News

Ursula Keller wins “Swiss Nobel” Marcel Benoist Prize- for pioneering work in ultrafast lasers
MUST2022 Conference- a great success!
New scientific highlights- by MUST PIs Wörner, Chergui, and Richardson
FELs of Europe prize for Jeremy Rouxel- “Development or innovative use of advanced instrumentation in the field of FELs”
Ruth Signorell wins Doron prizefor pioneering contributions to the field of fundamental aerosol science
New FAST-Fellow Uwe Thumm at ETH- lectures on Topics in Femto- and Attosecond Science
International Day of Women and Girls in Science- SSPh asked female scientists about their experiences
New scientific highlight- by MUST PIs Milne, Standfuss and Schertler
EU XFEL Young Scientist Award for Camila Bacellar,beamline scientist and group leader of the Alvra endstation at SwissFEL
Prizes for Giulia Mancini and Rebeca Gomez CastilloICO/IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics & Ernst Haber 2021
Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to RESOLV Member Benjamin List- for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis
NCCR MUST at Scientifica 2021- Lightning, organic solar cells, and virtual molecules

MUST Management Office

Scientific Officer Dr. Jan van Beilen +41 79 296 20 12 (home office)
Outreach Officer Dr. Korinna Esfeld +41 31 631 89 36 (home office)
Finances Nadia Sigrist only email    

Postal Address 

ETH Zurich
NCCR MUST Office
D-PHYS - IQE/ULP - HPT H3
Auguste-Piccard-Hof 1
8093 Zurich
Switzerland

Building Information 
 
Former Outreach Officer for more than 10 years: Dr. Anna Garry  (Aug. 2010 till Oct. 2020)
     
Dr. Anna Garry, NCCR MUST outreach officer, has started a new position in the Department of Educational Development and Technology (LET) at ETH Zurich. After more than 10 years in the MUST office, this new job gives her the opportunity to work at ETH until her retirement, after the upcoming finish of the MUST program in 2022.

As the outreach officer in the management team of MUST, Anna’s main emphasis has been supporting efforts to advance women in STEM, including education and training. Highlights of this 10-year effort include the creation of the women professors forum, the women scientist network, and the biennial MUST/RESOLV Gender and Science conferences to better retain and support a diverse community. One goal was to reduce the leaky pipeline, and MUST initiated a fellowship program in physics to better support postdocs during pregnancy and early motherhood, and a new undergraduate peer mentoring program to better welcome female students in physics.

Based on her many interactions with women professors during these years, Anna authored “Inspirational Conversations with Women Professors” (published 2019) to highlight successful women professors in Switzerland. Other highlights in education and training activities include education competitions and outreach tools, conducting continuing professional development workshops for PhD's and postdocs, and realising the NCCR MUST book "A Journey Through Time in Powers of Ten”. Based on this book, we produced an exhibition for show at many scientific outreach events, schools, and universities. 

Anna’s contributions for all these highlights have been absolutely essential for their success. Anna was an enthusiastic, always helpful, and fantastic colleague to work with. The MUST team will miss her, and we wish her a great start and continued success in her new position.

Anna's successor in the MUST office is Dr. Korinna Esfeld, who started on October 15, 2020 in Bern. Korinna’s Ph.D. work is in plant science biology. She worked as an Oberassistentin (70%) in the group of Cris Kuhlemeier at the Institute of Plant Sciences of the University of Bern until July 2020. Korinna completed a CAS in Research Management and started in December 2018 as an academic manager in the study committee of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Bern (20%). In addition, she implemented measures in the department of Biology (10%) after an evaluation of the biology teaching program. 

A warm welcome to Korinna in the MUST management team and we look forward to working with her!
 
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