Welcome, Verena Griess und Yuko Ulrich!
D-USYS
With the appointment of Verena Griess as Full Professor of Forest Resources Management in the Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems (ITES) and Yuko Ulrich Assistant Professor of Experimental Epidemiology in the Institute of Integrative Biologie (IBZ) the department is again increasing the number of female professors. Welcome at D-USYS!
Professor Verena C. Griess (*1977), currently Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada, as Full Professor of Forest Resources Management. Verena C. Griess conducts research into forest resources, drawing on knowledge from a number of different disciplines in order to develop computer-assisted decision-making models and systems that can be used to devise sustainable exploitation systems. Her particular research focus will enable her to use the newly created professorship to synthesise key findings from allied disciplines and contribute to both fundamental and applied research.
Dr Yuko Ulrich (*1983), currently SNSF Ambizione Fellow at the University of Lausanne, as Assistant Professor of Experimental Epidemiology. Yuko Ulrich's main research focus is on social insects, which are highly suitable subjects for the laboratory-based study of the transmission of infectious diseases. She devotes particular attention to the dynamics of infections within colonies of social insects. Yuko Ulrich is therefore well placed to play a leading role in the relatively new area of experimental epidemiology – a key discipline of the future. The assistant professorship is being fully funded via an ERC Starting Grant and an SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship.