UNI NOVA – Research Magazine of the University of Basel
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Alumni
Team leader at swisstopo.
Interview: Bettina Huber / Tobias Providoli studied geography at the University of Basel and works for the Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) in Wabern near Bern. He now leads a production team working on the topographic landscape model (TLM) and is also involved in AlumniGeo.
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Alumni
Launch of AlumniPharmazie.
Text: Bettina Volz-Tobler / AlumniPharmazie, a new specialist alumni organization that is long overdue, will be launched at the alumni general assembly in June 2020. This process has been driven by the executive board of the Basel Pharmaceutical Society (Pharmazeutische Gesellschaft Basel), which has been around for almost 100 years.
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Alumni
The memoirs of Dieter Imboden.
Dieter Imboden, an environmental researcher and political scientist who spent much of his childhood in Basel, is a past winner of the Alumni Award. He recently published his autobiography.
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Alumni
An ambassador for German scholarship.
Thomas Maissen studied history, Latin and philosophy at the University of Basel. Today, he is the Director of the German Historical Institute in Paris.
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Alumni
From biology to communications.
Interview: Bettina Volz-Tobler / Tanja Dietrich studied biology at the University of Basel. Today, she is communications director at Basel Zoo and owner of a communications agency specializing in online marketing and consulting for small and mediumsized enterprises and associations.
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Alumni
An economist against inequality.
Pia Schneider has worked at the World Bank since 2004, where she has held a position as lead economist for health issues for the last three years. At the University of Basel she studied economics and she obtained a PhD in health economics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Alumni
New alumni association created.
Text: Jolanda Bucher / Actuarial science has been taught at the University of Basel for 80 years now. This makes the program one of the oldest German-language courses in the field. This year’s anniversary event included the launch of the actuarial science alumni association.
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Alumni
Supporting “Offener Hörsaal”.
Text: Annalena Durrer und Timo Posselt / Money collected through this year’s Annual Giving will be donated to the “Offener Hörsaal” association at the University of Basel.
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Alumni
A theologian in recruitment.
Interview: Bettina Volz-Tobler / Gabriela Brahier Stark studied Reformed theology in Basel while she was still a Catholic. After training as a curate in a parish in Graubünden, she converted, serving as a Reformed pastor in Reinach, Basel-Landschaft. At the same time, she obtained her doctorate, with a thesis on ethics, and was awarded a post-doctoral grant. She then moved into the private sector, where she joined a recruitment company.