Science after Noon: Research not about but in spite of Covid-19

Laboratories remain closed in times of lock-down; doctoral and post-doctoral students spend their time in home offices instead of at the university; much investment in digital communication formats is being made instead of exchanging ideas over coffee. What was and is it like to do research under difficult conditions?

Panel:

• Cristina Urchueguía, professor of musicology at the Philosophical-historical Institute of the University of Bern, Board Member of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Interactive Geometry Lab, ETH Zurich
• Peter Wurz, professor of Space Research and Planetology at the Physics Institute of the University of Bern
• Dominique Genoud, professor for Advanced Data Engineering at the Information Systems Institute, HES-SO Wallis

Discussion Leader: Sabine Süsstrunk, President of the Swiss Science Council

Registration: swr@swr.admin.ch

This event is part of the Science & policy series in cooperation with the Swiss Science Council SSC and will be held in englisch.