Women Professors Forum

Congratulations to Suliana Manley for winning the ERC Synergy Grant alongside two colleagues for their collaborative work on the joint project MitoContact. The project investigates how mitochondria come into contact and communicate with other cell components. The ERC Synergy grant is bestowed upon projects that require the collaboration of multiple researchers to work on it j...

Congratulations to Eleni Chatzi for winning this year’s Dandelion Entrepreneurship Award in the category „Inspirer & Entrepreneurial Educator“. The Dandelion Entrepreneurship Award recognizes professors who demonstrate a strong commitment to fostering entrepreneurship. Eleni Chatzi’s research advances data-driven methods to observe, assess, and predict the behaviour of in...

Congratulations to Ursula Keller and Anastasia Ailamaki for being elected earlier this year to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Ursula Keller was elected for her contributions to ultrafast lasers and attosecond technologies and Anastasia Ailamaki for her contributions to database systems and their performance evaluation. Prospective members are nominated by current m...

Congratulations to Laura Heyderman for winning the Charpak-Ritz Prize for her innovations in nanomagnetic devices, her observations of emergent magnetic monopoles and phase transitions in artificial spin ice and the development of synchrotron x-ray magnetic tomography. The Charpak-Ritz Prize, a joint prize between the Société Française de Physique and the Swiss Physical Socie...