This Commission serves as a strategic body for the Swiss community in polar and high altitude research and represents their scientific interests nationally as well as internationally. In order to promote young talents, it awards the Prix de Quervain. More

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  • Swiss Commission for Polar and High Altitude Research SCPH

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    Swiss researcher becomes Vice-President of the International Arctic Science Committee IASC

    Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, a long-standing member of the Swiss Commission for Polar and High Altitude Research (SCPH) and professor at the University of Zurich, elected IASC Vice-President

  • Swiss Commission for Polar and High Altitude Research SCPH

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    Call: nominations of master's, doctoral or postdoc work in High Altitude Research

    The deadline was on 14 March 2025

  • Swiss Commission for Polar and High Altitude Research SCPH

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    1st conference for the Swiss ocean community

    Organised by the Swiss Commission of Oceanography and Limnology and the Oeschger Zentrum, at the University of Bern on 20 June 2024

  • Swiss Commission for Polar and High Altitude Research SCPH

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    Jungfraujoch and beyond: high altitude physiology and medicine

    International symposium at the University of Bern on 4 April 2024

  • Swiss Commission for Polar and High Altitude Research SCPH

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    IASC Fellowship for early caeer researcher at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI

    Patrik Winiger among the 10 winners out of more than 60 candidates for the Fellowship of the International Arctic Science Committee IASC

Contact

Dr. Roger Pfister Head SCPH

House of Academies
Laupenstrasse 7
P.O. Box
3001 Bern

Prix de Quervain