Three new assistant professorships at the University of Basel
Three researchers have been awarded temporary professorships as part of the SNSF Consolidator Grants and the PRIMA SNSF funding program. The Senate has also awarded four people the Venia docendi.
02 May 2023
At the University of Basel, the PRIMA funding instrument and SNSF Consolidator Grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation are associated with the conferral of an assistant professorship. The professorship is tied to the term of the grant.
The three assistant professorships have been filled at the request of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Science.
- Dr. Tiffany Bouchery was appointed assistant professor (without tenure track) at the Faculty of Science with retroactive effect from 1 February 2023. Bouchery obtained her doctorate at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris in 2011 and has been a PRIMA fellow at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) since August 2021. In her research, she develops targeted clinical approaches for the eradication of hookworms, a parasitic worm infecting approximately 700 million people worldwide.
- Dr. Sabine Hohl was appointed assistant professor (without tenure track) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences with retroactive effect from 1 April 2023. Her appointment is part of an SNSF Consolidator Grant. Sabine Hohl obtained her doctorate in 2014 at the University of Zurich. Her SNSF project focuses on the concept of parenthood in our society, with the aim of creating a normative, liberal-egalitarian foundation for the term «parenthood».
- Dr. Katharina Röltgen has become assistant professor (without tenure track) at the Faculty of Science. The appointment takes retroactive effect from 1 February 2023. Röltgen has been a PRIMA fellow at the Swiss TPH since 1 January 2023, where she researches B cell and functional antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 and other human coronaviruses in Africa. She obtained her doctorate at the Swiss TPH in 2012.
Venia docendi
At the request of the Faculty of Theology and the Faculty of Medicine, the Senate has awarded four people the Venia docendi and the Dr. habil:
Faculty of Theology
- Dr. Stephen Germany for the Old Testament
Faculty of Medicine
- Dr. Tarek Ismail for plastic, reconstructive, aesthetic and hand surgery
- Dr. Julie Refardt for endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism
- Dr. Fabienne Dominique Schwab for gynecology
