The University Council has appointed four new professors in the fields of medicine, Hispanic studies and psychology.
Few would dispute that greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced to slow down climate change. But how much CO2 do cities actually emit today? Postdoctoral researcher Stavros Stagakis from the Department of Environmental Sciences is exploring ways to measure these emissions.
How do blood vessels form to reliably supply the body with oxygen and nutrients? A research team at the University of Basel, has uncovered a key mechanism by which cells join to build new blood vessels. Their study reveals how pushing and pulling forces enable individual vessel segments to connect and form a continuous blood vessel. The findings deepen our understanding of vascular development and provide a foundation for the development of vascularized organoids.
How do religious themes change when they are repeatedly retold and reimagined? Lavinia Pflugfelder examines this question using the example of the male deity in the modern witchcraft religion Wicca. She is also interested in religious imagery within the metal scene and in horror films.
A week in a Greek refugee camp changed the course of Florian Knappe’s career. Today, he investigates how sports programs in asylum centers can support refugees.
Climate change is bringing longer dry periods and heavier rainfall to Switzerland. In the “Slow Water” project, researchers of the University of Basel are investigating how water can be stored in the landscape to help mitigate dry spells.
His original plan was to become a PE teacher. However, when David Koch had to resubmit his seminar paper, he used the waiting time to complete a research internship. There, he found his field through a combination of movement science, biomechanics and clinical practice.
For millennia, farming in Switzerland did not reduce plant diversity but helped increase it, University of Basel researchers have shown in a detailed reconstruction covering the past 7000 years. Only recent decades paint a different picture.
The ultra-thin material graphene can surprisingly host several superconducting states. This has been demonstrated by researchers at the University of Basel together with colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Some of these states are even stabilized by magnetic fields, rather than being destroyed by them, as is usually the case.
