UNI NOVA – Research Magazine of the University of Basel
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PortraitBrain researcher with a jazz flute.
Text: Christoph Dieffenbacher / Philipp Sterzer investigates how our brain works – both in terms of everyday perception and in cases of severe psychosis. But music is his true love.
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OpinionRefuting the myth of neutral technology.
Text: Bianca Prietl / Artificial intelligence is meant to produce objective truths free of human error. Yet cases of algorithmic discrimination give the lie to this promise time and again. How can we imagine technoscientific futures without holding onto the hope of technological neutrality?
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ResearchThe night sky in a supercomputer.
Text: Jana Winkler / Looking into space is the same as looking into the universe’s past. Researchers aim to decode some of its biggest mysteries – using the world’s most advanced radio observatory.
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ResearchHidden network.
Text: Noëmi Kern / Unlike in the natural sciences, much of the data in the humanities is only available in analog formats. Digital humanities is changing this and in doing so, opening up new fields of study.
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ResearchSustainable solvents — do they exist?
Text: Santina Russo / Many of the solvents used in industry are toxic and require elaborate disposal procedures. Researchers from Basel, Bern and Zurich are laying the groundwork for replacing these harmful liquids with safe new substances.
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AlumniSports therapy that makes sense.
Recorded by: Davina Benkert / Sandro Galli studied sports science in Basel. Today, he runs a company that provides personal training based on scientific evidence.
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AlumniSupporting an urban oasis.
Interview: Eva Rösch / Martin Kolb studied at the University of Basel and the University of Münster. Even as a student, he valued the peace and quiet of the Botanical Garden in Basel. Donating to the construction of a new tropical greenhouse was therefore very important to him.
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On the essence of life.
Text: Chiara Saffirio / My book: As a kind of contrast to her research, Chiara Saffirio likes to read books that focus on people and their relationships. She is particularly fond of "A Late Divorce" by Abraham B. Yehoshua.
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In conversation"Many zoonoses are being forgotten in the wake of corona."
Interview: Irène Dietschi / Since the end of the 20th century, a growing number of pathogens are spreading from animals to humans. Jakob Zinsstag studies these zoonotic diseases, or zoonoses, and explores how a new understanding of medicine can help fight them.
