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…
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Clémence Corminboeuf
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…
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Silvia Arber
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…
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Alessandra Iozzi
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…
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Heidi Wunderli-Allenspach
Heidi Wunderli-Allenspach (born 1 January 1947) is a Swiss biologist and was the first female director of ETH Zürich.[1] Life and work Wunderli-Allenspach was born in 1947 in Niederuzwil in the Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. She graduated with the master’s degree in biology at ETH Zurich in 1970,…
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Tina Keller-Jenny
Tina Keller-Jenny (born June 17, 1887, in Schwanden, Switzerland, died October 25, 1985, in Geneva) was a Swiss physician and Jungian psychotherapist who witnessed firsthand the development of analytical psychology during its formative years.[1] Biography Tina Keller was the daughter of Swiss industrialist Conrad Jenny, and grew up at the…
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Isabelle Mansuy
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…
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Ana Celia Mota
Ana Celia Mota (born 1935) is a retired Argentine-American condensed matter physicist specializing in phenomena at ultracold temperatures, including superfluids and superconductors. She is a professor emerita at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.[1] Education and careerMota was born in 1935 in Argentina, and is a US citizen.[2] She studied physics at…
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Alice Miller
Alice Miller (born Alicja Englard[1][verification needed]; 12 January 1923 – 14 April 2010) was a Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst and philosopher of Jewish origin, who is noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages. She was also a noted public intellectual. Her book The Drama of the…
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Francesca Verones
Francesca Verones (born 30 May 1984 in Bern, Switzerland) is a Swiss-Italian environmental engineer and Professor at the Industrial ecology programme at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her areas of research are life cycle analysis, life cycle impact assessment and biodiversity analysis, and she is especially interested in aquatic and marine areas.[1] Rewards In 2013 Verones was granted the Otto…