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Swiss Commission for Polar and High Altitude Research SCPH

Jungfraujoch and beyond: high altitude physiology and medicine

International symposium at the University of Bern on 4 April 2024

© Image source: Konsta Punkka
  • Swiss Commission for Polar and High Altitude Research SCPH

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    Prix de Quervain awarded to two early career researchers

    To Paraskevi Georgagaki and Simon Schneider for their PhDs on ice crystals in clouds and in high altitude medicine respectively. The award ceremony is at the Swiss Polar Day on 5 September

  • 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

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Christian Preiswerk Head SCPH

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

Prix de Quervain