Ursula Keller wins “Swiss Nobel” Marcel Benoist Prize
Farewell: the NCCR MUST ended 
MUST2022 Conference
New scientific highlights
FELs of Europe prize for Jeremy Rouxel
Ruth Signorell wins Doron prize
New FAST-Fellow Uwe Thumm at ETH
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
New scientific highlight
EU XFEL Young Scientist Award for Camila Bacellar,
Prizes for Giulia Mancini and Rebeca Gomez Castillo
Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to RESOLV Member Benjamin List
Hans Jakob Wörner invited to give the „New Horizons Solvay Lectures” 
Unusual keynote talk at an international scientific conference
NCCR MUST at Scientifica 20212015
The Seventh EU Gender Summit, Berlin, November 6 – 7, 2015:
Mastering Gender in Research Performance, Context and Outcomes
Berlin was chosen this year because the German government recently made a significant decision and approved legislation that requires major companies to allocate 30% of non-executive board positions to women.
The 2015 Gender Summit examined new research evidence that shows how institutions measure and assess researchers’ competences and performance, and presented new understandings of the consequences for women and men.
Day 1: concentrated on understanding how the structural basis of gender inequality in science is collectively endorsed within research cultures and entrenched within science institutions. Discussion focused on the relationship between research excellence and the circumstances that differentially affect women’s and men’s participation, engagement, and advancement in science. Evidence shows general bias that favors the success of men, which is clearly a concern for women but also for the quality of science practice.
Day 2: was devoted to showing the present situations with regard to mainstreaming gender into national and regional science systems.
The published program gives a list of the topics and parallel workshops. All presentations are available for download. The Gender Summit history and future summits can be found here.
The 2015 Gender Summit examined new research evidence that shows how institutions measure and assess researchers’ competences and performance, and presented new understandings of the consequences for women and men.
Day 1: concentrated on understanding how the structural basis of gender inequality in science is collectively endorsed within research cultures and entrenched within science institutions. Discussion focused on the relationship between research excellence and the circumstances that differentially affect women’s and men’s participation, engagement, and advancement in science. Evidence shows general bias that favors the success of men, which is clearly a concern for women but also for the quality of science practice.
Day 2: was devoted to showing the present situations with regard to mainstreaming gender into national and regional science systems.
The published program gives a list of the topics and parallel workshops. All presentations are available for download. The Gender Summit history and future summits can be found here.
International Women Scientist Meeting, Ruhr University Bochum,
16 - 17 June 2015
The meeting was organised by the International Female Faculty founded by Cluster of Excellence RESOLV of the Ruhr University Bochum in collaboration with the NCCR MUST Network. The meeting included invited speakers from: the US National Science Foundation, the National Academies of Science and National Academies of Engineering, USA, the CEO of a start-up company, DexLeChem, the Department of Chemical Engineering, Pittsburg University. Please find the detailed programme here.Professors Martina Havenith (Director RESOLV) and Ursula Keller (Director NCCR MUST) gave presentations. There was also a science café and guided lab tours at Ruhr University Bochum. The meeting was attended by 35 - 40 female and male participants.
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Elisabeth Bothschafter was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society, June 2015
Dr. Elisabeth Bothschafter receives the Otto Hahn Medal for her PhD thesis “Investigations of the non-linear interaction of light and matter in dielectric materials on the attosecond time-scale”. She has a postdoc position in the group of Dr. Urs Staub at the “Swiss Light Source” at the Paul-Scherrer-Institut (Villigen, Switzerland).
This year, the Max Planck Society awarded the Otto Hahn Medal 2014 to thirty young scientists who completed their doctoral thesis, including three from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics: Elisabeth Bothschafter, Andreas Reiserer, and Michael Krüger. Since 1978 the Max Planck Society has presented this honour annually to around 30 junior scientists for ground-breaking scientific achievements connected to their doctoral thesis. The award is intended to encourage highly talented people to decide for a career in fundamental research.
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Ursula Keller at the conference Women in Leadership Positions: high flying potentials, Zurich, 15 - 16 January 2015
Ursula Keller made a presentation "Why must Women in Leadership Positions Network?" at the Women in Leadership conference. She shared with the audience her experiences from establishing the ETH Women Professors Forum and the advantages that can be gained from establishing networks for women leaders. Her presentation outlined her analysis of the current situation for women on gender equality, and gave suggestions and advice for ways forward with the promotion of women. This conference included a contribution from Swiss Prof. Iris Bohnet, from Harvard University, USA, and presentations from leaders from a range of Swiss academic institutions.http://www.zfh.ch/dienstleistungen/kongress-fff/programm.html
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NCCR MUST Women Scientist Workshop, Engelberg, 12 January 2015
36 participants (up from 21 participants in 2014) attended the MUST women scientists workshop and the Annual Meeting in Phase II of MUST. There were presentations on scientific research and career experience from new Associate Members Professors Laura Heyderman, PSI/ETH Zurich, Silvie Roke, EPFL and Ruth Signorell, ETH Zurich. These presentations were followed by a question and answer session, which focused on the advantages, and the challenges, of pursuing a career in academic science.
You can download their presentations here:
Laura Heyderman, Mesoscopic Systems, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich/PSI
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Sylvie Roke, Laboratory for Fundamental Biophotonics, School of Engineering, EPFL
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Ruth Signorell, Aerosols and Nanoscience, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich
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