Research and Education Days

JSP 2023

JSP 2023

The Scientific and Education Days (JSP) will take place in Interlaken on 12th and 13th September 2023.

This annual internal meeting is centred around key academic and research topics as well as facilitates discussions on important innovation and campus subjects.

Bootstrap Day for new Professors – programme 2023

JSP 2023 Programme 2023


Speakers

Arthur Levine

Arthur Levine

Arthur Levine is Distinguished Scholar of Higher Education at New York University. He is also President Emeritus of Teachers College, Columbia University and president Emeritus of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (now Institute on Citizens and Scholars). Levine has been a faculty member and chair of the Institute for Educational Management at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, president of Bradford College and senior Fellow at the Carnegie Foundation. He was also the founder and first president of the the Woodrow Wilson (now High Meadows) Graduate School of Teaching and Learning.

Levine has authored 13 books, including The Great Upheaval: Higher Education’s Past, Present, and Uncertain Future (9/21), and published scores of articles in venues such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Politico, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Education Week and Inside Higher Education. He has appeared on shows such as 60 Minutes, The Today Show, All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Open Mind and Fox News.

Levine has received a number of awards including 26 honorary degrees and Carnegie, Fulbright, Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Wendy L. Queen

Wendy Queen

Prof. Wendy L. Queen obtained her PhD in chemistry from Clemson University in August of 2009. Afterwards, she was awarded a fellowship from the National Research Council to study neutron scattering at the NIST Center for Neutron Research. Here, she chose to focus her work on elucidating small molecule interactions on the internal surface of porous materials, such as metal-organic frameworks and zeolites. In 2012, she was appointed a project scientist position at the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley California where she helped launch a new user program focused on the synthesis and characterization of porous adsorbents.

In 2015, she was appointed Assistant Professor in the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at EPFL, and in 2022 she was promoted to Associate Professor. Her research is focused on the synthesis and characterization of novel porous adsorbents, such as metal-organic frameworks, that are of interest in a number of applications such as gas and liquid separations.

In 2018, she won Merck’s 350 Innovation Challenge, in 2020, she was named one of C&E News “Talented 12”, an award which highlights “a dozen young rising stars who are using chemical know-how to change the world”, and in 2022 she won the Agora Optimus Prize from the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is also the president of the EPFL-Valais Campus Committee and the academic chair of the EPFL Energy Center.

Nhat Anh Dao – Jan Jakub Frybes

“University in 10 years: a student perspective”

Nhat Anh Dao / Jan Jakub Frybes

Nhat Anh Dao
SV Student, former AGEPOLY co-president

Jan Jakub Frybes
PH Student, AGEPOLY Co-president

Registration

The event is INVITATION ONLY 
(Guests: EPFL Presidency, Professors and Senior Scientists).

The invitations were sent at the beginning of July 2023.