Positions

2/2017 Executive Director PHRT, Strategic Focus Area (SFA) of the ETH Domain “Personalized Health and Related Technologies – PHRT” ETH Zurich
01/2007–12/2018 Managing Director SystemsX.ch, the Swiss Initiative in Systems Biology ETH Zurich
11/2000–12/2006 Head of Research Management, Vice-Rectorate for Research University of Basel
1997–1999 Visiting Lecturer, Univ. Courses Svalbard Longyearbyen
1996–2010 (part time) Founder and Head PERMOS (Permafrost Monitoring Switzerland) ETH Zurich, Uni Zurich
1995–10/2000 Senior Researcher (mountain permafrost, geophysics) VAW, Glaciology ETH Zurich

Education

2001–2002 “Higher education politics and research manage ment”, Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) EPFL, Uni Lausanne, Uni Bern
1989–1993 PhD thesis “Geophysical investigations in permafrost in the Upper Engadin”, Diss-No 10107, Dr. sc. nat. ETH ETH Zurich
1982–1988 Study of Geophysics and Glaciology ETH Zurich

Committees

since 2023 Member of the Board, Association Swiss Network of Dementia Research Dementia Research
since 2022 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, University Research Priority Program (URPP) “ITINERARE, innovation therapies in rare disease” Rare Diseases
since 2010 Member of the Board of Trustees, Synapsis Foundation; President
since 06/2026 Dementia Research
since 1997 Member of the Commission Swiss monitoring networks of the cryosphere Swiss Academy of Sciences (SAS)
1997–2009 National Representative (Switzerland), IPA Council Internat. Permafrost Association
1997–2005 Member of the Geophysical Commission Swiss Academy of Sciences (SAS)
1997–2008 Board Member Swiss Geomorphological Society, President
1999-2001 Swiss Academy of Sciences (SAS)