Meet Maria Hondele, Professor of Biochemistry February 11th is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Do you think it is important that we celebrate this day? This day is a great opportunity to celebrate the…

Events & Courses For every kind of event, not only beamers, laptops, microphones and other accessories such as a flip chart, whiteboard, laser pointer or visualiser are available; at hand is also a lecture hall technician,…

Main Content Floormanager At the Biozentrum, each research floor has a floormanager. They ensure that the daily operations run smoothly, attend to orders, are in charge of the financial controlling and maintain the cold and…

What does it mean to think and work like a scientist? How do you turn ideas into experiments? For the fifth time, the BSSA – organized and run by the Biozentrum at the University of Basel – brought together high school…

May 15th, 2020, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Prof. Eduard Kellenberger. The physicist has not only gone down in the history and textbooks as a pioneer of electron microscopy but also as an early representative…

Capillary attraction underlies bacterial collective dynamics “Water is the driving force of all nature.” — Leonardo da Vinci Collective motion of active matter occurs in many living systems, such as bacterial communities,…

HR & Finances The University of Basel places great value on offering its employees motivating and transparent employment conditions and providing an environment in which development and a high level of flexibility is…

Look into my eyes… May 2017 Tobias Pauli looks deeply into people’s eyes every day. It’s his job. He is a practicing ophthalmologist and even after so many years, their beauty does not cease to fascinate him. Already during…

Getting the point in science. May 2014 “Shhhh. It’s news time!” – That’s what children used to hear at lunch time. This family tradition has been lost over the years. But not so the broadcast of the Swiss Radio main news at…

Torsten Schwede, a current member of the President’s Board of the University, is set to lead one of Switzerland's most important academic bodies. The chemist heads a research group for structural bioinformatics at the…