The following nine researchers have been elected as new members of the SNSF Research Council:
Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences division
- Olivier Schneider, EPFL, for particle physics
- Aude Billard, EPFL, for engineering sciences
- Joachim Buhmann, ETH Zurich, for data science
- Karl Gademann, University of Zurich, for organic chemistry
The new research councillors of the Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences division will take up office on 1 September 2017. They replace the following outgoing members: Kai Johnsson (organic chemistry), Michal Borkovec (environmental sciences), Bradley Nelson (information technology) and Antonio Ereditato (particle physics).
Programmes division
- Anastasia Ailamaki, EPFL, for computer science
- Jan Carmeliet, ETH Zurich, for engineering sciences
- Andreas Mayer, University of Lausanne, for molecular life sciences
- Nicolas Rodondi, University of Bern, for clinical research
- Uschi Backes-Gellner, University of Zurich, for political sciences and economics
The research councillors newly elected to the Programmes division will start in their new role on 1 January 2017, together with Max Bergman, whom the Executive Committee of the Foundation Council had elected to the Research Council in September 2016. They replace the outgoing members: Kay Axhausen (urbanistics, spatial planning), Christoph Dehio (molecular biology), Dominique Foray (economics), Jürg Steiger (clinical medicine) and Frédéric Varone (political sciences).
National Research Council of the SNSF