Melanie Greter is a Swiss neuroimmunologist and a Swiss National Science Foundation Professor in the Institute of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich. Greter explores the ontogeny and function of microglia and border-associated macrophages of the central nervous system to understand how they maintain homeostasis and contribute to brain-related…
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Franziska B. Grieder
Franziska B. Grieder is a Swiss-American veterinary scientist. She is the director of the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs at the National Institutes of Health. Grieder was a faculty member and researcher at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Early life and education Born in Dayton, Ohio, Grieder…
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Jocelyne Bloch
Jocelyne Bloch (born 1971) is a Swiss neuroscientist and a neurosurgeon at Lausanne University Hospital and at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).[2][3] Life Bloch graduated in the Faculty of Medicine of Lausanne University in December 1994 and she obtained her neurosurgical degree in 2002.[4] Her area of expertise is…
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Lotte Loewe
Lotte Luise Friederike Loewe (7 November 1900–unknown) was a German chemist known for her published research in organic chemistry.[1][2] Loewe was born in Breslau (then part of Germany and now called Wroclaw) to Helene (Druey) Loewe.[3] She received her doctorate in chemistry from the University of Breslau (now the University…
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Eva Bayer-Fluckiger
Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (born 25 June 1951) is a Hungarian and Swiss mathematician. She is an Emmy Noether Professor Emeritus at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She has worked on several topics in topology, algebra and number theory, e.g. on the theory of knots, on lattices, on quadratic forms and on…
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Meike Maria Elisabeth Akveld
Meike Maria Elisabeth Akveld is a Swiss mathematician and textbook author, whose professional interests include knot theory, symplectic geometry, and mathematics education. She is a tenured senior scientist and lecturer in the mathematics and teacher education group in the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zurich.[1][2][3] She is also the organizer of the Mathematical Kangaroo competitions in Switzerland,[4] and president…
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Aude Billard
Aude Billard Aude G. Billard (born c. August 6, 1971)[1] is a Swiss physicist in the fields of machine learning and human-robot interactions.[2] As a full professor at the School of Engineering at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Billard’s research focuses on applying machine learning to support robot learning through human guidance. Billard’s work…
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Regula Rytz
Regula Rytz (born 2 March 1962) is a Swiss historian and politician of the Green Party of Switzerland. She was a member of the National Council from 2011 to 2022.[2] From 2012 to 2016, she was the co-president of the Green Party of Switzerland. She was the party president from…
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Grete Kellenberger-Gujer
Grete Kellenberger-Gujer (1919–2011) was a Swiss molecular biologist known for her discoveries on genetic recombination and restriction modification system of DNA. She was a pioneer in the genetic analysis of bacteriophages and contributed to the early development of molecular biology.[1][2] Biography After earning her matura in classics at the Töchterschule…
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Nathalie Bosson
Nathalie Bosson is a Swiss Egyptologist, Coptologist, and archaeologist, born in 1963. A teacher at the University of Geneva and at the École du Louvre and the Catholic University of Paris, she is generally regarded as one of the most prominent living experts in the study of the Coptic language. Biography She was born in 1963. After completing her gymnasium studies…