Women of MARVEL
The list is not exhaustive and more interviews will be added in the weeks to come.
Group Leaders
- Ana Akrap (UniFR) is Professor and head of the Light Fermion Spectroscopy group and since May 2020 a new Agility Plus group leader in the Design and Discovery project 6 - Topological Materials — her project is described here.
- Clémence Corminboeuf (EPFL) is Professor and head of the Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design and a member of MARVEL's Executive Committee.
- Emiliana Fabbri (PSI) is a senior researcher in the Electrocatalysis and Interfaces group and since May 2020 a new Agility Plus group leader in the Design and Discovery project 4 - Nanoporous Materials — her project is described here and a video featuring her in the #NCCRWomen campaign can be watched here.
- Marta Gibert (UZH) is SNSF Professor in the field of experimental condensed matter at the Physics Institute of UZH and since May 2020 a new Agility Plus group leader in the Design and Discovery project 5 - Correlated Oxides — her project is described here.
- Marisa Medarde (PSI) is head of the Physical Properties of Materials group at PSI and group leader in the Design and Discovery project 5 - Correlated Oxides at MARVEL.
- Sereina Riniker (ETHZ) is Assistant Professor of Computational Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETHZ and since May 2020 a new Agility Plus group leader in the Design and Discovery project 1 - Organic Crystals — her project is described here.
- Nicola Spaldin (ETHZ) is Professor and head of the Materials Theory Laboratory at ETHZ and project leader in MARVEL Design and Discovery project 5 - Correlated Oxides.
- Claire Villevieille was group leader in MARVEL Incubator Project 1 - Solid-State Ionics until February 2019.
Postdocs and scientists
- Migle Grauzinyte (University of Basel) is a postdoc in the group of Stefan Goedecker, group leader in Design & Discovery Project 1.
- Snehal Kumbhar (EPFL) is a systems specialist for MARVEL's Open Science platform, which is lead by Giovanni Pizzi in THEOS.
- Giuliana Materzanini (EPFL) is a postdoc in the group of Nicola Marzari, director of NCCR MARVEL.
- Tiziana Musso (University of Zurich) is a postdoc in the group of Jürg Hutter, group leader in Design & Discovery Project 4 - Nanoporous Materials.
- Elsa Passaro (EPFL) is a postdoc in the group of Berend Smit, project leader of Design & Discovery Project 4 - Nanoporous Materials.
- Chiara Ricca (University of Bern) is a postdoc in the group of Ulrich Aschauer, group leader in Design & Discovery Project 5 - Correlated Oxides.
- Olga Syzgantseva (EPFL) is a postdoc in the group of Berend Smit, project leader of Design & Discovery Project 4 - Nanoporous Materials.
PhD students
(please see below for interviews of PhD students who started out as INSPIRE Potentials fellows)
- Sophie Beck (ETHZ) is in the group of Claude Ederer, group leader in Design & Discovery Project 5 - Correlated Oxides.
- Fatmah Ebrahim (EPFL) is in the group of Berend Smit, project leader of Design & Discovery Project 4 - Nanoporous Materials.
- Sonali Parbhoo (University of Basel) is in the group of Volker Roth, computational group leader in Incubator Project 2 - Machine Learning.
- Rebecca Scatena (University of Bern) is in the group of Piero Macchi, experimental group leader in Design and Discovery Project 4 - Nanoporous Materials.
INSPIRE Potentials
The INSPIRE Potentials Master's Fellowships were introduced in 2016 to broaden the opportunities for women in science. Up to now, 26 students have been granted six-month fellowships for a Master's project in different MARVEL groups. A list of these fellows and their stories can be found here.
Management Team
- Lidia Favre-Quattropani is MARVEL's scientific manager.
- Carey Sargent coordinates MARVEL's news and helps with external communications.
- Pascale Van Landuyt is MARVEL's industrial liaison and tech transfer officer.
- Ursula Vaucher is MARVEL's financial officer.