Estefanía Tapias (born 19 May 1988)[1] is a Colombian city climate researcher and entrepreneur active in Switzerland.[2] Career In 2012 Estefania Tapias completed a degree in architecture at the Polytechnic University of Turin, and in 2016 she received a doctorate in urban climatology and future cities at ETH Zürich. She was a lecturer in the topic at the ETH from 2013 to 2016. She applied big data to research into the influence of climatic and architectural conditions on the quality of life in cities.[3] Tapias also works in the Future Cities Laboratory at the Singapore-ETH Centre and on her own…
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Regula Tschumi is a Swiss social anthropologist and art historian. Bibliography Regula Tschumi has spent time in East, West and South Africa, researching into contemporary African art.[1] In 2006 she published a standard work on the figurative coffins of the Ga people.[2] In this book she traces the origins of these coffins in the art and religion of the Ga, and questions the history of their evolution. In the course of this research Regula Tschumi discovered the coffin-artist and art brut painter Ataa Oko, born 1919, from La, in Ghana. Ataa Oko was making figurative coffins as long ago as…
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Ursula Keller (born 21 June 1959) is a Swiss physicist. She has been a physics professor at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland since 2003 with a speciality in ultra-fast laser technology, an inventor and the winner of the 2018 European Inventor Award by the European Patent Office.[1] Career Ursula Keller grew up in a working-class family.[2] After graduating as a physics engineer in 1984 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, she continued her studies at Stanford University, where she obtained a master’s degree in applied physics in 1987, and then continued with a doctorate in physics obtained in…
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Ruth Chiquet-Ehrismann (9 November 1954 – 4 September 2015) was a Swiss biochemist and cell biologist working on interactions in the extracellular matrix.[1][2][3] LifeRuth Chiquet-Ehrismann was born in Zürich. She received her Ph.D. from the ETH Zürich in 1981. Her mentors were Hans M. Eppenberger and David C. Turner. As a postdoctoral fellow she worked with Robert Dottin at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, US. In 1984 she joined the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel as a Junior group leader and was promoted to Senior group leader in 1993. In 2006 she was appointed as Adjunct…
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Victoria Lye-Hua Chan-Palay (born 9 October 1945) is a Singaporean-born neuroscientist who has worked in the United States and Switzerland.[1][2][3] Early life and education Chan is the second daughter of noted Singaporean swimming coach Dr. Chan Ah Kow.[4][5] Among her four brothers and two sisters is Patricia Chan, who represented Singapore in swimming at the Southeast Asian Games in the 1960s and 1970s.[5][6] As a young woman, Chan excelled at school in science, and herself represented Singapore in international swimming competitions as well.[Note 1] She left Singapore in 1962 with a scholarship to Smith College, from which she graduated in…
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Ana M. L. G. Cannas da Silva (born 1968) is a Portuguese mathematician specializing in symplectic geometry and geometric topology. She works in Switzerland as an adjunct professor in mathematics at ETH Zurich.[1] Early life and education Cannas was born in Lisbon. After studying at St. John de Britto College,[2] she earned a licenciatura in mathematics in 1990 from the Instituto Superior Técnico in the University of Lisbon.[1] She then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate studies, earning a master’s degree in 1994 and completing her Ph.D. in 1996. Her dissertation, Multiplicity Formulas for Orbifolds, was supervised…
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Chloé Frammery, also known as Chloé F., is a French-Swiss mathematician, activist, vlogger, and lecturer. Her media coverage and popularity[1][2] are due in particular for her contribution to the information about the COVID-19 pandemic as part of the protests against responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Biography Chloé Frammery is a mathematics teacher at the orientation cycle [fr] at Genève[10] from 2007[11] to 2022,[12] she was dismissed by the Canton of Geneva public education department in 2022. Her parents are engineers. Her mother was municipal councillor (legislative) of the Swiss Socialist Party in the city of Geneva from 2007 to 2011.[11]…
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Carola Suárez-Orozco is a cultural developmental psychologist, academic, and author. She is a Professor in Residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Director of the Immigration Initiative at Harvard.[1] She is also the co-founder of Re-Imagining Migration, a nonprofit organization.[2] Suárez-Orozco has focused her research on immigrant children and youth with a particular attention on highlighting the experiences regarding educational contexts. She also works extensively to elucidate how the process of immigration affects immigrant children, adolescents, and young adults. She has authored or co-authored several winning books, including Transformations: Immigration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents, Children of Immigration, Learning a New…
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Shih-Chii Liu is a professor at the University of Zürich. Her research interests include developing brain-inspired sensors, algorithms, and networks; and their neural electronic equivalents. Education and career Liu pursued a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[1] and received her Ph.D. in 1997 from the Department of Computation and Neural Systems at California Institute of Technology.[2] A year later she joined the Sensors Group at the Institute of Neuroinformatics. A year later, she joined the Institute of Neuroinformatics,[3] University of Zürich and ETH Zürich as a group leader, and became a professor at the University…
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Pearl Pu is a Chinese-born Swiss computer scientist. After completing her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, she obtained the Research Initiation Award (known as the Career Award) from NSF before moving to Switzerland. She has been a faculty member and senior scientist at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,[1] where she founded the Human-Computer Interaction Group in 2000.[2] In 1997, she co-founded the company, Iconomic Systems SA, known for the development of an agent-based paradigm for travel e-commerce and was chairperson until its sale to i:FAO in 2001.[3] She spent 6 months each as visiting scholar at Stanford University in…