Bodies of the Swiss National Science Foundation

President
Gabriele Gendotti, former member of cantonal government

Vice President
Prof Felicitas Pauss

Representatives of scientific organisations
Cantonal Universities →
Basel: Prof Edwin Ch. Constable.
Bern: Prof Christian Leumann(until 31.7.2016), Prof Daniel Candinas (from 1.8.2016).
Fribourg: Prof Thomas Hunkeler.
Geneva: Prof Jean-Luc Veuthey.
Lausanne: Prof Franciska Krings.
Lucerne: Prof Martin Baumann.
Neuchâtel: Prof Simona Pekarek Doehler.
St. Gallen: Prof Kuno Schedler.
Ticino: Prof Bertil Cottier.
Zurich: Prof Thomas Hengartner.

Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology →
Lausanne: Prof Sabine Süsstrunk.
Zurich: Prof Sabine Werner.

Universities of applied sciences / universities of teacher education →
Prof Erwin Beck (PHSG), Prof Maria Caiata (SUPSI), Prof Barbara Fontanellaz (FHS-SG), Prof Markus Hodel (HSLU), Prof Thomas D. Meier (ZHdK), Prof Falko Schlottig (FHNW), Dr Luciana Vaccaro (HES-SO), Prof Guillaume Vanhulst (HEP-VD).

Academies →
Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences: Prof Maurice Campagna (from 24.3.2016).
SAHS: Prof Claudine Burton-Jeangros.
SAMS: Prof Peter Meier-Abt.
SCNAT: Prof Felicitas Pauss, Prof Marcel Tanner.
SATW: Dr dipl. Ing. Monica Duca Widmer, Prof Ulrich W. Suter (until 23.3.2016).

Government appointed members
Judith Bucher (VPOD), Gabriele Gendotti (former member of cantonal government Ticino), Dr Gregor Haefliger (SERI), Prof Dr h.c. Barbara Haering, Prof Martina Hirayama (Director ZHAW), Dr René Imhof (F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd), Dr dipl.-Phys. Ulrich Jakob Looser (economiesuisse), Anne-Catherine Lyon (Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education (EDK), former member of cantonal government VD).

Co-opted members
Prof Denis Duboule (University of Geneva and EPF Lausanne), Nadine Felix (Stiftung Mercator Schweiz), Prof Susan Gasser (Director of Friedrich Miescher Institute), Prof Marc-André Gonin (BFH Biel, swissuniversities), Prof Janet Hering (Director of Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology), Prof Fritz Schiesser (President ETH Board), Dr Nenad Stojanovic (Actionuni).

Gabriele Gendotti (former member of cantonal government, President); Prof Felicitas Pauss (Vice President); Prof Erwin Beck, Prof Daniel Candinas (from 23.9.2016), Prof Edwin Constable, Prof Denis Duboule, Dr Gregor Haefliger, Prof Thomas Hengartner, Prof Franciska Krings, Prof Christian Leumann (until 31.7.2016), Dr dipl.-Phys. Ulrich Jakob Looser, Prof Kuno Schedler, Prof Sabine Süsstrunk, Dr Luciana Vaccaro, Prof Jean-Luc Veuthey, Prof Sabine Werner.

Internal Audit
ERM Solutions Ltd, Wil St. Gallen.

Compliance Committee
Prof Howard Riezman (President from 1.1.2016), Prof em. Klaus Müller, Prof Monika Roth, Dr Dorothea Sturn.

President
Prof Martin Vetterli

Presiding Board → Prof Martin Vetterli.
President Division I: Prof Paul Schubert.
President Division II: Prof Harald Brune.
President Division III: Prof Urs Frey (until 31.3.2016), Prof Dominique Soldati-Favre (from 1.4.2016).
President Division IV: Prof Katharina M. Fromm (Deputy to the President of the NRC).
President Specialised Committee Careers: Prof Beatrice Beck Schimmer.
President Specialised Committee International Cooperation: Prof Urs Baltensperger.
President Specialised Committee Interdisciplinary Research: Prof Rita Franceschini.

Division I: Humanities and Social Sciences → Prof Paul Schubert (President); Prof Katharina Maag Merki (Vice President); Prof Peter Auer (from 1.4.2016), Prof Claudio Bolzman, Prof Corina Caduff, Prof Roberto Caldara, Prof Franz Caspar, Prof Christiana Fountoulakis, Prof Rita Franceschini, Prof Dario Gamboni, Prof Marc Gruber, Prof Annelies Häcki Buhofer (until 31.3.2016), Prof Madeleine Herren-Oesch, Prof Jon Mathieu, Prof Ioannis Papadopoulos, Prof Jörg Rössel, Prof Sabine Schneider, Prof Silvia Schroer, Prof Peter Schulz (until 31.8.2016), Prof Paul Söderlind, Prof Ola Söderström, Prof Georg von Krogh, Prof Eric Widmer, Prof Markus Wild, Prof Friedrich Wilkening (until 31.3.2016).

Division II: Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences → Prof Harald Brune (President); Prof Samuel Leutwyler (Vice President until 31.3.2016), Prof Arjen K. Lenstra (Vizepräsident from 1.4.2016); Prof Rémi Abgrall, Prof Urs Baltensperger, Prof David Andrew Barry, Prof Eva Bayer-Flückiger, Prof Christian Bernhard, Dr Marc Bohner (from 1.10.2016), Prof Michal Borkovec, Dr Urs Dürig (until 30.9.2016), Prof Ruth Durrer (from 1.10.2016), Prof Paul Dyson (from 1.4.2016), Prof Antonio Ereditato, Prof Thomas Gehrmann, Dr Bernd Gotsmann (from 1.10.2016), Prof Christoph Heinrich, Prof Juliane Hollender, Prof Kai Johnsson, Prof Ursula Keller, Prof Simon Lilly (until 30.9.2016), Prof Marcel Mayor, Prof Bradley Nelson, Prof Oscar Nierstrasz, Prof Fritz Schlunegger, Prof Lothar Thiele, Prof Antonio Togni (until 31.3.2016), Dr Marco Wieland (until 30.9.2016).

Division III: Biology and Medicine → Prof Urs Frey (President until 31.3.2016, member until 30.9.2016); Prof Dominique Soldati-Favre (President from 1.4.2016, Vice President until 31.3.2016); Prof Hugues Abriel (Vice President from 1.4.2016); Prof Markus Affolter, Prof Stylianos Antonarakis (ad hoc until 31.3.2016), Prof Beatrice Beck Schimmer, Prof Chris Boesch, Prof Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Prof Dominique De Quervain, Prof Michael Detmar, Prof Marc Yves Donath, Prof Matthias Egger, Prof Markus Fischer, Prof Cem Gabay, Prof Stephan Grzesiek (until 30.9.2016), Prof Huldrych Fritz Günthard, Prof Michael N. Hall (until 31.3.2016), Prof Markus Hermann Heim, Prof Petra Hüppi, Prof Beat Keller, Prof Laurent Keller, Prof Claudia Kühni (from 1.10.2016), Prof Kaspar Locher (from 1.10.2016), Prof Christian Lüscher, Prof Andreas Lüthi, Prof Adrian Franz Ochsenbein (from 1.4.2016), Prof Matthias Peter (from 1.4.2016), Prof Anita Rauch, Prof Walter Reith, Prof Markus Stoffel, Prof George Thalmann (until 31.3.2016), Prof Bernard Thorens, Prof Didier Trono, Prof Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer, Prof Rolf Zeller.

Division IV: Programmes → Prof Katharina M. Fromm (President); Prof Frédéric Varone (Vice President); Prof Regina Elisabeth Aebi-Müller, Prof Kay W. Axhausen, Prof Claudia Binder, Prof Susanna Burghartz, Prof Fabrizio Butera, Prof Christoph Dehio, Prof Friedrich Eisenbrand, Prof Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Prof Alexander Grob, Prof Stefanie Hellweg, Prof Michael O. Hottiger, Prof Isabelle Mansuy, Prof Katharina Michaelowa, Prof Philipp Rudolf von Rohr, Prof Frank Scheffold, Prof Jürg Ulrich Steiger, Prof Dirk van der Marel.

Specialised Committee Careers → Prof Beatrice Beck Schimmer (President); Prof Michal Borkovec (Vice President); Prof Eva Bayer-Flückiger, Prof Susanna Burghartz, Prof Markus Fischer, Prof Michael O. Hottiger, Prof Petra Hüppi, Prof Fritz Schlunegger, Prof Sabine Schneider, Prof Peter J. Schulz (until 31.8.2016).

Specialised Committee International Cooperation → Prof Urs Baltensperger (President); Dr Marco Wieland (Vice President until 30.9.2016), vacant (Vice President from 1.10.2016); Prof Kay W. Axhausen, Prof Markus Heim (until 31.3.2016), Prof Jon Mathieu, Prof Katharina Michaelowa, Prof Dominique Soldati-Favre, Prof Jürg Ulrich Steiger, Prof Eric Widmer (from 1.2.2016).

Specialised Committee Interdisciplinary Research → Prof Rita Franceschini (President); Prof Walter Reith (Vice President); Prof Lucio Baccaro, Prof David Andrew Barry, Prof Matthias Egger, Prof Antonio Ereditato, Prof Alexander Grob, Prof Jana Koehler, Prof Andreas Lüthi, Prof Sylvain Malfroy, Prof Simone Munsch, Prof Ian Sanders, Prof Ola Söderström, Prof Francesco Stellacci, Prof Dirk van der Marel, Prof Christoph Zollikofer.

Commission on Gender Equality in Research Funding → Prof Dr Susan M. Gasser (President); Prof Dr Thomas Hinz, Prof Dr Nicky Le Feuvre, Gary Loke, Dr iur. h.c. Patricia Schulz, Prof Dr Anna Wahl, Maya Widmer (until 30.9.2016).

Commission on Research Integrity → Prof Dr iur. Dr h.c. Kurt Seelmann (President); Prof Dr iur. Matthias Mahlmann (Vice President until 30.9.2016), vacant (Vice President from 1.10.2016); Prof David Andrew Barry (from 1.10.2016), Prof Beatrice Beck Schimmer (until 30.4.2016), Dr Marco Bieri (from 1.7.2016), Prof Corina Caduff (from 1.10.2016), Dr Martin Christen, Prof Katharina M. Fromm, Marie Guyaz del Aguila (until 31.1.2016), Prof Michael Hall (until 31.3.2016), Prof Michael O. Hottiger (from 1.5.2016), Dr Patricia Jungo, Dr Liz Kohl, Dr Marjory Hunt, Claudia Lautenschütz (from 11.8.2016), Prof Arjen K. Lenstra (until 30.9.2016), Dr Véronique Planchamp, Prof Ian Sanders, Elisabeth Schenker, Prof Dominique Soldati-Favre, Beatrice Tobler-Miescher (until 10.8.2016), Prof Didier Trono (from 1.4.2016), Dr Martin von Arx, Gilles Wasser (from 1.2.2016).

Further information → www.snsf.ch/rnc

Presidents of the Research Commissions at Swiss institutions of higher education →Basel: Prof Primo Schär (until 30.6.2016), Prof Andreas Papassotiropoulos (from 1.7.2016). Bern: Prof René Bloch. Fribourg: Prof Martin Wallmeier. Geneva: Prof Pierre Barrouillet. Lausanne: Prof Martin Preisig. Lucerne: Prof Martin Baumann. Neuchâtel: Prof Pascal Felber. St. Gallen: Prof Michael Lechner. Ticino: Prof Rico Maggi. Zurich: Prof Christoph Hock. EPF Lausanne: Prof Benoît Deveaud-Plédran (until 31.3.2016), Prof Kay Severin (from 1.4.2016). ETH Zurich: Prof Uwe Sauer.

Executive Management →
Director: Dr Daniel Höchli (until 31.3.2016), Dr Angelika Kalt (from 1.4.2016).
Deputy Director: Dr Angelika Kalt (until 31.3.2016), Dr François Baumgartner (from 15.8.2016).
Vice Director: Rosemarie Pécaut.
Heads of Staff Services →
Executive Staff/Legal Department: Inge Blatter.
Communication: Christophe Giovannini.
Heads of Strategy Services →
Strategy Support: Dr Katrin Milzow.
Data and Systems in Research Funding: Benjamin Rindlisbacher.
Heads of Research Funding divisions →
Division I, Humanities and Social Sciences: Dr Ingrid Kissling-Näf.
Division II, Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences: Dr Tristan Maillard.
Division III, Biology and Medicine: Dr Aysim Yılmaz.
Division IV, Programmes: Dr Dimitri Sudan.
Careers division: Dr Marcel Kullin.
Interdisciplinary and International Co-operation division/ SwissCore: Dr Jean-Luc Barras.
Equal opportunities in Research Funding: Maya Widmer (until 30.9.2016).
Heads of Central Services → Director: Rosemarie Pécaut.
Human Resources: Karim Errassas.
Finance: Markus König.
IT Infrastructure Services: René Liechti.
IT Business Services: Mario Andenmatten.
Logistics: Jesper Ott.