Peter Ahcin and Franziska Adamek discuss measurement setup for testing components of the future electric energy system in the ETH High Voltage Laboratory, run under the guidance of Professor Christian M. Franck.

Mark Höpflinger and Simone Schürle of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems enjoy being served by the mobile robot Shanti, while their peers Ralf Kästner and Hsi-Wen Tung chat during a break.

Verena Knobloch and Carolin Reischauer testing MRI acquisition techniques in the human brain at the Institute for Biomedical Engineering of the University and ETH Zurich run under the guidance of Prof. Peter Boesiger.

PhD-student Carl Robert Kriewitz explains some results obtained through the use of marker fluids in the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology directed by Prof. Dr. Robert Boes.

Professor Peter Chen and Society in Science fellows introduce the fellowship and what it means for them.

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Society in Science – The Branco Weiss Fellowship is a unique postdoc program. It provides young researchers around the world with a generous personal research grant, giving them the freedom to work on whatever topic they choose anywhere in the world, for a maximum duration of five years.

This research fellowship is designed to support postdoctoral researchers after their PhD and before their first faculty appointment. Those in current postdoctoral positions are also eligible. Ideally fellows pursue unconventional projects in new areas of science, engineering and social science fields involving societal aspects.

The Society in Science fellowship program was initiated and financed by the Swiss entrepreneur Dr. Branco Weiss, who passed away in October 2010. The program is coordinated by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH).

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The Role of Genetic Factors in the Formation of Identical Twins

14.02.2012 13:55

The Economist has published an article about the research of past Branco Weiss fellow Bruno Reversade, who may have found a gene involved in monozygotic twinning in humans.

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Occupy Science?

26.01.2012 08:45

Society in Science fellow Krishanu Saha has recently had an opinion piece published in magazine 'The Scientist'. His article discusses the mounting dissatisfaction with governance approaches that erect barriers between donors and the biomedical research in which they are participating, and ways to address it.

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"Attention and olfactory consciousness" by Andreas Keller

20.12.2011 15:54

Society in Science fellow Andreas Keller has recently published an article about olfactory consciousness. This article is a part of a larger project in which he plans to elucidate the ways in which consciousness research is biased by the focus on visual consciousness. Many theories about visual consciousness cannot be generalized to other modalities like olfaction and the following article discusses some examples.

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