Inaugural Lectures

Monday, 16. September
5.00 pm

Prof. Dr. Livia Piermattei
Department of Geography
Remote Sensing of Environmental Changes

Prof. Dr. Marcelle Soares dos Santos
Department of Physics
Cosmology with Cosmic Surveys and Gravitational Waves

Monday, 14. October
5.00 pm

Prof. Dr. Delia Coculescu
Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning
Navigating Complexity: The Mathematics of Risk Modeling, from Financial Crises to Climate Change

Prof. Dr. Melika Payvand
Institute of Neuroinformatics
Analog Substrates for Efficient AI Hardware: Inspired by the Structure of Brain Circuits

Prof. Dr. Franka Voigt
Department of Molecular Life Sciences
Deciphering RNA localization codes via live single-molecule imaging in organoids

Prof. Dr. Tomáš Bzdušek
Department of Physics
Bending the Flatland: Designing classical and quantum matter with non-Euclidean geometry

Monday, February 26

PD Dr. Janine Bolliger

Department of Geography
Bridging nature and cities: an urban ecology perspective

Saturday, March 2

Prof. Dr. Harald Ita, Ausserordentlicher Professor ad personam

Institute for Computational Science
Precise Predictions for Collisions with Quantum Field Theory

Saturday, March 16

Prof. Dr. Lea Caminada, SNSF-Förderprofessorin

Department of Physics
Exploring the Energy Frontier at the Larbe Hadron Collider

Monday, April 8

Prof. Dr. Valerio Mante, Ausserordentlicher Professor

Institute of Neuroinformatics
Behavioral and neural mechanisms of cognition

Monday, April 22

Prof. Dr. Klaus Martin Widmayer, SNSF-Förderprofessor

Monday, May 6

Prof. Dr. Susanne Kassube, DP, SNF-Prima-Professorin

Department of Biochemistry
Metalloproteins and DNA repair

Monday, September 18

Prof. Dr. Klaus Martin Widmayer, SNSF-Förderprofessor

Department of Mathematics

Monday, October 2

Prof. Dr. Sara Simonini, SNF-Prima Förderprofessorin

Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
Epigenetic regulation of cell identity and proliferation during plant embryogenesis

Saturday, November 4

Prof. Dr. Alexandre Bovet, Assistenzprofessor

Institut für Mathematik
Network science: understanding our complex world through its connectedness

Monday, December 11 

Prof. Dr. Guglielmo Mazzola, SNSF-Förderprofessor

Institute for Computational Science

Monday, 18. Dezember

Prof. Dr. Claire Burrin, SNF-Prima Förderprofessorin

Department of Mathematics
Spectral techniques in dynamics and number theory

Monday, 18. Dezember

Prof. Dr. Pablo Rivera Fuentes, Ausserordentlicher Professor

Department of Chemistry

Monday, March 20

Prof. Dr. Julian Adamek, SNSF-Förderprofessor

Institute for Computational Science

Monday, April 3

Prof. Dr. Damien Farine, SNSF-Förderprofessor

Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental

The building blocks of animal societies

Saturday, April 22

Prof. Dr. Aiman S. Saab, SNSF-Förderprofessor, DP MeF

Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Monday, April 24

Prof. Dr. Tobias Züst, SNSF-Förderprofessor

Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany

An arms race in the vegetable patch: diversity and novelty in plant defense

Monday, April 24

Prof. Dr. Joachim Gerhard Stadel, Titularprofessor

Institute for Computational Science

Monday, May 15

PD Dr. Felix Morsdorf

Department of Geography

Monday, May 22

Prof. Dr. Joëlle Sasse Schläpfer, SNSF-Prima-Förderprofessorin

Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

Monday, May 22

Prof. Dr. Tina Perica, Assistenzprofessorin, DP MeF

Department of Biochemistry

Saturday, May 27

Prof. Dr. Lea Caminada, SNSF-Förderprofessorin

Department of Physics

Monday,  September 19

PD. Dr. Philipp Öffner

Department of Mathematics

Monday, October 17

Prof. Dr. Kathelijne Koops, SNSF-Förderprofessorin

Department of Anthropology

Ape origins of human technology

Monday, October 17

PD. Dr. Mark Fischer

Department of Physics

Monday, October 24

Prof. Dr. Alexandria Liang, Assistenzprofessorin

Department of Chemistry

Enzyme engineering for metalloenzymes and incorporation of non-standard amino acids

Monday, November 7

Prof. Dr. Peter Stoffer, SNSF-Förderprofessor

Department of Physics

Monday, February 21

Prof. Dr. Vikram Govind Panse, Ausserordentlicher Professor ad personam/DP mit MeF

Institute of Medical Microbiology

Monday, April 4

Prof. Dr. Marc Janoschek, Ausserordentlicher Professor ad personam

Department of Physics

Glimpses into Quantum Matter on the Atomic Scale

Monday, April 11

Prof. Dr. Cristina Botta, SNF-Prima Förderungsprofessorin

Department of Physics

Thursday, April 28

Prof. Dr. Catalina Pimiento Hernandez, SNF-Prima Förderungsprofessorin

Paleontological Institute and Museum

The ecological consequences of extinctions

Monday, May 9

Prof. Dr. Jan Dirk Wegner, Ausserordentlicher Professor

Institute for Computational Science

Monday, September 27

Prof. Dr. Hanna Hilbrandt, Assistenzprofessorin
Department of Geography
The city at the margins: Tracing the everyday politics of urban change

Monday, October 25

Prof. Dr. Christoph Schneider, UZH-Förderungsprofessor/DP mit MeF
Institute of Physiology
Tissue – immune cross talk: it’s matter of taste

Monday, November 1

PD Dr. Daniel Viviroli
Department of Geography

Monday, November 8

PD Dr. Birger Dittrich
Department of Chemistry
Disordered crystal structures, polymorphism and energy

Monday, November 8

PD Dr. Karin Schwiter
Department of Geography

Monday, November 22

Prof. Dr. Nina Hartrampf, Assistenzprofessorin
Department of Chemistry
Flow-Based Peptide and Protein Synthesis

Montag, 8. März

Prof. Dr. Meredith Christine Schuman, Assistenzprofessorin

Department of Geography

Montag, 3. Mai

Prof. Dr. Aurel Schneider, SNF-Förderungsprofessor

Institute for Computational Science

What the Heck is Dark Matter? New insights from Astrophysics and Cosmology

Montag, 3. Mai

Prof. Dr. Gerald Schwank, Ausserordentlicher Professor/DP mit MeF

Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology 

Montag, 10. Mai

Prof. Dr. Anna-Liisa Laine, Ordentliche Professorin

IDepartment of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies

Parasite Biodiversity – Causes and consequences

Montag, 17. Mai

Prof. Dr. Michael Krauthammer, Ordentlicher Professor/DP mit MeF

Department of Quantitative Biomedicine 

Montag, 31. Mai

PD Dr. Marco Pütz

Department of Geography

Monday, September 28

Prof. Dr. Adrian V. Jaeggi, SNF-Förderungsprofessor/DP mit MeF
Institute of Evolutionary Medicine
Alte Körper, neue Welten: Vom Jagen und Sammeln zur Zivilisationskrankheit

Monday, October 5 

Prof. Dr. Marcel van der Heijden, Ausserordentlicher Professor
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
Pesticides, Climate Change and Microbiome Engineering: Agricultural Challenges for a Sustainable Future

Monday, October 5 

6.15 pm

Saturday, October 10

Prof. Dr. Tommaso Patriarchi, Assistenzprofessor/DP mit MeF
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Solving Equation: Determinism and Randomness

Monday, November 2

PD Dr. Daniel Viviroli
Department of Geography
Why mountains matter in hydrology and water resources

Monday, November 2

7.30 pm

Saturday, November 28

10 am

Saturday, December 5 

11.15 am

Monday, February 17

5 pm

Prof. Dr. Andreas Crivellin, SNF-Förderungsprofessor
Department of Physics
Discovering New Physics with Flavour

Monday,  March 9

Prof. Dr. Xavier Ros-Oton, UZH-Förderungsprofessor
Institute of Mathematics 
PDEs, the equations that rule the world

Monday, March 16

Prof. Dr. Marcel van der Heijden, Ausserordentlicher Professor
Plant and Microbial Biology
Pesticides, Climate Change and Microbiome Engineering: Agricultural Challenges for a Sustainable Future

Monday, March 16

6.15 pm

Prof. Dr. Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Ausserordentliche Professorin
Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
Die grüne Aktis

Monday, March 23

PD Dr. Daniel Viviroli
Geographische Institut
Why mountains matter in hydrology and water resources

Monday, March 30

6.15 pm

Prof. Dr. Michael Krauthammer, Ordentlicher Professor/DP mit MeF
Department of Quantiative Biomedicine
Wie Daten und künstliche Intelligenz die Medizin von morgen prägen

Monday, April 6

5 pm

Prof. Dr. Anna-Liisa Laine, Ordentliche Professorin
Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
What keeps parasites in check in nature

Monday, April 6

7.30 pm

Prof. Dr. Richard Chahwan, Assistenzprofessor/DP mit MeF
Institute of Experimental Immunology
Gene editing in immunity and cancer

Monday, April 27

6.15 pm

PD Dr. Karin Schwiter
Department of Geography
Arbeiten im 21. Jahrhundert: Die neue Welt der transnational und digital vermittelten Arbeitsverhältnisse

Montag, May 4

7.30 pm

Prof. Dr. Alexander Gorodnik, Ordentlicher Professor
Institute of Mathematics 
Solving Equation: Determinism and Randomness

Monday, September 23

Prof. Dr. Alexey Soluyanov, SNF-Förderungsprofessor
Department of Physics
Einstein and Schroedinger meet Dirac and Weyl in crystalline materials

Saturday, October 5

Prof. Dr. Fabian Natterer, SNF-Förderungsprofessor
Department of Physics
Ein Atom, zwei Atome, drei Atome: Wie wir künstliche Materie schrittweise aufbauen und ihre Eigenschaften messen

Monday, October 7

Prof. Dr. Corinna Ulcigrai, Ordentliche Professorin
Institute of Mathematics 
Billiards, butterflies and mathematical (slow) chaos

Monday, October 14

Prof. Dr. Francisco Verdeguer, Assistenzprofessor/DP mit VET
Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
Are we energetically balanced? On how is obesity a dysregulated metabolism

Monday, October 28

5 pm

Prof. Dr. Artur Avila, Ordentlicher Professor
Institute of Mathematics 
Dynamical Systems

Monday, November 18

5 pm

Prof. Dr. Kathrin Fenner, Ausserordentliche Professorin
Department of Chemistry
P oder nicht P? Umweltchemische Einblicke in die Persistenz von Schadstoffen

Monday, February 18 

PD Dr. Michael Hautmann
Paleontological Institute and Museum
Biodiversität und Aussterben in der Erdgeschichte

Monday, February 25

Prof. Dr. Verena Schünemann, Assistenzprofessorin/DP mit MeF
Institute of Evolutionary Medicine
Alte DNA und Krankheiten: Was wir von alten Pathogenen lernen können

Monday, March 11

Prof. Dr. Maria Santos, Assistenzprofessorin
Department of Geography  
Biodiversity and Social-ecological co-evolution in the context of global change

Monday, March 18

PD Dr.Célia Baroux
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
Dynamics of chromatin organization: a blueprint for cellular plasticity?

Monday, March 25

5.00 pm

Prof. Dr. Francisco Verdeguer, Assistenzprofessor/DP mit VET
Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
Are we energetically balanced? On how is obesity a dysregulated metabolism

Saturday, October 13

Prof. Dr. Marta Gibert, SNF-Förderungsprofessorin
Department of Physics

Playing at Oxide Interfaces

Tuesday, October 16

PD. Dr. Tatiana Latychevskaia
Department of Physics

Modem imaging without lenses: portraits of individual molecules

Prof. Dr. Sven Gohla, Titularprofessor
Department of Chemistry

Cosmetics and Technology

Prof. Dr. Alexander Damm-Reiser, Assistenzprofessor
Department of Geography

Water scarcity: A remote sensing perspective on causes and solutions

Monday, November 5

PD Dr. Michael Hautmann
Paleontological Institute and Museum

Biodiversität und Aussterben in der Erdgeschichte

Prof. Dr. Kathrin Fenner, Ausserordentliche Professorin
Department of Chemistry

Digging in the dark: Linking microbes to micropollutant degradation

Monday, February 19

5 pm

Prof. Dr. Jan Unkelbach, Assistenzprofessor/DP mit MeF 
Department of Radiation Oncology

Technologie der modernen Strahlentherapie

Monday, February 26

5 pm

Prof. Dr. Giacomo Indiveri, Ausserordentlicher Professor/DP ETH
Institute of Neuroinformatics

Neuromorphic electronic circuits for Building autonomous cognitive systems

PD Dr. Nicolas Greiner
Department of Physics

Collider Physics and the Quest for Precision

Prof. Dr. Stefan Lüpold, SNF-Förderungsprofessor
Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies

Krieg der Spermien: Fortpflanzungsbiologie aus evolutionärer Sicht

Montag, March 26

Prof. Dr. Shiva Tyagrajan, Assistenzprofessor/DP mit MeF
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Dynamic GABAergic inhibition shapes brain function

Montag, April 23

Prof. Dr. Sandra Luber, SNF-Förderungsprofessorin
Department of Chemistry

Unraveling solar light-driven water splitting through advanced ab initio simulations

Montag, April 23

PD Dr. Marcella Iannuzzi
Department of Chemistry

Nanostructures at interfaces: how to understand the wavy flatland with computers

Montag, May 7

Prof. Dr. Michal Juricek, SNF-Förderungsprofessor
Department of Chemistry

When molecules with a spin do the twist

Samstag, June 2

PD Dr. Davide Bleiner
Department of Chemistry

Instrumental Chemical Analysis: Users or Developers?

Monday, September 18

Prof. Dr. Robert Feldmann, SNF-Förderungsprofessor

Institute for Computational Science
The Evolution of Massive Galaxies as seen through Cosmological Simulations

Monday, September 18

Prof. Dr. Johan Chang, SNF-Förderungsprofessor 
Department of Physics
From exotic superconductivity to insulating quantum matter

Monday, October 23

PD Dr. Pascal Goeke
Institute of Mathematics 
Philanthropie im Anthropozän. Entscheiden und Handeln gemeinnütziger Stiftungen im 21. Jahrhundert

Prof. Dr. Tuncay Baubec SNF-Förderungsprofessor/DP mit VET
Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
Epigenetics – Are we more than the sum of our genes?

Monday, November  13

Prof. Dr. Wendy Wei-Lynn Wong,  Assistenzprofessorin/DP mit MeF

Institute of Experimental Immunology
Cell death proteins, orchestrators of inflammation and disease

Saturday, November 25

Prof. Dr. Ravit Helled, Ausserordentliche Professorin 

Institute for Computational Science
The mysteries of giant planets

Monday,
February 20

Prof. Dr. Benjamin Hale, Förderungsprofessor/DP mit MeF
Institute of Medical Virology

Rewiring of Host Cells by Influenza Viruses

Monday, 
February 20

Prof. Dr. Titus Neupert, Assistenzprofessor 
Department of Physics

A cosmos of emergent particles in crystalline solids

Prof. Dr. Marcello Porta, Assistenzprofessor
Department of Mathematics

Universality in flatlands

PD Dr. Olaf Steinkamp 
Department of Physics

The Eyes of the Particle Physicist

Prof. Dr. Holger Dressel, Assistenzprofessor/DP mit MeF
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute

Arbeits- und Umweltmedizin – zwischen Individuum und Gesellschaft

Prof. Dr. Michael Krützen, Ausserordentlicher Professor
Department of Anthropology

Adaption durch genomische und kulturelle Evolution

PD Dr. Anna Kristina Lindholm
Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies

Harnessing Selfish Genes

PD Dr. Laure Weisskopf
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

Der Duft von Bakterien und seine Wirkung auf Pflanzen und Pilze

Brain development: putting the brakes on

Monday, October 10

18.15 Uhr 

Prof. Dr. Jaiyul Yoo, SNF-Förderungsprofessor 

Institute for Computational Science 

General Relativistic Effects in Cosmology 

Monday, November 21

17.00 Uhr 

Prof. Dr. Joop Vermeer, SNF-Förderungsprofessor

Plant and Microbial Biology

Talking with the neighbours: Understanding spatial accommodation
during plant development.

Monday, November 28

17.00 Uhr

Department of Chemistry

Radiochemistry – from elements to imaging

Monday, November 28

18.15 Uhr 

Prof. Dr. Massimo Lopes, Ausserordentlicher Professor/DP mit MeF 

Institute of Molecular Cancer Research 

Spying on the enemy: visualizing DNA replication stress in cancer onset and therapy

Monday, December 12

19.30 Uhr 

Prof. Dr. Csaba Földy, Förderungsprofessor/DP mit MeF 

Brain Research Institute 

Towards the Molecular Logic of Brain Circuits 

Monday, December 19 

17.00 Uhr 

Prof. Dr. Michael Baudis, Ausserordentlicher Professor

Institute of Molecular Life Sciences

Cancer Genome Data Analysis: Why, Which, When, Whereto?

Monday, 22 February 

5:00pm 

Prof. Dr. Jordi Bascompte 

Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies 

Structure and robustness in ecological systems 

Monday, 29 February 

5:00pm 

PD Dr. Pavel Mnev 

Institute of Mathematics 

BV pushforwards and exact discretizations in topological field theory 

Monday, 7 March 

6:15pm 

Prof. Dr. David Tilley 

Department of Chemistry 

Artificial Photosynthesis: Fuels from Sunlight 

Monday, 7 March 

7:30pm 

Prof. Dr. Lucio Mayer 

Institute for Computational Science 

Unveiling the origin and lives of supermassive black holes; beacons of galaxy formation and messengers of the nature of gravity 

Monday, 21 March 

7:30pm 

Prof. Dr. Devis Tuia 

Department of Geography 

Interpreting images with more than images 

Monday, 4 April 

5:00pm 

Prof. Dr. Jean-Pascal Pfister 

Department of Neuroinformatics 

How does the brain compute? 

Monday, 9 May 

7:30pm 

Prof. Dr. Nicole Joller 

Institute of Experimental Immunology 

"Wie das Immunsystem sich selbst reguliert"