1][2] Career From 1998 to 2009, Bischof-Delaloye was a full professor at the Nuclear Medicine Department at the University Lausanne, and the Department Head of Nuclear Medicine at Lausanne University Hospital.[3] She served on the European Board of Nuclear Medicine in 2006.[4] In 2011, she wrote the editorial article for European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (EJNMMI) to introduce the open-access journal called European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Research (EJNMMI Res)[5] in the area of basic, translational and clinical research in…
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Margit Osterloh (born 23 July 1943 in Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany) is a German and Swiss economist. Research Osterloh’s research areas include: Organizational Theory, Theory of the Firm, Innovation and Technology Management, Process Management, Knowledge Management, Trust Management, Philosophy of Science, Gender Economics, Corporate Governance, Research Governance, Migration Policy and Aleatoric Democracy. In the media she expresses her opinion on the following research topics: Management Pay Osterloh advocates a cutback of bonus payments in upper management. She argues that pay for performance hampers creativity and intrinsic motivation.[1][2][3][4] Academic Rankings In August 2012 Osterloh, together with Alfred Kieser, launched an…
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Natalie Stingelin (also published under Natalie Stutzmann and Natalie Stingelin-Stutzmann), Fellow of the Materials Research Society and Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), is a materials scientist and current chair of the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (since 2016; chair since 2022),[3] the University of Bordeaux (since 2017) and Imperial College (since 2009).[1][4] She led the European Commission Marie Curie INFORM network and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances. Early life and education Stingelin originally wanted to study architecture but instead decided to study materials science at ETH…
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Véréna Paravel (born 21 April 1971 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland) is a French anthropologist and artist who works in film, video, and photography. Biography Véréna Paravel (2013)Verena Paravel was born in 1971.[1] She is an anthropologist, artist and filmmaker who works in the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University in Cambridge, USA, and in Paris, France. Her work is in the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and has been exhibited at the Tate, the Whitney Biennial, MoMA, documenta 14 and elsewhere. Her award-winning films and videos have been exhibited at Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, New York, Toronto, Venice…
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Andréa M. Maechler (born 1969 in Geneva) is a Swiss economist. Career Maechler studied at the University of Toronto, at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, at the Institut de hautes études en administration publique in Lausanne and at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she received her doctorate in international economics in 2000.[1][2] She has worked at the Organization for Economic Cooperation (OECD), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). From 2013 to 2014, Maechler was deputy head of the secretariat at the European Systemic Risk…
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Marianne Schmid Mast is a Professor of Organizational Behavior and Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC) of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Biography Marianne Schmid Mast was born in Olten (Switzerland) and did her primary school in Däniken, Solothurn. When she was 10, her family moved to Oberkulm and she went to Bezirksschule Unterkulm and then to Handelsschule (Alte KantonSchule Aarau) in Aarau. After receiving her business diploma, she completed her Matura in economics at the École Supérieure de Commerce in Neuchâtel.[1] She worked for a computer company for a year, and later on she spent half…
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Annette Oxenius (born 10 November 1968) is a Swiss immunologist who is a professor of immunology at ETH Zurich. Her research considers host-pathogen interactions and how the immune system responds to pathogenic infections. She was awarded the Cloëtta Prize in 2022 and elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2023. Early life and education Oxenius was born in Zürich and went to school in there. She studied biochemistry and immunology at the University of Zurich, where she worked in the Institute for Experimental Immunology. She moved to ETH Zurich for her doctoral research, where she generated genetically modified…
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Claudia de Rham is a Swiss theoretical physicist working at the interface of gravity, cosmology and particle physics. She is based at Imperial College London. She was one of the UK finalists in the Physical Sciences and Engineering category of the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in 2018 for revitalizing the theory of massive gravity, and won the award in 2020. Early life and education de Rham was born in Lausanne.[1] She completed her undergraduate studies in France, receiving an engineering degree in physics at the École Polytechnique in Paris in 2000.[2] She received a master’s degree in Physics from…
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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 deep brain stimulation and brain repair in relation to movement disorders.[5] In collaboration with EPFL, she is currently leading a clinical feasibility study that evaluates the therapeutic potential of this spinal cord stimulation technology, without a brain implant, to improve the walking ability in people with partial spinal cord injury…
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Henriette Saloz-Joudra (1855–1928) was a Russian-born physician, the first woman to open a private medical practice in Geneva, Switzerland. Biography She was born Henriette Joudra in 1855 in Vitebsk, the Russian Empire (now Belarus), to a family of landowners, Russian-Polish aristocrats.[1][2] She began her schooling in Saint Petersburg with the encouragement of an uncle, the surgeon Nikolay Pirogov (1810-1881), who vocally supported female education in the science and medicine. She went on to graduate as a physician from the University of Geneva.[3] In 1883, a few months after she and her fiancé graduated from medical school, she married Charles-Eugène Saloz.…