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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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, and then she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Brain Research at the University of Zurich. Thenafter she postgraduatedin Experimental Medicine and Biology at the University of Zurich. Wunderli subsequently did her Ph.D. thesis at the Department of Microbiology at the Biozentrum in Basel, and as research…
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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 Jenny-Castle, in Thalwil, Switzerland. In 1912 she married the theologian Adolf Keller and was mother of five children. Tina Keller completed many years of analysis with C.G.Jung and Toni Wolff (1915–1928), who discovered movement as active imagination. She completed medical school in 1931, and practiced as a psychiatrist and Jungian-oriented…
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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…
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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 the Balseiro Institute in Argentina, where she earned a licenciate in 1960,[3] and became a doctoral student of John C. Wheatley.[1][4] Her research with him concerned the heat capacity of liquid Helium-3.[5] After earning her doctorate in 1967,[3] she worked for eight years in the Department of Physics and Institute…
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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 Gifted Child[2] caused a sensation and became an international bestseller upon the English publication in 1981.[3] Her views on the consequences of child abuse became highly influential.[4] In her books she departed from psychoanalysis, charging it with being similar to the poisonous pedagogies.[5] Life Miller was born in Piotrków Trybunalski,…
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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 Jaag Gewässerschutzpreis (Otto Jaag’s water protection prize) for an outstanding thesis on water protection/hydrologi from ETH Zurich for the PhD thesis Methodologies for the evaluation of water use related impacts on biodiversity within Life Cycle Assessment.[1][2] In 2019 she received the Laudise medal from the International Society for Industrial Ecology, for outstanding efforts in industrial ecology by a…