Professor Aebischer is President Emeritus of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).
\nDuring his 16-year term as EPFL President, from 2000 to 2016, he transformed the school and established it as a world-calibre university of science and technology. He is also a member of the Brain Mind Institute at EPFL’s School of Life Sciences. Prof Aebischer obtained degrees in medicine (1980) and neuroscience (1983) from the Universities of Geneva and Fribourg. From 1984 to 1992, he was a professor at Brown University’s Department of Neuroscience and Department of Biomaterials, Artificial Organs and Cellular Technology in the US. He returned to Switzerland in autumn 1992 as a full professor at the University of Lausanne and Director of the Division of Surgical Research and the Gene Therapy Centre at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). Prof Aebischer is a member of the Singapore Health and Biomedical Sciences International Advisory Council (HBMS IAC), of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and of the International Advisory Board of Sabanci University in Istanbul. He also chairs the Advisory Committee of École Polytechnique in Paris. He serves on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations including the Swiss Polar Foundation, the Montreux Jazz Festival and the Verbier Festival. Prof Aebischer is a member of the Boards of Directors of Nestlé and Logitech. He is a former Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lonza. He is Chairman of the Novartis Venture Fund (NVF) and a Senior Partner at +ND Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in disruptive technology in the life, physical and data sciences. Prof Aebischer is a founder of three biotech start-ups.
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\nFrom 2018 to 2022, he headed the French Polar Institute IPEV, selecting and implementing French scientific research in the Arctic, sub-Antarctic and Antarctica. Jérôme Chappellaz is also co-founder and former President of the Ice Memory Foundation, dedicated to preserving ice samples from disappearing glaciers for future generations. He also contributes to the advisory boards of the Polar Dialogue, IYGP 2025, Albédo Foundation, Forel Heritage association and Swiss polar Institute. \nHe has been distinguished through several honors, including Knight in the French national order of Merit and of the “Légion d’honneur”, the 2014 Niels Bohr Medal of Honor from Denmark and the Belgica 2023 Medal from the Royal Academy of Belgium.
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\nIn 2007, I joined ETH Zurich, where I consolidated my academic trajectory and expanded my research on mountain building, climate driven surface processes, and geodynamic–geomorphic interactions. By 2012, with growing international recognition, I chose to join the University of Lausanne (UNIL) to establish what would become the ICE (Interdisciplinary Centre for Earth Surface Dynamics) group.
\nAt UNIL, I built ICE into a vibrant, internationally visible research team dedicated to understanding Earth surface processes across timescales, with strengths in geochronology, glaciology, climate–erosion feedbacks, and numerical modelling. Key PIs such as Georgina King and Guillaume Jouvet have been instrumental in shaping ICE’s interdisciplinary identity—combining cutting edge luminescence geochronology, advanced ice flow modelling, and quantitative tectonic–climate research. Together, we have positioned ICE as a leading European hub for process based, data driven, and model integrated Earth surface science.
\nIn 2018, I became Dean of the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, championing interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration. Since August 1, 2021, as Rector of UNIL, I have promoted a leadership approach grounded in dialogue, well being, and collective excellence. With my team, I continue to support high quality research and education, strengthen scientific careers, and advance UNIL’s expertise in environmental and digital transitions, equity, health, innovation, and open science, while sustaining strong European partnerships such as the CIVIS Alliance.
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A postdoctoral position at Caltech further strengthened my international research profile.\nIn 2007, I joined ETH Zurich, where I consolidated my academic trajectory and expanded my research on mountain building, climate driven surface processes, and geodynamic–geomorphic interactions. By 2012, with growing international recognition, I chose to join the University of Lausanne (UNIL) to establish what would become the ICE (Interdisciplinary Centre for Earth Surface Dynamics) group.\nAt UNIL, I built ICE into a vibrant, internationally visible research team dedicated to understanding Earth surface processes across timescales, with strengths in geochronology, glaciology, climate–erosion feedbacks, and numerical modelling. Key PIs such as Georgina King and Guillaume Jouvet have been instrumental in shaping ICE’s interdisciplinary identity—combining cutting edge luminescence geochronology, advanced ice flow modelling, and quantitative tectonic–climate research. Together, we have positioned ICE as a leading European hub for process based, data driven, and model integrated Earth surface science.\nIn 2018, I became Dean of the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, championing interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration. Since August 1, 2021, as Rector of UNIL, I have promoted a leadership approach grounded in dialogue, well being, and collective excellence. With my team, I continue to support high quality research and education, strengthen scientific careers, and advance UNIL’s expertise in environmental and digital transitions, equity, health, innovation, and open science, while sustaining strong European partnerships such as the CIVIS Alliance.\n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1781875497/gesda-platform/person/frederic-herman_photo__Picture5_ucibhx.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1781875497/gesda-platform/person/frederic-herman_photo__Picture5_ucibhx.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1781875497/gesda-platform/person/frederic-herman_photo__Picture5_ucibhx.jpg"}}}}},{"id":"6a354e50f71922e384dcded9","name":"Tiffany Morrison","__typename":"Platform_Person","slug":"tiffany-morrison","path":"/people/tiffany-morrison","bio":{"html":"Laureate Professor Tiffany Morrison holds professorial appointments in the School of Geography, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at Melbourne University, the College of Science & Engineering at James Cook University and the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University. Her expertise is\nin the governance of environmental change, policy responses to warming ecosystems, and governance of new interventions in warming ecosystems. Professor Morrison has twenty years of experience conducting innovative interdisciplinary research spanning human geography, political science, climate science, and ecology. Her team’s research has explained both the causes and consequences of complex environmental governance and the ways in which better governance can benefit the environment, economy and society. Prof. Morrison is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences Australia and was appointed to the Australian Government's Reef 2050 Expert Panel in 2022. She has provided governance expertise to the Scientific Advisory Committees for CGIAR-WorldFish, the Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. Her findings on the governance of changing ecosystems have been published in Science, Nature, PNAS, and Nature Climate Change, and featured in BBC documentaries and global media outlets such The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Le Monde. Professor Morrison’s commitment to driving international policy influence includes 195 Overton policy citations by 23 national governments and intergovernmental bodies such as FAO, World Bank, UNDP, IPCC & IPBES. In recognition of her continuing leadership and impact, Professor Morrison was awarded the prestigious Australian Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council for 2025-2030. Her current Governing Changing Oceans Laureate team is focused on developing multiscale governance frameworks for emerging ocean-based climate interventions, such as chemically modified seawater and genetically modified marine organisms.
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\nEarlier in her career, Dr. Baumgartner supported the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Biological Technologies Office through her role as a Lead Associate and Senior Life Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton. There, she contributed to the development and management of high-risk research programs in synthetic biology, genetics, molecular engineering, and quantitative biology, helping evaluate emerging technologies and coordinate multidisciplinary research teams.
\nDr. Baumgartner earned her PhD in Cell & Molecular Biology from Baylor College of Medicine and completed postdoctoral research at the University of California San Diego in the laboratory of synthetic biologist Jeff Hasty. Her scientific work has included research in molecular genetics, systems biology, and cellular adaptation, with publications in journals including Nature and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Across her work in science, technology development, and entrepreneurship, Dr. Baumgartner has focused on building interdisciplinary approaches that combine biology, engineering, governance, and long-term systems thinking to address the intertwined challenges of biodiversity loss, climate change, and ecological resilience
Prof. Dr. Jérôme Chappellaz is a French expert in glaciology, geochemistry and paleoclimatology. Currently Director of Research at the CNRS and Full Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), he is a specialist of biogeochemical cycles of greenhouse gases and of polar science. He is internationally recognized for his work on the evolution of greenhouse gas concentrations, notably through the analysis of ice cores.
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\nDr Müller has a long experience working at the interface between science, science policy and diplomacy. After an initial stay in academia and completing a doctoral degree in biomedical engineering, Dr Müller joined SwissCore – the Swiss Contact Office for Education, Research and Innovation (ERI) – in Brussels and worked at the interface of science, science policy and diplomacy, first as a research advisor and then as co-director. In this role, he helped shape the involvement and safeguard the influence of Swiss ERI organizations with respect to the European Union, its institutional bodies and related organisations, at a critical time in Swiss-EU relations. In addition, Mr Müller held leadership roles in pan-European science organizations, such as chair of the Science Europe working group on Horizon Europe, the EU’s €80 billion research and innovation programme, and coordinator of a large pan-European initiative on strategic planning and funding for research facilities. He joined GESDA in September 2019 as Executive Director of the Academic Forum.
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\nHer current research spans mountain systems and glacierized regions worldwide, including the European Alps, Himalaya, Japanese Alps, and arid environments such as the Atacama Desert. Recent work has explored sediment transport through glaciers, postglacial erosion processes, and the long-term coupling between climate, ice, tectonics, and topography. She is also leading new initiatives examining spatial and temporal variability in glacial erosion and relief development. \nProfessor King brings expertise that bridges Quaternary science and frontier cryosphere research. Her work combines methodological innovation with fundamental questions about how ice and climate interact to shape our planet, contributing critical insights into past environmental change and informing understanding of cryosphere futures.
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Her work has contributed significantly to the emergence of luminescence thermochronometry and new geochronological approaches capable of quantifying rates of erosion, sediment transport, and landscape evolution. Through interdisciplinary collaborations that integrate field observations, geochronology, numerical modelling, and glaciology, her research provides new perspectives on how glaciers shape landscapes and how environmental systems respond to climate change. \nHer current research spans mountain systems and glacierized regions worldwide, including the European Alps, Himalaya, Japanese Alps, and arid environments such as the Atacama Desert. Recent work has explored sediment transport through glaciers, postglacial erosion processes, and the long-term coupling between climate, ice, tectonics, and topography. 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\nDuring his 16-year term as EPFL President, from 2000 to 2016, he transformed the school and established it as a world-calibre university of science and technology. He is also a member of the Brain Mind Institute at EPFL’s School of Life Sciences. Prof Aebischer obtained degrees in medicine (1980) and neuroscience (1983) from the Universities of Geneva and Fribourg. From 1984 to 1992, he was a professor at Brown University’s Department of Neuroscience and Department of Biomaterials, Artificial Organs and Cellular Technology in the US. He returned to Switzerland in autumn 1992 as a full professor at the University of Lausanne and Director of the Division of Surgical Research and the Gene Therapy Centre at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). Prof Aebischer is a member of the Singapore Health and Biomedical Sciences International Advisory Council (HBMS IAC), of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and of the International Advisory Board of Sabanci University in Istanbul. He also chairs the Advisory Committee of École Polytechnique in Paris. He serves on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations including the Swiss Polar Foundation, the Montreux Jazz Festival and the Verbier Festival. Prof Aebischer is a member of the Boards of Directors of Nestlé and Logitech. He is a former Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lonza. He is Chairman of the Novartis Venture Fund (NVF) and a Senior Partner at +ND Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in disruptive technology in the life, physical and data sciences. Prof Aebischer is a founder of three biotech start-ups.
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\nIn 2007, I joined ETH Zurich, where I consolidated my academic trajectory and expanded my research on mountain building, climate driven surface processes, and geodynamic–geomorphic interactions. By 2012, with growing international recognition, I chose to join the University of Lausanne (UNIL) to establish what would become the ICE (Interdisciplinary Centre for Earth Surface Dynamics) group.
\nAt UNIL, I built ICE into a vibrant, internationally visible research team dedicated to understanding Earth surface processes across timescales, with strengths in geochronology, glaciology, climate–erosion feedbacks, and numerical modelling. Key PIs such as Georgina King and Guillaume Jouvet have been instrumental in shaping ICE’s interdisciplinary identity—combining cutting edge luminescence geochronology, advanced ice flow modelling, and quantitative tectonic–climate research. Together, we have positioned ICE as a leading European hub for process based, data driven, and model integrated Earth surface science.
\nIn 2018, I became Dean of the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, championing interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration. Since August 1, 2021, as Rector of UNIL, I have promoted a leadership approach grounded in dialogue, well being, and collective excellence. With my team, I continue to support high quality research and education, strengthen scientific careers, and advance UNIL’s expertise in environmental and digital transitions, equity, health, innovation, and open science, while sustaining strong European partnerships such as the CIVIS Alliance.
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The most pressing ethical questions concern the growing role of deliberate interventions such as for example glacier stabilisation technologies, the modification of ice-nucleating or snow-augmentation processes that are already being applied or seriously planned in several contexts. According to what principles do we govern such interventions? Future frameworks must balance scientific opportunity with biosafety concerns, respect for natural systems, societal impact and intergenerational equity – aiming for co-flourishing. 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\nFrom 2018 to 2022, he headed the French Polar Institute IPEV, selecting and implementing French scientific research in the Arctic, sub-Antarctic and Antarctica. Jérôme Chappellaz is also co-founder and former President of the Ice Memory Foundation, dedicated to preserving ice samples from disappearing glaciers for future generations. He also contributes to the advisory boards of the Polar Dialogue, IYGP 2025, Albédo Foundation, Forel Heritage association and Swiss polar Institute. \nHe has been distinguished through several honors, including Knight in the French national order of Merit and of the “Légion d’honneur”, the 2014 Niels Bohr Medal of Honor from Denmark and the Belgica 2023 Medal from the Royal Academy of Belgium.
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\nIn 2007, I joined ETH Zurich, where I consolidated my academic trajectory and expanded my research on mountain building, climate driven surface processes, and geodynamic–geomorphic interactions. By 2012, with growing international recognition, I chose to join the University of Lausanne (UNIL) to establish what would become the ICE (Interdisciplinary Centre for Earth Surface Dynamics) group.
\nAt UNIL, I built ICE into a vibrant, internationally visible research team dedicated to understanding Earth surface processes across timescales, with strengths in geochronology, glaciology, climate–erosion feedbacks, and numerical modelling. Key PIs such as Georgina King and Guillaume Jouvet have been instrumental in shaping ICE’s interdisciplinary identity—combining cutting edge luminescence geochronology, advanced ice flow modelling, and quantitative tectonic–climate research. Together, we have positioned ICE as a leading European hub for process based, data driven, and model integrated Earth surface science.
\nIn 2018, I became Dean of the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, championing interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration. Since August 1, 2021, as Rector of UNIL, I have promoted a leadership approach grounded in dialogue, well being, and collective excellence. With my team, I continue to support high quality research and education, strengthen scientific careers, and advance UNIL’s expertise in environmental and digital transitions, equity, health, innovation, and open science, while sustaining strong European partnerships such as the CIVIS Alliance.
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Together, we have positioned ICE as a leading European hub for process based, data driven, and model integrated Earth surface science.\nIn 2018, I became Dean of the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, championing interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration. Since August 1, 2021, as Rector of UNIL, I have promoted a leadership approach grounded in dialogue, well being, and collective excellence. 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Her expertise is\nin the governance of environmental change, policy responses to warming ecosystems, and governance of new interventions in warming ecosystems. Professor Morrison has twenty years of experience conducting innovative interdisciplinary research spanning human geography, political science, climate science, and ecology. Her team’s research has explained both the causes and consequences of complex environmental governance and the ways in which better governance can benefit the environment, economy and society. Prof. Morrison is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences Australia and was appointed to the Australian Government's Reef 2050 Expert Panel in 2022. She has provided governance expertise to the Scientific Advisory Committees for CGIAR-WorldFish, the Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. Her findings on the governance of changing ecosystems have been published in Science, Nature, PNAS, and Nature Climate Change, and featured in BBC documentaries and global media outlets such The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Le Monde. Professor Morrison’s commitment to driving international policy influence includes 195 Overton policy citations by 23 national governments and intergovernmental bodies such as FAO, World Bank, UNDP, IPCC & IPBES. In recognition of her continuing leadership and impact, Professor Morrison was awarded the prestigious Australian Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council for 2025-2030. Her current Governing Changing Oceans Laureate team is focused on developing multiscale governance frameworks for emerging ocean-based climate interventions, such as chemically modified seawater and genetically modified marine organisms.
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\nEarlier in her career, Dr. Baumgartner supported the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Biological Technologies Office through her role as a Lead Associate and Senior Life Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton. There, she contributed to the development and management of high-risk research programs in synthetic biology, genetics, molecular engineering, and quantitative biology, helping evaluate emerging technologies and coordinate multidisciplinary research teams.
\nDr. Baumgartner earned her PhD in Cell & Molecular Biology from Baylor College of Medicine and completed postdoctoral research at the University of California San Diego in the laboratory of synthetic biologist Jeff Hasty. Her scientific work has included research in molecular genetics, systems biology, and cellular adaptation, with publications in journals including Nature and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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