12 UNIGE candidates get a SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024 grant

The Research and Grants Office (RGO) warmly congratulates:

  • Dr Catalina Andricioaei
    Institute of Gender Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences
    Under the supervision of Prof. Delphine Gardey
    "He’s made my life a roiling sea: Domestic violence and denunciation in late socialist Romania."
  • Dr Felix Bayerl
    Department of Pathology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine
    Under the supervision of Prof. Mikaël Pittet
    "Intratumoral Restimulation of CD4 T cells: The Key to Effective Cancer Immune Control?"
  • Dr Fanny Catteau
    Department of Translation Technology (TIM), Faculty of Translation and Interpreting
    Under the supervision of Prof. Pierrette Bouillon
    "Prosody in Interpreting from Swiss French Sign Language into spoken French (ProsIn-SL)"
  • Dr Zhihao Duan
    Section of Mathematics, Faculty of Science
    Under the supervision of Prof. Alba Grassi
    "Resurgence theory and non-perturbative physics".
  • Dr Laura Giglio
    Section of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
    Under the supervision of Prof. Marina Laganaro
    "Cross-decoding of word production and comprehension in post-stroke aphasia"
  • Dr Maria Herz
    Department of Quantum Matter Physics, Section of Physics, Faculty of Science
    Under the supervision of Prof. Fabian von Rohr
    "Synthesis and Characterisation of Novel Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulators"
  • Dr Leonard Hodges
    Department of General History, Faculty of Humanities
    Under the supervision of Prof. Marie Houllemare
    "Imperial Metropolis: Colonial Litigation in the Capital of the French Empire, 1685–1792"
  • Dr Romain Jamagne
    Department of Organic Chemistry, Chemistry and Biochemistry Section, Faculty of Science
    Under the supervision of Prof. Michel Rickhaus
    "TopoGrapher: Topographically Governed Bottom-Up Synthesis of Single-Layered Organic 2D Materials"
  • Dr Henriette Rødland
    ARCAN Laboratoy, Section of Biology, Faculty of Science
    Under the supervision of Dr Anne Mayor
    "Innovation and Adaptation in African Bead Production and Use: tracing women’s labour and agency through Swahili bead assemblages"
  • Dr Soniya Samani
    Department of Nuclear and Corpuscular Physics, Section of Physics, Faculty of Science
    Under the supervision of Prof. Federico Sanchez
    "T2K to Hyper-Kamiokande, Optimising the Path"
  • Dr Andrea Svorinic
    Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Section of Biology, Faculty of Science
    Under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Boland
    "Structural studies of HTR2A serotonin receptor in a native lipid environment"
  • Dr Georges Verly
    ARCAN Laboratoy, Section of Biology, Faculty of Science
    Under the supervision of Dr Anne Mayor - "Archaeological, archaeometrical and experimental approaches of a unique copper alloys metal-plate production in the Nile valley 4000 years ago"

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has awarded more than CHF 2.9 million to these 12 UNIGE researchers.

More information: www.snf.ch


7 Jul 2025

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