Our University’s international experts are passionately engaged in extending the frontiers of knowledge and learning. Explore their stories here.
Silas Klein Cardoso, a Brazilian researcher, arrived in January 2020 as a new postdoc at the University of Bern. Two short months later, the country went into shutdown due to Covid-19. Klein Cardoso is part of the Institute for Old Testament Studies.
Professor Thomas Stocker is widely considered a leading international expert in climate and environmental physics. Among his accomplishments is having led pioneering work at the international level to prove scientifically that ongoing global warming is real.
Professor Beate Fricke is an expert in European medieval art history. Currently gearing up to lead a new research project challenging fundamental notions of European art history, this international researcher recently came to Bern by way of University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Kevin Heng is working on answering one of the bigger questions of our time at the Center for Space and Habitability: Are we alone in the universe? Heng's work covers characterising exoplanets or planets from outside our solar system and exploring if they are habitable.
Could artificial intelligence help the 500 million people likely by 2020 to be afflicted by life-changing eye conditions such as glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration? This is one of the questions currently being explored by Professor Raphael Sznitman.
Heike Mayer is a professor of economic geography. With research interests focusing on the economic competitiveness of cities and regions across the world, she recently co-authored a book on secondary capital cities, such as Ottawa, Washington DC and Bern.
How sports can foster the social integration of migrant women in Switzerland is the focus of Betty Alemu's PhD. Find out more about this Ethiopian researcher studying at the Institute of Sport Science.
Characterising exoplanets or planets outside our solar system is the focus of Chloe Fisher's PhD. For more, check out this British researcher's life in Bern and her work at the Centre for Space and Habitability.
Xi Zhang was a young international researcher at the University of Bern. Learn about this Chinese scientist’s life and work at the Institute of Plant Sciences on bio-control of pests in agriculture.
John le Carré, the bestselling spy novelist, was once an international student at the University of Bern. The British alumnus has just passed away at the age of 89 but came rn as a curious 16-year-old boy.
Anna Tumarkin was the first woman in Europe to supervise and examine doctoral candidates as a professor. Highly respected at the time in her field of philosophy, this trailblazer was a role model to many.