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Researchers at the University of Basel

The University of Basel is a research institution with regional roots and international networks. As a high-profile full university, it creates optimal research conditions and regards the increasing competition as an incentive to constantly improve and position itself both nationally and internationally. It owes its innovative strength to the achievements of its researchers. Researchers present themselves as representatives of all research groups:

Lorenza Mondada
Lorenza Mondada

Lorenza Mondada | Language is not only made up of words

Through video recordings of everyday situations, linguist Lorenza Mondada aims to understand language in all dimensions. We communicate not only with our mouths but with our entire bodies and all our senses.

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Andrea Bieler
Andrea Bieler

Andrea Bieler | Practical Theology for a Changing Society

The path to Andrea Bieler leads to Heuberg in the heart of the old town of Basel. In this historical domicile, the professor of Practical Theology engages with highly relevant topics of the present, such as migration and interculturality.

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Stefanie Bailer
Stefanie Bailer

Stefanie Bailer | From an early age interested in politics

Stefanie Bailer's research revolves around the relationship between citizens and members of parliament. For example, she wants to find out why people are increasingly losing trust in politicians and what role their self-presentation on social media plays.

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Rui Mata
Rui Mata

Rui Mata | Risk-taking from a psychological perspective

Is it possible to predict the decisions people make? For example, the risk someone is willing to accept when making financial choices? Thanks to new innovative approaches, psychology professor Rui Mata hopes to get better and better at such predictions.

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Sabine Huebner
Sabine Huebner

Sabine Huebner | New Perspectives on the Ancient World

Climate change, family life, pandemics – ancient historian Sabine Huebner investigates the everyday life of people 2000 years ago and is frequently inspired by current events.

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Tania Barkat
Tania Barkat

Tania Barkat | How does the Brain hear?

If you can't hear properly, you can't communicate properly. The cause of this problem does not always lie in the ear, but also in the brain. Neuroscientist Tania Barkat is therefore investigating how the brain processes sounds, and why this sometimes doesn't work out.

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Frank Krysiak
Frank Krysiak

Frank Krysiak | Sustainability from the Perspective of the Economic Sciences

Frank Krysiak explores the question of what exactly sustainability is from an economic perspective. In doing so, he is taking into account uncertainties as well as risks and applies the results to topics like energy and climate policy.

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Julia Tischler
Julia Tischler

Julia Tischler | Learning from Africa

Knowledge and innovation flow in only one direction – from rich to poor. Julia Tischler, professor for African History at the University of Basel, questions this common notion. She wants to find out what western industrialized nations can learn from Africa, for example in the health sector.

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Mihaela Zavolan
Mihaela Zavolan

Mihaela Zavolan | Understanding the life trajectory of cells

As an organism develops, a great variety of cells arises, each with its specific shape and function. How does this happen? What goes wrong when the cells become cancerous or as the organism ages? These are the questions that the computer scientist Mihaela Zavolan would like to answer.

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Michael N. Hall
Michael N. Hall

Michael N. Hall | The Discovery of TOR: From the Lab to the Clinic

In the early 1990s, the biochemist Michael N. Hall discovered the protein “TOR” in yeast cells. It later emerged that TOR centrally controls cell growth in many organisms and is implicated in many diseases such as diabetes and cancer. The discovery of TOR has led to new therapeutic strategies.

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Jelena Klinovaja
Jelena Klinovaja

Jelena Klinovaja | Step by Step to a Quantum Computer

As a theoretical physicist, Jelena Klinovaja is constantly developing new ideas and calculating whether they can be put into practice - for example for the construction of a powerful quantum computer.

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Prof. Dr. Silvia Arber
Silvia Arber

Silvia Arber | The Development of Neuronal Circuits in Mind

Silvia Arber is one of the most successful biologists in Switzerland. The neurobiologist studies the establishment and function of neuronal circuits controlling motor behavior.

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Dominik Zumbühl
Dominik Zumbühl

Dominik Zumbühl | Quantum Computer Revolution

The Qubit, like the transistor, will revolutionize our society. Nobody knows exactly when, but Dominik Zumbühl is convinced the time is approaching. He and his research group are working on producing stable and scalable qubits. These qubits will enable the quantum computer to achieve a computing power many times greater than that of today's supercomputers.

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Cornelia Palivan
Cornelia Palivan

Cornelia Palivan | Innovation in Miniature Format

In her search for novel applications, physicist Cornelia Palivan combines artificial materials with biological substances. Among other things, this results in tiny molecular factories for the therapy and diagnosis of diseases.

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Florina Ciorba
Florina Ciorba

Florina Ciorba | Supercomputers for Improving Lives

High-performance computers have revolutionized science and industry. Computer scientist Professor Florina Ciorba looks at ways of optimizing the interactions between machines. In her work, she also encounters numerous parallels with the real world.

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Patrick Maletinsky
Patrick Maletinsky

Patrick Maletinsky | Unravelling the Mysteries of Nanophysics with Spins and Diamonds

In a lab full of futuristic looking devices, Professor Patrick Maletinsky is working on transforming theoretical quantum mechanics concepts into technical applications.

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Ralph Ubl
Ralph Ubl

Ralph Ubl | Doing Research Surrounded by Museums

Basel offers ideal conditions for studying art history: In one of the richest museum landscapes in Europe, the discipline provides a distinctly art-oriented education. Thus, the study of the visual arts is one of the main areas of research at the University of Basel, and it is here that Eikones is located, the Center for the Theory and History of the Image.

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Ansgar Kahmen
Ansgar Kahmen

Ansgar Kahmen | How plants respond to global changes

Ansgar Kahmen, head of the Physiological Plant Ecology Group at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel, is investigating how plants react to environmental changes and what consequences this has for us.

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Martino Poggio
Martino Poggio

Martino Poggio | A High Resolution Nano World

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become an integral and indispensable part of medical diagnostics. Inflammations, injuries as well as tumors can be detected using MRI without exposing the patient to high levels of radiation. Using MRI to study tiny nanometer scale objects is, however, a research field that only opened up recently. Martino Poggio is one of the pioneers trying new ways to image the nanoscale world with ever better resolution.

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Markus H. Heim
Markus H. Heim

Markus H. Heim | Interferon Efficacy Under Scrutiny

Chronic infection with the hepatitis C virus is one of the most common causes of liver disease and can even lead to cirrhosis or cancer of the liver. The current treatment option – using pegylated interferons in combination with ribavirin – can take up to twelve months and often puts great stress on the patient.

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Roderick Lim
Roderick Lim

Roderick Lim | Tissue Analysis Using Nanotechnology

Cancer cells can metastasize and spread quickly, forming secondary tumors in various organs of the body. This is why people suffering from cancer depend on quick diagnostic results. A fast and reliable diagnosis of the tumor’s aggressiveness would thus be a decisive advantage in the fight against cancer.

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Laurent Goetschel
Laurent Goetschel

Laurent Goetschel | What Connects Foreign with Peace Policy

Professor Laurent Goetschel is a prominent media figure and a popular policy and public authority consultant. He is a recognized expert in issues surrounding peace policy and Swiss foreign policy. He began teaching and researching at the University of Basel in 2000.

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Richard Warburton
Richard Warburton

Richard J. Warburton | Quantum Physics in a Semiconductor

Semiconductor technologies such as those used in semiconductor circuits or semiconductor lasers are the building blocks of our computers and the foundation of high-speed data communications on the Internet. To speed them up, ever faster components have to be developed to pack a larger number of transistors onto the surface of a semiconductor chip. Nanoscale components developed in recent years and the resulting nanostructuring of semiconductors are not only a breakthrough for conventional electronics, but for quantum science as well.

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Jörg Huwyler
Jörg Huwyler

Jörg Huwyler | Tiny Trojan Horses as Drug Carriers

At the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the pharmacists, engineers and biologists in the Division of Pharmaceutical Technology are passionate about developing innovative drug formulations. With particular dosage forms, medicines can be delivered to the body in an efficient and controlled fashion. Drugs can therefore be guided across cellular barriers and directed to diseased tissues or organs within the body.

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