Alumni Profiles

The Branco Weiss Fellowship Alumni Network comprises all fellows who have completed the entire five years of the Fellowship.


2018	Tevong	You	King’s College London, United Kingdom, and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland	Theoretical particle physics
2018	Thomas	Van Boeckel	ETH Zurich, Switzerland	Global Health and Antimicrobial Resistance
2018	Michael	Mühlebach	Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany	Computer Science, Mathematics
2018	Nikolay	Golubev	University of Arizona, Tucson, USA	Theoretical quantum physics and chemistry
2018	Franziska	Glassmeier	TU Delft, Netherlands	Atmospheric Sciences
2014	Kaat	Alaerts	University of Leuven, Belgium, and ETH Zurich, Switzerland	Neuro-Imaging, Social Neuroscience, Autism
2013	Sushant	Anand	University of Illinois at Chicago, USA	Engineering, Sustainable Energy
2011	Daniela	Andres	UNSAM, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Biomedical Engineering
2012	Nita	Bharti	Penn State University, USA	Biology, Anthropology, Global Health
2010	Reinette (Oonsie)	Biggs	Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden	Environmental Science
2011	Josiane	Broussard	Colorado State University, USA	Biomedical Sciences
2013	Suzanne	Devkota	Cedars Sinai Medical-Center, Los Angeles, USA	Medicine, Nutrition
2012	Karim	Bschir	University of St. Gallen, Switzerland	Philosophy of Science
2012	Zi	Chen	Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA	Biomedical Engineering
2015	Kelly	Clancy	University College London, UK	Neuroscience
2009	Riley	Crane	Square, Inc., San Francisco, USA	Physics
2013	Linda	Douw	Amsterdam University, Netherlands, and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA	Neuroscience
2015	Xavier	Dumusque	Observatory of Geneva, Switzerland	Observational Astrophysics
2016	Klaus	Eyer	ETH Zurich, Switzerland	Immune Biotechnology
2012	Michael	Fabinyi	University of Technology Sydney, Australia	Anthropology, Political Ecology
2014	Daniele	Foresti	Harvard University, USA	Engineering, Smart Materials and Biology
2016	Matthieu Emmanuel	Galvez	University of Lausanne and ETH Zurich, Switzerland	Geological and Planetary Sciences
2014	Lisa	Genzel	Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands	Neuroscience
2010	Arko	Ghosh	Leiden University, Netherlands	Cognitive Neuroscience
2005	Dov	Greenbaum	Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel	Law, Technology
2012	Lea	Haller	Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW), Bern, Switzerland	History
2016	Idse	Heemskerk	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA	Quantitative Developmental Biology, Biological Physics
2008	Grit	Hein	University of Würzburg, Germany	Psychology/Neuroscience
2013	Silvie	Huijben	Arizona State University, USA	Biology
2014	Marco	Hutter	ETH Zurich, Switzerland	Robotics
2003	Ferenc	Jordán	University of Parma, Italy	Biology
2015	Lara	Keuck	Bielefeld University and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany	History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine
2015	Stephanie	King	University of Bristol, United Kingdom	Animal Behavior, Evolutionary Biology
2017	Moritz	Kraemer	University of Oxford, United Kingdom	Infectious disease epidemiology and evolution
2011	Adrian	Kuenzler	University of Zurich, Switzerland	Law
2014	Tanya	Latty	University of Sydney, Australia	Behavioural Ecology, Swarm Intelligence
2014	Rain	Liivoja	University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia	International Law
2017	Gabriele	Manoli	École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	Environmental Sciences
2017	Fabian	Menges	Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany	Experimental Physics and Thermodynamics
2016	Patricia	Monteiro	University of Coimbra, Portugal	Neuroscience
2015	Hannah	Mumby	University of Hong Kong, China, and University of South Africa	Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Science
2003	Harini	Nagendra	Azim Premji University, India	Ecology
2012	Michael	Nash	ETH Zurich, Switzerland	Nanobiotechnology
2010	Aoife	O'Donovan	University of California San Francisco, USA	Psychoneuroimmunology
2005	Iruka N	Okeke	University of Ibadan, Nigeria	Microbiology
2013	Chinyere K	Okoro	University of Surrey, United Kingdom	Bacteriology, Infectious Diseases
2005	Anne	Osbourn	John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom	Plant biology, biochemistry, synthetic biology
2016	Igor	Pikovski	Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, USA, and Stockholm University, Sweden	Theoretical Physics
2016	Vanessa	Rampton	ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and McGill University, Canada	Philosophy
2006	Bruno	Reversade	A*STAR, Singapore	Human Genetics
2012	Julia	Sacher	University of Leipzig and Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany	Female Mental Health
2009	Krishanu	Saha	University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA	Stem Cell Engineering
2008	Marcel	Salathé	EPFL, Switzerland	Epidemiology
2013	Carolin	Schurr	University of Bern, Switzerland	Economic Geography, Gender Studies, Science and Technology Studies
2016	Simone	Schürle	ETH Zurich, Switzerland	Nanoengineering
2016	Takuya	Segawa	ETH Zurich, Switzerland	Optical and Magnetic Resonance Microscopy/Spectroscopy
2017	Patrick	Shih	University of California, Davis, USA	Evolutionary Biology and Geobiology
2008	George	Slavich	University of California Los Angeles, USA	Psychoneuroimmunology
2012	Cheemeng	Tan	University of California Davis, USA	Synthetic Biology, Antibiotic Treatment, Gene Regulation
2014	Pedro	Vale	University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom	Infection, Ecology and Evolution
2013	Annelies	Vredeveldt	VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands	Cognitive Psychology
2014	Amar	Vutha	University of Toronto, Canada	Atomic Physics
2014	Yue	Wan	Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore	Genomics
2014	Erica	van de Waal	Université de Lausanne, Switzerland	Primatology, Behavioural Ecology