The Research and Grants Office and the Vice-Rector for Research warmly congratulate:

• Dr. Eve Derenne, Department F.-A. Forel for environmental and aquatic sciences (Science), Wiggle-matching the past: Testing an innovative method on human skeletons to improve Final Neolithic chronology in Central Europe
• Dr. Alexandra Latshaw, Department of Applied Physics (Science), Nonlinear Microscopy for Bioimaging Using Superconductors (NIMBUS): Integrating a Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector with a Nonlinear Microscope for Enhanced, Minimally Invasive Bioimaging
• Prof. Ramesh Pillai, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (Sciences), Testing whether metabolite-capped RNAs are the basis for a human genetic disorder
• Dr. Boris Sieber, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (Sciences), Yeast InterComm: Conformational interactome of cell-cell communication in fission yeast
• Dr. Viros Siskaran, Department of Nuclear and Particle Physics (Science), Revolutionizing CT Medical Imaging: 20× Faster Photon-Counting Detection
• Dr. Mamady Nabe, Department of Basic Neuroscience (Medicine), Neural mechanisms of Adaptive speech planning in natural conversation
• Dr. Romain Büchi, Department of Philosophy (Humanities), Philosophical Research in the Age of AI
• Prof. Alexander Künzli, Department of Translation (FTI) : Subtitling The Geneva International Film Festival (SUBGIFF)
• Dr. Pierrick Laulan (CIGEV), Acute Hypoxia as a Reversible Model of Cognitive Aging: Insights from Associative Memory, Emotional Processing, and Neurophysiological Biomarkers
• Dr. Christina Zavlanou, Computing Science Center (CUI), An Extended Reality Framework for Self-Administered Subcutaneous Injections

Thanks to SNSF Spark 2025 grants, 10 researchers from UNIGE have the opportunity to conduct, manage, and lead an independent project with an average budget of CHF 93,850.