UNI NOVA – Research Magazine of the University of Basel

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  Talking about language

  Text: Sarah Schupp / Martin Luginbühl is a language enthusiast. His passion as Professor of German Studies is for applied linguistics – such as language use in the media.

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  Likes for the lab

  Text: Olivia Poisson / Doing a doctorate can be a lonely business. Not so for Martina Hestericová, a chemist with a passion for making science more accessible on social media.

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  The art of ethnography

  Text: Samuel Schlaefli / Silvy Chakkalakal is studying the photographs and films of the American ethnologist Margaret Mead. Mead’s fieldwork in Samoa and Bali was not simply academic research, but artistic practice.

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  From Biozentrum to Silicon Valley

  Matthias Geering / Nico Ghilhardi’s career has rocketed over the past 16 years – thanks to hard work and academic excellence.

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  Perspectives on Europe and the world at large

  Julia Konstantinidis / Ralph Weber likes to cross boundaries. As assistant professor at Basel’s Institute for European Global Studies, his frame of reference is global rather than Swiss or European.