PIs of Tomorrow
The "PIs of Tomorrow (PIOT) - The Future of Swiss Research" session offers an opportunity for postdocs and young researchers interested in pursuing an academic career to present a talk similar in format to a professorship application interview.
A jury panel of professors will evaluate the presentations and provide feedback in a one-on-one session afterward. This session has been one of the highlights of the Annual Meeting in our past editions, check here LS2 Annual Meetings 2024 (in Lausanne).
Wednesday 12 February 2025 from 10:45 – 12:35
The Call
We are very pleased to announce that the special session "PIs of Tomorrow - The Future of Swiss Research" will be held at the LS2 Annual Meeting 2025.
This session offers an opportunity for postdocs and junior researchers interested in pursuing an academic career to present a talk similar in format to a professorship application interview. A jury panel of professors will evaluate the presentations and provide feedback in a one-on-one session afterward. Only applicants with ties to Switzerland will be considered. As in 2019 in 2020, in 2021, in 2022, in 2023, and in 2024 the PIOT session will be again a plenary session.
The PIs of Tomorrow chairs: Dr. Timur Ashirov, Dr. Rubén D. Manzanedo, Dr. Leyla Loued-Khenissi, Dr. Milad Radiom
Download the full call bellow:
Where are the past winners now?
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- Lucia Prieto-Godino: 2017 Jury & Public Award Winner
Awarded FENS EJN Young Investigator Prize, L’Oreal-UNESCO for women in science Fellowship
Now Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute (London, UK) - Alexander Harms: 2018 Jury Award Winner
Awarded SNSF Ambizione
Now Assistant Professor of Molecular Phage Biology at ETH Zurich (CH) - Andreas Moor: 2018 Public Award Winner
Awarded SNSF Eccellenza, ERC Starting Grants
Now Assistant Professor of Systems Physiology at ETH Zurich (CH) - Michael Zimmermann: 2019 Public Award Winner
Awarded SNF Advanced Postdoc Mobility Fellowship, SwissTB Award, EMBO Long-Term Fellowship, SNF Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship Now Now Group Leader at EMBL (DE) - Francesca Ronchi: 2019 Jury Award co-Winner
Awarded SNSF-MHV Postdoctoral fellowship, ECCO Grant
Now Associate Professor at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE) - Jean-Philippe Krieger: 2019 Jury Award co-Winner
Awarded an SNF postdoctoral fellowship
Now PI at the VAGALAB and University of Gothenburg (Sweden) - Thomas O. Auer: 2020 Jury Award Winner
Awarded an Ambizione Fellowship, Now Assistant Professor at the University of Fribourg (CH) - Joachim Moser von Filseck: 2020 Public Award Winner
Now Research Group Leader at the Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center (DE) - Elisa Araldi: 2021 Jury Award Winner
Now Assistant ProfessorAssistant Professor at the Università degli Studi di Parma (IT) - Karina Silina: 2021 Public Award Winner
Now Senior Researcher at the Institute for Experimental Immunology, University of Zurich - Alicia Michael: 2022 Jury Award Winner
Now Postdoctoral Researcher at Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research - Adam Gosztolai: 2022 Public Award Winner
Now a Human Frontiers Postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Pierre Vandergheynst at EPFL (CH) and Research Affiliate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US) - Dr. Rubén Delgado Manzanedo: 2023 Jury Award Winner
Now Lecturer at the Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich (CH) - Dr. Bernadette Jana Stolz-Pretzer: 2023 Public Award Winner
Now Scientist at EPFL (CH)
- Lucia Prieto-Godino: 2017 Jury & Public Award Winner