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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Emma Jung (born Emma Marie Rauschenbach, 30 March 1882 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss Jungian analyst and author. She married Carl Jung, financing and helping him to become the prominent psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology, and together they had five children. She was his “intellectual editor” to the end of her life.[1] After her death, Jung is said to have described her as “a Queen”. Early life Emma Rauschenbach was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Johannes Rauschenbach, the then owner of IWC Schaffhausen.[2] At the time of her marriage she was the second-richest heiress in Switzerland.[3]…
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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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Germaine Guex (April 17, 1904, in Arcachon, France – November 20, 1984, in Lausanne, Switzerland)[1] was a Swiss psychologist.[2][3][4] She was particularly known for her work on abandonment syndrome in psychoanalysis. Born in Arcachon, France, Guex achieved the French baccalauréat and studied at the Rousseau Institute in Geneva. In the 1930s, Guex established a pioneering medical-pedagogical service in Monthey, dedicated to the psychoanalytical treatment of children. Her monograph La névrose d’abandon (1950; English: Abandonment neurosis), later re-published in 1973 under the title Le Syndrome d’abandon, made her reputation international.[5] In it, she describes “abandonment neurosis” as a type of neurosis…
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Stefanie Martin-Kilcher (born 5 July 1945) is a Swiss archaeologist. She is Professor Emerita of Roman Provincial Archaeology at the University of Bern.[1] Biography Martin-Kilcher studied prehistory, early history, classical archaeology, and folk lore at the University of Basel. She received her doctorate from basel in 1973. Her thesis, on the Roman cemetery at Courroux was published as a 1976 monograph.[2] Between 1978 and 1991 she was the Editor of Archaeology of Switzerland magazine.[3] She completed her habilitation at the University of Bern in January 1991, becoming Professor of Roman Provincial Archaeology.[3] A Festschrift was published in her honor in…
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Susanne Bickel (born 1960, in Rome) is a Swiss Egyptologist. She studied Egyptology in Geneva and then worked at the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo and the Swiss Institute of Egyptian Antiquity. She has worked as an archaeologist on multiple sites in Middle and Upper Egypt. Since 2000 she has been a lecturer at the University of Freiburg and since 2006, professor of Egyptology at the University of Basel where she is an expert on Ancient Egyptian deities and demons.[1] Susanne Bickel’s research focuses on religion and Egyptian archaeology,[2] particularly the documentation of Egyptian temples. Bickel is director…
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Anna Heer (1863–1918) was a Swiss physician. She played a major role in the founding of Switzerland’s first professional nursing school.[1] She was one the founders of the first women’s hospital in Zurich.[2]: 746 In 1897 she became the chief physician at the hospital.[3] She was the head of the SUPFS since 1901 as well as the head of pflegerinnenschule of Zurich.[4]: 146 She died on 9 December 1918 in Zurich from sepsis.[5] References
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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…
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Sophie Piccard (1904–1990) was a Russian-Swiss mathematician who became the first female full professor (professor ordinarius) in Switzerland.[1][2] Her research concerned set theory, group theory, linear algebra, and the history of mathematics.[1] Early life and education Piccard was born on September 27, 1904, in Saint Petersburg, with a French Huguenot mother and a Swiss father. She earned a diploma in Smolensk in 1925, where her father, Eugène-Ferdinand Piccard, was a university professor and her mother a language teacher at the lycée. Soon afterwards she moved to Switzerland with her parents, escaping the unrest in Russia that her mother, Eulalie Piccard,…