Archive | Announcements 2018

2018/12/17

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Bern celebrates 50 years since the moon landing

A science festival will be celebrated in Bern on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing from June 27 to 30, 2019. The University of Bern and Bern Welcome are delighted that the European Space Agency ESA is supporting Bern’s activities as a partner.

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International Astronomical Union Ph.D Prize

CSH Experimental Sciences Postdoc Dr. Niels Ligterink wins the 2018 Division B Ph.D Prize of the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

2018/12/11

© Susanne Wampfler

Great success for the promotion of young researchers at the University of Bern

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has pledged to finance nine new assistant professorships at the University of Bern within the framework of the first "Eccellenza" call for proposals. At the same time, an "Eccellenza" grant was also approved, resulting in a total of approximately 16.2 million in funding flowing to Bern. CSH Fellow Dr. Susanne Wampfler has won the 2018 Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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Results of Divisons and Commissions Committees Electios

Election to Division F Steering Committee of the International Astronomical Union

Prof. Dr. Kevin Heng has been elected to a 3-year term (2018-2021) on the steering committee of Division F of the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

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Election to Executive Committee: Junior Members WG of the International Astronomical Union

Ambizione and CSH Fellow Dr. Maria Drozdovskaya has been named the Co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Working Group of Junior Members of the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

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Greinacher Ph.D Prize

CSH and PlanetS Ph.D student Dr. Shang-Min Tsai has won the 2018 Greinacher Ph.D Prize awarded by the Greinacher Foundation of Bern. Dr. Tsai heads to the University of Oxford for a 4-year European Research Council postdoctoral position with Prof. Dr. Raymond Pierrehumbert.

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Ambizione Fellowship

CSH Fellow Dr. Maria Drozdovskaya has won the Ambizione Fellowship (2018). It is for a duration of 4 years and comes with a Ph.D student position.

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NASA Group Achievement Award

CSH SNF Professor Brice-Olivier Demory is part of the 2018 NASA Group Achievement Award for the discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 system of exoplanets.

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SNF Early Postdoc Mobility

CSH Ph.D student Matej Malik has won one of the 2018 Swiss National Science Foundation Early Postdoc Mobility fellowships to bring to the University of Maryland at College Park, U.S.A., where he will be a postdoc in the group of Prof. Eliza Kempton.

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The Gruber Foundation Fellowship

Our incoming Bernoulli Fellow (Heidelberg-Bern), Dr. Nestor Espinoza (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), has won The Gruber Foundation (TGF) Fellowship (2018), which is administered by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), to bring to the CSH. Dr. Espinoza has since accepted a permanent astronomer position at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, where the Hubble Space Telescope is administered, without taking up the second half of his Bernoulli Fellowship at the CSH.

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AAS announces its 2018 prize winners

AAS announces its 2018 prize winners

The American Astronomical Society (AAS), the major organization of professional astronomers in North America, named the recipients of its 2018 prizes for outstanding achievements in scientific research, instrument development, and writing. Prof. Dr. Kevin Heng won the Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award. This is the ninth time the award has been given out by the AAS.

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Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award

Prof. Dr. Kevin Heng is the 2018 recipient of the Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award of the American Astronomical Society (AAS).

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MERAC Funding & Travel Awards

The award, administered by the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy (SSAA), was received by three of our members. In the first call, Shang-Min Tsai received funding for the project «Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics in Exoplanets». In the second call, Marko Sestovic's project «First estimate for the true occurrence rate for planets around ultracool stars, including for earth-like rocky planets such as TRAPPIST-1» and PD Dr. Martin Jutzi's project «Japanese Hayabusa 2 space mission: exploration of the C-type asteroid Ryugu» received the award.