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SUMMARY:Inaugural Lecture - Prof. Martin Ackermann
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Martin Ackermann\nDate: 7 February 2023\nTime: 17:15 - 1
 8:00\nIntroduction by the Dean\, lecture by Prof. Martin Ackermann. Follow
 ed by an Apero.\nPlace: ELA 1\nZoom link\n\nTitle:\nFrom trying to underst
 and how nature works to impact-oriented environmental research (with a det
 our via the pandemic)\n\nAbstract\nIn this inaugural lecture\, I will bri
 efly describe how my focus shifted from fundamental biological questions t
 o impact-oriented environmental research. I started my academic career as 
 a biologist\, leading a research group that aims to discover principles of
  how bacteria interact with each other and with their environment. Using a
  few examples\, I will discuss our motivation to use a bottom-up approach 
 to microbial ecosystems and describe some of the discoveries that we made.
  With the start of the COVID-19 pandemic\, I suspended most my research ac
 tivities and worked as a science advisor to the Swiss government. I will s
 ummarize what I learned about the science-policy dialogue and describe how
  these learnings motivated me to apply for the position of the director of
  Eawag\, the aquatic research institute of the ETH domain. I will conclude
  my presentation by describing what I see as the main opportunities for Ea
 wag – and the main challenges\, and how we overcome these challenges tog
 ether.\n\nAbout the speaker\nMartin Ackermann studied biology at the Unive
 rsity of Basel\, where he received his PhD in 2002. He then worked for two
  years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California in San
  Diego. In 2004\, he joined ETH Zurich as a senior scientist. He was a
 ppointed by the ETH board as assistant professor SNSF in 2006\, associa
 te professor in 2008 and full professor for microbial systems ecology in
  2015. In addition to his professorship at ETH Zurich\, Martin Ackermann 
 spent ten years heading a research department with around 50 researchers
  at Eawag\, overseeing  solution-oriented research in environmental 
 microbiology. Martin Ackermann was Vice-President from April to July 2020 
 and President from August 2020 to August 2021 of the Swiss National COVID-
 19 Science Task Force. In January 2023\, Martin Ackermann took on the pos
 ition as the Director of Eawag. He mainly focuses on this new role\, and i
 n parallel continues working with his research group as a co-leader.
LOCATION:ELA 1 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ELA%201 https://epfl.zoom.us/j/
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
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