Addressing inequalities, equal opportunities, and implicit biases has become a top priority for NCCR Robotics. Since its creation, the Equal Opportunities Committee of NCCR Robotics has been offering several funded programs to work on these issues, and activities have significantly intensified.
Some of our goals are:
- Help increase the number of female students in robotics-related fields.
- Enhance career development and the recruitment of female PhD students and researchers.
- Enhance awareness on gender issues and the impact of unconscious bias.
- Offer an attractive work environment conducive to equal opportunities.
To continue our activities and before arriving towards the end of our mandate, we awarded some of the best female master students in the field of Robotics in Switzerland.
After carefully evaluating and discussing, the NCCR Robotics Equal Opportunities Committee decided on the selection of 17 awardees for the “MSc Thesis Award to master students in Robotics”::
- Miriam Müller (ETHZ)
- Silvia Viviani (ETHZ)
- Rahel Rickenbach (ETHZ)
- Defne Ege Ozan (ETHZ)
- Charlotte Nicole Lucie Moraldo (ETHZ)
- Federica Elen Spinola (ETHZ)
- Soo Min Lee (ETHZ)
- Yunfan Gao (ETHZ)
- Lauren Langham Wright (EPFL)
- Diane Edwige Marie Marquette (EPFL)
- Ankita Arun Humne (EPFL)
- Karen Laetitia Preitner (EPFL)
- Pauline Madeline Treyvaud (EPFL)
- Eugénie Marguerite Aurélie Dominique Marie Demeure (EPFL)
- Lisa Marie Lou Marescha (EPFL)
- Marie-Joe Störi (EPFL)
- Michelle Rueegg (UZH /ETHZ)
