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

Mentoring Programmes and Career Advice

Mentoring Programmes

The importance of having a good mentor, in developing your scientific career, is highlighted as one of the keystones to success.

The Swiss National Science Foundation has created a number of measures to support the recruitment and retention of women scientists in Switzerland, including mentoring aspects of these programs. Currently the best link in Switzerland for mentoring contacts is the SVIN, Swiss Association of Women Engineers, website.

An excellent mentoring programme for Women Scientists and Engineers is linked to the UK Women's Engineering Society. It is very useful to look at the Mentoringset website because it explains the successful rationale behind networking and gives some excellent Case Studies of successful mentoring relationships between women scientists and engineers.

AcademiaNet is a German website for women academics and scientists. It might be possible to find a mentor through this resource.

Femdat.ch is a network (mostly in german), that wants to improve women's career opportunities. It provides information for women in academia and business and promotes women in science, business and society.


Career Advice

A Swiss portal for research and information in science is the Myscience website. It gives current information and news relating to all categories of science and engineering. Under individual fields you will find up-to-date adverts for current research positions. The website is in German, French and English.

A very useful resource for advice on PhD organization and completion is the ithinkwell website. This has been developed by Hugh Kearn and Maria Gardiner of the University of Flinders, Adelaide, Australia. The website has downloadable advice on strategies for completion.

The Conference Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale, CUSO, has a programme of careers advice, workshops, and events for people studying and working at Universities in the western part of Switzerland

The programmes aimed at fixing The Leaky Pipeline in Switzerland are also a helpful resource for existing Swiss provisions and activities.
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