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Founded in 1460, the University of Basel is the oldest university in Switzerland.
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Martina Ribar Hestericová
Science is awesome! A bioorganic chemist / science journalist passionate about science communication.
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Menorca Chaturvedi
Scientist by profession.Writer by passion.Explorer at heart. Interested in science,society,culture,psychology. Travel blogging at europediaries.com.
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Sofie Hansen
PhD Candidate University of Basel
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Laura Rieder
Biology student based in Switzerland. Passionate about nature, cycling, sailing and reading good books.
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Dr James Wootton
Helping to make quantum computers IBM Research . Occasionally misusing them for fun and/or science. Two Ts and no Es. All nonsense here is my own doing
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Nora Maria Raschle
As a developmental neuroscientist at the KJPK and University of Basel I am all for women in science, translational research efforts and good rock music.
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Maren Larsen
Urbanist. Anthropologist. Planner. Performer. PhD candidate @UniBasel. Research Affiliate @I2UD. @sciencespo & @UWMadison alumna. Tweets my own.
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Telma G. Laurentino
I’m a Portuguese Nature lover and I dedicated my life to the study of evolution
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Christian Vogler
Psychology, Genetics, Neuroscience: Building on cooperation to turn visions into innovations. Learning for life, gaming for science, evolving for fun.
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Gaudenz Metzger
Works at the New Media Center of the University of Basel and is a lecturer in cultural studies and photography at F+F School for Art and Design in Zurich.
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Benjamin Geer
Research Fellow, Digital Humanities Lab, University of Basel - https://socioresources.net
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Steve Duman
Researcher of Language & Cognition at the University of Basel
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Daria Dayter
My name is Dasha, I’m 33, and I like verbs. The work portion of my work-life balance has to do with being a postdoc at the English Linguistics department.
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Lilla Lovász
Zoologist, Journalist, Photographer. www.camargue.unibas.ch
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Sepideh Alassi
Postdoctoral fellow in the Digital Humanities Lab of the University of Basel. Interests: computer science, mathematics, digital humanities, history of science.
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Rita Kesselring
Rita Kesselring is an anthropologist at the University of Basel, author of the book "Bodies of Truth" (Stanford 2016) and leader of the project Valueworks.
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Alina Giger
Scientist and engineer. PhD candidate at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel
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Iris Mickein
Communications Officer and Editor-in-Chief of Sci Five, the English-language research blog of the University of Basel.
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Simon Schaupp
Is a sociologist working at the University of Basel and co-founder of the Zentrum Emanzipatorische Technikforschung.
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Silke Oldenburg
Silke Oldenburg is an anthropologist working in DR Congo and Colombia at the intersection of urban socialities and infrastructures.
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Eva Brugger
Historian
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Rebekka Weidmann
Assistant professor in social/personality psychology
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Marta Rudnicka
As an anthropologist and PhD candidate @UniBasel I chase the social meanings of taste in northern Ghana.
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Alina Stein
Alina Stein is a PhD student in the Department of Chemistry at Basel University working on artificial metalloenzymes and synthetic biology.
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Jurriaan de Vos
Botanist, Phylogeneticist, Plant Enthusiast. Curator of the Herbaria of the University of Basel, Switzerland.
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Sandra Schlumpf
Researcher and assistant professor in Spanish Linguistics at the University of Basel
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Dr. Robert Burriss
Evolutionary psychologist. Studies human attraction and mate choice. More at RobertBurriss.com
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Isabelle Marthot Santaniello
Papyrologist, scientific collaborator in Ancient History, Department of Ancient Civilizations.
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Maridel Fredericksen
PhD student studying host-parasite coevolution in Daphnia. Museum volunteer w/ Darwin wasps. MS work on zombie ants. Switzerland resident; New England raised
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Anja Zimmer
Phd candidate in psychology at the university of Basel, doing research about how to use apps as therapeutical tools.
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Christine Blume
Senior sleep scientist at the Centre for Chronobiology of the University of Basel, Switzerland.
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Antonia von Schoening
PostDoc researcher in Media Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland
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Elliott M. Hoey
Researcher at the University of Basel
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Tania Barkat
Professor in Neuroscience at the University of Basel. Searching to understand how the brain makes sense of sounds. www.brainsoundlab.com
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Daniel Haag-Wackernagel
Professor emeritus, biologist, research in basic principles of sexuality of animals and humans, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel
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Brigitte Braschler
Ecologist studying effects of man-made environmental change on biodiversity. My projects mostly focus on invertebrates, often ants.
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Patrick Möhl
PhD student in plant ecology at the University of Basel with special interest in roots, alpine plants, climate change and functional patterns in ecology.