Astronomy

Danuta Sosnowska studied Computer Science across two universities: she completed her Bachelor’s degree (1993) and PhD (2000) at the University of Geneva, and her Master’s degree (1995) at the University of Warsaw.

A few months before completing her PhD, she learned that the Geneva Observatory was looking for a computer scientist for a three-year instrumentation project. Danuta was hired to develop software for observation preparation. Additional projects at the observatory followed, and since 2010 she has been developing libraries for spectroscopic data reduction.

Dr Pavan is a tech transfer professional strongly motivated to help innovative technologies meeting industries. She covered different roles in her career, from research to tech transfer, always driven by the passion of scientific knowledge and technologies and by the desire to bring them to the benefit of the society at large. She started her path at UNIGE as post doc in astrophysics in 2009, and she moved to Unitec, our Tech Transfer Office, in 2019. Since 2020 she’s been working as Contract Manager for the Technology Transfer Office (TTO) of EPFL.