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…
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Regula Tschumi
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…
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Ursula Keller
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…
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Ruth Chiquet-Ehrismann
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…
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Victoria Lye-Hua Chan-Palay
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…
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Ana M. L. G. Cannas da Silva
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]…
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Chloé Frammery
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…
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Carola Suárez-Orozco
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…
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Shih-Chii Liu
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…
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Pearl Pu
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…