Executive Board
The Executive Board of the Swiss Young Academy consists of a speaker and a vice-speaker as well as up to three other members of the Young Academy. The speaker represents the Young Academy internally and externally and heads the Executive Board. A new Executive Board and a new speaker and vice-speaker are elected annually by the General assembly.
2024-25
Speaker
Sabrina H. Kessler
Senior Researcher and Teaching Associate
Departement of Communication and Media Research
University of Zurich
Projects:
AI in Science and Society
Science vs Activism? Exploring the Boundary
Vice-Speaker
Nawal Kinany
Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics, Medical Image Processing Laboratory
University Geneva
Project:
Executive Board Member
Jovana Milić
Assistant Professor
Adolphe Merkle Institute
University of Fribourg
Project:
Swiss Young Network for Science Policy and Diplomacy (SYNESPOD)
Executive Board Member
Eda Elif Tibet
Advanced Post-doctoral Researcher
Wyss Academy for Nature
University of Bern
2023/2024
Sofie Behluli (Speaker)
Silvia Maier (Vice-Speaker)
Darius Farman
Jovana Milić
Lerato Posholi
2022/2023
Florian Egli (Speaker)
Mey Boukenna (Vice-Speaker)
Sofie Behluli
Darius Farman
Lucas Mueller
2021/2022
Lucas Mueller (Speaker)
Stefanie Boulila
Florian Egli
Darius Farman
BinBin Pearce
2020/2021
Estefania Cuero (Speaker)
Stefanie Boulila
Florian Egli
Lucas Mueller
BinBin Pearce