LS² Annual Meeting 2025

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.

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The PIs of Tomorrow chairs: Dr. Timur Ashirov, Dr. Rubén D. Manzanedo, Dr. Leyla Loued-Khenissi, Dr. Milad Radiom

• • 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)