Office of Research
The Office of Research is responsible for research funding (national and international) and prizes, technological infrastructures, Competence Centres, research ethics and animal welfare, as well as the departmental evaluation. In addition, it offers many other services that research directly benefits from.
The unit reports to the Vice President for Research and is divided into four groups: Research Initiatives & Infrastructures, Research Ethics & Animal Welfare, Grants Office, and EU GrantsAccess.
We take care of research collaborations that cut across fields and departments, e.g. of scientific networks such as ETH Zurich's Competence Centres or national funding programmes such as NCCR. We are also responsible for ETH's Technology Platforms and the Scientific Equipment Program.
An important focus currently is on medical research and innovation, where we promote collaboration within ETH as well as with external pageUniversity Medicine Zurichcall_made. We also serve as the interface to numerous other centres and initiatives such as the Singapore-ETH Centre.
Dr. Leszek Reinhard
Head
Scientific Equipment Program, Technology platforms, inventoried equipment
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Dr. Adrian Rohner
Deputy head
Competence Centres
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Dr. Friederike Saathoff
Research and strategic initiatives in the focus area medicine
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Dr. Sarah Lechmann
Scientific Equipment Program, Technology platforms
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Dr. Matthias Unterburger
NCCR, Technology platforms
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Research has its own ethics, which aims, for instance, at protecting study participants or laboratory animals and at safeguarding their dignity. We coordinate the ETH Zurich Ethics Commission and offer comprehensive advice on the reduction and avoidance of animal experiments (3R Principles).
We also support researchers in living up to ETH's Integrity Guidelines. In the same context we coordinate the GSP Commission and collaborate closely with the Trusted Intermediaries.
Last but not least, we are interested in the societal impact of research. We provide advice and foster dialogues about ethical questions, e.g. via the ETHics Lunch.
Dr. Gérald Achermann
Head
Scientific Integrity
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Dr. Raffael Iturrizaga
Scientific Integrity, Scientific Misconduct, GSP Commission
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Dr. Eva Bobst
Scientific Integrity
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Philipp Emch
Ethics Commission
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Zora Muriel Schmid
Nagoya Protocol, Ethics Commission
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Dr. Samia Bachmann
Animal Welfare Officer, Function Lead of Animal Welfare and 3R
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Dr. Jasmin Frey
Animal Welfare Officer
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Dr. Stefanie Hiltbrunner
Animal Welfare Officer
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Mayamy Scheuber
Administration and IT Assistant
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We are in charge of ETH's internal funding programmes, counselling about national funding, and promoting young researchers.
We are also responsible for research prizes and special funds in the Domain VPR, coordinate the collaboration on open science within ETH, and form an interface to the external pageETH Foundationcall_made. We support the Research Commission and the Prize Commission. The periodical evaluations of ETH's departments are with the Grants Office, too.
You can find more information on research funding on our webpages. We are happy to answer more in-depth questions - just contact us.
Dr Sonja Negovetic
Head
ETH Grants, Research Commission
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Dr Martine Vernooij
Deputy head
Branco Weiss Fellowships, research prizes, Prize Commission
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Elisabeth Mitter
ETH Fellowships, SNSF programmes
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Dr Annette Brockerhoff
Evaluation of departments, ETH Doc.Mobility Fellowships, ETH-internal research prizes
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Dr Ignaz Strebel
ETH Career Seed Awards, Open Science
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Adelheid Sonderegger
eResearch
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Office Management/Administration
Natalie Landis
Administration: ETH Grants, Evaluation of departments, IT
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Jacqueline K?pfli
Administration: ETH Fellowships, ETH Career Seed Awards, ETH Doc.Mobility Fellowships, Scientific Equipment Programme
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Sonja Isliker
Administration: Branco Weiss Fellowships, ETH-internal research prizes
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Veronika Jakobi
Administration: Branco Weiss Fellowships, ETH-internal research prizes
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We provide comprehensive support for international funding schemes to researchers at ETH Zurich and UZH and specialise on EU funding. We organise events, offer funding counselling, help with proposal writing and submission, and can even support you with project management.
Besides, we also do political work in order to ensure Switzerland's participation in European programmes. We are a part of the external pageEuresearch networkcall_made as well as of external pageEURAXESS Switzerlandcall_made.
Agatha Keller
Co-head EU GrantsAccess
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Sofia Karakostas
Co-head EU GrantsAccess
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Please find EU GrantsAccess's team members on our website.