Ambizione Grantees
SNFS – AMBIZIONE – Call 2021
The program is a career instrument of the Swiss National Science Foundation aimed at young researchers who wish to conduct, manage and lead an independent project at a Swiss higher education institution. From the 473 applications submitted for the 15th AMBIZIONE 2021 call, the SNSF awarded 83 new grants at the national level (success rate of 17.5%).
We congratulate the 18 AMBIZIONE grantees of the AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ
The new laureates of the AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ will carry out their research in the Faculty of Humanities (3) the Faculty of Medicine (7), the Faculty of Science (6) and the Geneva School of Social Sciences (2)
Faculty of Humanities
Guy Ackermann - Dpt of Sciences of Antiquity -
L’équipement du sport et de l’éducation en Grèce antique. L’exemple de l’île de Délos.
Caterina Pello - Dpt of Philosophy -
Early Greek Philosophers on Life and Death
André Sant’Anna - Dpt of Philosophy -
From Perception to Memory: Naïve Realism and the Nature of Episodic Memory
Faculty of Medicine
Lena Berchtold - Dpt of Medicine -
Novel tools to improve kidney allograft selection
Lucie Bréchet - Dpt of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics
Aurélien Lathuilière - Dpt of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics -
Probing the heterogeneity of pathological tau species in neurodegenerative disorders
Laure Pittet -Dpt of Paediatrics
Nicolas Roehri- Dpt of Clinical Neurosciences
Network Analysis to Predict Eligibility for Epilepsy Surgery
Corrado Sandini -Dpt of Psychiatry
Alexander Yermanos - Dpt of Pathology and Immunology -
Immune repentance: forgiving the original antigenic sins of B and T cells
Faculty of Sciences
Pietro Benetti Genolini - Dpt of Theoretical Physics -
Symmetry and the AdS/CFT correspondence
Francesca Carocci - Dpt of Mathematics -
Tropical methods for moduli spaces of maps & new techniques in DT theory
Dmitry Lebedev - Dpt of Quantum Matter Physics (DQMP) -
Magneto-opto-electronics of novel 2D magnetic semiconductors
Alberto Roper Pol - Dpt of Theoretical Physics
Julia Venturini - Dpt of Astronomy -
Planet formation in binaries: linking theory and observations
Mirjam Weilenmann - Dpt of Applied Physics -
Advantages of adaptive methods for quantum information theory and quantum foundations
Geneva School of Social Sciences
Philipp Lutz - Dpt of Political Science and International Relations -
Connecting countries and dividing people: The politics of migration cooperation in times of contested globalization
Lucas Müller - Dpt of Geography and Environment –
Avalanches: Making and Exporting Swiss Snow Science, 1867-1994