Portraits and Interviews

Learn more about our researchers through CSH and UniAktuell portraits and interviews.

2025/05/08

Making science tangible with art

How do you make the tectonic development of the planet Mercury tangible with a piece of paper? For planetary scientist Liliane Burkhard, the answer is clear: with the means of art. While she works at the Institute of Physics in the Space Research and Planetary Sciences Divison, she thinks not only in terms of science, but also in terms of artistic forms and structures.

2025/04/03

Congratulations to Christopher Broeg, new PI of CHEOPS

For more than five years, the Bern-based CHEOPS telescope has been providing highly precise data from space. At the beginning of 2025, Christopher Broeg took over the leadership of the mission from Willy Benz. Now the two have met for a conversation for uniAKTUELL.

2024/07/12

New partnership with NASA

A new network of Swiss research institutions teams up with NASA to accelerate the exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Valentin Bickel, planetary scientist at the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH), is the principal investigator of the Swiss research network CHEESE.

Archive - Portraits

2023 - 2018

2023/07/26

Robot Team to Explore the Moon!

In this UniAktuell article you will learn more about the participation of Valentin Bickel, Fellow at the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH), in the ESA "Space Resources Challenge".

2023/03/15

Bern's Interstellar Head Chef

Maria Drozdovskaya searches for recipes every day. But not for balanced main courses or fine desserts, but for comets, stars, and planets. More on her research in this UniAktuell Article.

2023/03/15

ESA's Juice mission: From vision to mission

At the University of Bern, there are some people who have been involved with Juice from the very beginning. One of them is Yann Alibert. He was involved in a proposal to ESA for a space mission to explore the Jupiter system. More in the UniAktuell series "The people behind Juice"

2018/08/27

CHEOPS Swiss event
Photo: © University of Bern / Adrian Moser

Bern's CHEOPS is flying into space soon

Professor Willy Benz explains details of the satellite to the guests in the clean room at RUAG.