Sophie Schwartz is a Swiss neuroscientist who is a professor at the University of Geneva. She studies the neural mechanisms that underpin experience-dependent changes in the human brain. Early life and educationSchwartz is from Switzerland. She was an undergraduate student at the University of Geneva, where she majored in biology.[1] She moved to Lausanne as a graduate student, working toward a second bachelor’s degree in psychology.[1] She studied dreams through neurophysical investigations at the University of Lausanne.[2] After completing her doctorate, Schwartz joined the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience as a postdoctoral researcher.[1] CareerSchwartz joined the faculty at the University of…
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Claudia R. Binder (born in Montreal) is a Swiss, Canadian and Colombian environmental scientist working in the field of human-environment systems and sustainability s. Since March 2016 she has been a full professor the La Mobilière Chair on Urban Ecology and Sustainable Living at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and founding director of the Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS)[1] at School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC)[2] of EPFL. Since January 2020 she has been serving as dean of ENAC at EPFL.[3] Early life and education Binder was born in Montreal, Canada, and…
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Aleksandra Radenovic (born in 1975 in Croatia) is a Swiss and Croatian biophysicist. Her research focuses on the development of experimental tools to study single-molecule biophysics. She is a professor of biological engineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and head of the Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology. Career Radenovic studied physics at the University of Zagreb, where she wrote her Master thesis on Raman spectroscopy of Beta-Carotene[citation needed]. She then joined Giovanni Dietler’s Laboratory of Physics of Living Matter, then located at University of Lausanne, and in 2003, she graduated with a PhD on cryo atomic force microscopy.[3][4]…
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Angelika Steger (born 1962)[1] is a mathematician and computer scientist whose research interests include graph theory, randomized algorithms, and approximation algorithms. She is a professor at ETH Zurich.[2] Education and career After earlier studies at the University of Freiburg and Heidelberg University, Steger earned a master’s degree from Stony Brook University in 1985.[2] She completed a doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1990, under the supervision of Hans Jürgen Prömel, with a dissertation on random combinatorial structures,[3] and earned her habilitation from Bonn in 1994. After a visiting position at the University of Kiel, she became a professor at…
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Nadia Magnenat Thalmann is a computer graphics scientist and robotician and is the founder and head of MIRALab at the University of Geneva. She has chaired the Institute for Media Innovation at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore from 2009 to 2021. Biography Thalmann received an MS in Psychology, an MS in Biology and a Master in Biochemistry at the University of Geneva. She obtained a PhD in Quantum Physics in 1977 from the same university. She started her career as an assistant professor at the University Laval in Canada, then became a professor at HEC, University of Montreal until 1988.…
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Sonia Isabelle Seneviratne (born on 5 June 1974 in Lausanne[1]) is a Swiss climate scientist, professor at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science of the ETH Zurich.[2] She is a specialist of extreme climate events. Biography Sonia Seneviratne studied biology at the University of Lausanne and environmental sciences at the ETH Zurich. in 2002, she received a PhD in atmospheric and climate science from ETH Zurich. She worked as postdoctoral researcher at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Since 2007, she is professor at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science of the ETH Zurich. Sonia Seneviratne is a…
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Clémence Corminboeuf (born 1977) is a Swiss chemist who is Professor of Computational chemistry at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She was awarded the Swiss Chemical Society 2021 Heilbronner-Hückel Award. Early life and education Corminboeuf earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Geneva.[1][2] She moved to Canada for her master’s research, where she studied at the National Research Council Canada Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences. She worked at both the Dresden University of Technology and the University of Geneva for her graduate studies, where she developed quantum chemical approaches to better calculate nuclear magnetic resonance of…
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Silvia Arber (born 1968 in Geneva) is a Swiss neurobiologist.[4][5] She teaches and researches at both the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel Switzerland. Education Silvia Arber studied biology at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and completed her doctorate in 1995 at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI) in Basel. Career and research Arber subsequently worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Columbia University in New York City. In 2000, she returned to Basel as a Professor of Neurobiology and Cell Biology continuing her research work and teaching at…
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Alessandra Iozzi (born 25 January 1959) is an Italian-born mathematician known for her research in geometric group theory. Originally from Rome, she holds Italian, Swiss, and American citizenships,[1] and works as an adjunct professor of mathematics at ETH Zurich.[2] Education and careerIozzi obtained a laurea at the Sapienza University of Rome in 1982, supervised by Massimo Picardello. Then, she moved to the University of Chicago where she earned a Master’s Degree in 1985 and a Ph.D. in 1989.[1] Her dissertation, Invariant Geometric Structures: A Non-Linear Extension of the Borel Density Theorem, was supervised by Robert Zimmer.[3] After holding a lecturer…
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Isabelle M. Mansuy (born December 5, 1965 in Cornimont, France) is a professor in neuroepigenetics in the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich and the Department of Health Science and Technology of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. She is known for her work on the mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance in relation to childhood trauma.[1][2] Education and career Mansuy studied molecular biology and biotechnology at the University Louis Pasteur and the École Supérieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg.[3] Mansuy went on to earn a PhD at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel[4] then a postdoc at Columbia University, where…