SNFS Grantees PRIMA / Ambizione 2021

Ambizione Grantees

SNFS – AMBIZIONE – Call 2021

The Ambizione 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 University of Geneva

The new laureates of the University of Geneva 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

2022_1222_breche_l.pngImprovement of memory in Mild Cognitive Impairment using transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) guided by high-density EEG and MRI
 

Aurélien Lathuilière - Dpt of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics -
Probing the heterogeneity of pathological tau species in neurodegenerative disorders
 

Laure Pittet -Dpt of Paediatrics
Harnessing the beneficial non- specific effects of early measles vaccination in children

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Nicolas Roehri- Dpt of Clinical Neurosciences
Network Analysis to Predict Eligibility for Epilepsy Surgery

Corrado Sandini -Dpt of Psychiatry
2023_0207_corrado_sandini.pngTowards an ecological understanding of affective and sleep co-morbidities during adolescence in ADHD, through dynamic network analysis

 

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 PolDpt of Theoretical Physics
Alberto_play.pngExploring the early universe with gravitational waves and primordial magnetic fields
 

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