Martha Christina Lux-Steiner, (née Steiner; December 18, 1950, Bern), is a Swiss physicist. From 1995 to 2016 she was the first female tenured professor in the department of physics at the FU Berlin. Lux-Steiner holds a Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class. Life and Works Early yearsMartha Steiner grew up in Eastern Switzerland from 1952. She attended the gymnasium at the cantonal school St. Gallen. From 1970 to 1975 she studied physics and mathematics at the ETH Zürich and completed her foundational studies at the Institute for Biomedical Technology,[1] with a diploma on the subject of computed tomography. Subsequently, she…
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Viviane Baladi (born 23 May 1963) is a mathematician who works as a director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Originally Swiss, she has become a naturalized citizen of France.[1] Her research concerns dynamical systems. Education and career Baladi earned master’s degrees in mathematics and computer science in 1986 from the University of Geneva.[1] She stayed in Geneva for her doctoral studies, finishing a Ph.D. in 1989 under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Eckmann, with a dissertation concerning the zeta functions of dynamical systems.[2] She worked at CNRS beginning in 1990, with a leave…
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Françoise Roch-Ramel (née Ramel; 20 September 1931 – 26 June 2001)[1] was a Swiss pharmacologist and a leading expert on the renal transport of organic anions and cations, especially uric acid. Life and work Born to Edwin Ramel[2] and raised in Château-d’Œx, Switzerland, her major research focus was the renal excretion of drugs and other xenobiotics. She was a professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Lausanne, where she was employed in the early 1960s as an assistant of Professor George Peters.[3] From 1975 to 1990, Roch-Ramel was an associate professor at the University of…
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Marguerite-Isabelle Naville (née de Pourtalès; 1852–1930) was a Swiss artist, photographer and writer. After marrying the Egyptologist Édouard Naville in 1873, she accompanied him on 14 archaeological trips to Egypt, meticulously recording his finds in photographs and drawings. Her extensive diaries and correspondence provide detailed descriptions of life in Egypt at the turn of the 20th century.[1][2][3] Biography Born on 14 August 1852 in Versoix,[4] Canton of Geneva, Isabelle-Marguerite de Pourtalès was the daughter of Alexandre Joseph de Pourtalès (1810–1883), a Prussian count and artillery officer, and his wife Augusta Marie Élisabeth née Saladin (1815–1885).[5][6] She was influenced by her…
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Gertrud Johanna Woker (16 December 1878 – 13 September 1968) was a Swiss suffragette, biochemist and toxicologist, and peace activist. She wrote for over twenty years itemizing the dangers of chemical substances on the human body. She campaigned against the use of poison gas in warfare. Early life Woker was born on 16 December 1878 to “Old Catholic” theology and history professor Philipp Woker.[1] She came from a well-educated family as besides her father being a professor, her maternal grandfather taught history.[2] Woker was keen to continue her studies but her father sent her to Erfurt to learn to cook.…
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Ursula Röthlisberger is a professor of computational chemistry at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She works on density functional theory using mixed quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical methods. She is an associate editor of the American Chemical Society Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Early life and education Röthlisberger was born in 1964 in Solothurn.[1] She studied physical chemistry at the University of Bern. She earned her diploma under the supervision of Ernst Schumacher in 1988.[2] She joined IBM Research – Zurich as a doctoral student with Wanda Andreoni.[2] She…
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C. Marcella Carollo worked as a professional astronomer for 25 years between 1994 and 2019. Her scientific career was ended by the ETH Zürich who, following accusations that she had bullied students, made her the first Professor to be dismissed at ETH Zurich[1] in the 165 years of its history. Carollo has maintained her innocence against these accusations,[2] publicly commenting on her case in terms that indicate “academic mobbing”. The dismissal was appealed unsuccessfully to the Swiss Federal Administrative Court.[3] The case has attracted considerable controversy. It has become a prime exhibit in the debate about due process and the…
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Min Li Marti (born 1 June 1974 in Bern) is a Swiss sociologist, historian, publisher and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP). Early life and career Min Li Marti was born in Bern as the daughter of her refugee Chinese mother and a Swiss father, and grew up in Olten. In 1995, she moved to Zürich, where she completed her studies in sociology, journalism, social and economic history at the University of Zurich in 2000. In 2004 she co-founded the production company “Das Kollektiv für audiovisuelle Werke GmbH”. From 2012 to 2015, Marti worked as a Senior…
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Gabriela Hug-Glanzmann (born 1979)[1] is a Swiss electrical engineer and an associate professor and Principal Investigator of the Power Systems Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich within the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering.[2] Hug studies the control and optimization of electrical power systems with a focus on sustainable energy. Early life and education In 1999, Hug pursued her graduate studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich.[3] She first obtained her Master’s in 2004 and then went on to complete her Ph.D. in 2008.[4] During her…
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Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (born: 20 July 1956) is a university professor in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany.[1] She is a former Pro-Vice-Rector at Bielefeld University and former Dean of the Faculty of Sociology at the University.[2] Early life and education Pfaff-Czarnecka was born in Warsaw, Poland to Janina (1932-2019) and Jerzy Czarnecki (1924-2007). The family moved to Switzerland in 1972. Between 1975 and 1983 Pfaff-Czarnecka studied social anthropology, law, communication studies, European anthropology and art history at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and also completed a doctoral degree there.[3] Career Pfaff-Czarnecka worked at the Institute of Social Anthropology…