Expertise: natural science, such as particle physics, astrophysics and space travel – and also rock (believe it or not, there are people who still listen to that kind of music!)
After some years in the regional print and broadcast media in French Switzerland, in 2000 I joined Radio Swiss International, which then became swissinfo.ch. Since then I have been writing (and producing short videos) on a variety of subjects, from politics to business, and including culture and science.
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How Swiss companies profited from apartheid South Africa
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Before the first free elections in South Africa 30 years ago, Switzerland had close economic ties with the apartheid regime.
Emilia Pasquier, How Swiss ‘unicorns’ and start-ups are faring in California
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Over 150 Swiss start-ups have received a boost from California entrepreneurship, and three of them are already worth $1 billion.
Pamela Munster, ‘From cancer doctor to cancer patient and back again’
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Born in St Gallen and working in San Francisco, world-renowned oncologist Pamela Munster recounts her lifelong battle with the disease.
Google design guru Claude Zellweger puts people and nature before technology
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Claude Zellweger is one of the heads of industrial design at Google, based in San Francisco. Meet a Lucerne native who is anything but a tech junkie.
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Drones have become much more than toys or machines that spy or kill. They are bringing about a new era of industrial automation.
Quantum technology enjoys first commercial successes
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Quantum physics is moving out of the lab and into the industrial phase. Switzerland doesn't want to miss out and is launching its own initiative.
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This year's Swiss Robotics Days took place in November in Lausanne. Over 4,000 people attended the event, including many children.
‘Switzerland should be a model country for innovative sustainability solutions’
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An interview with the new director of Switzerland’s research institute for materials science and technology – the first female boss in its history.
Godard’s assisted suicide – not an option everywhere
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Franco-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard chose an assisted suicide in Switzerland. In other countries the issue is still a controversial one.
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Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Moscow has withdrawn – or been suspended – from all space collaboration projects with the West.
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A robotic arm inspired by an elephant’s trunk? It doesn’t exist yet, but it is the subject of an unlikely Swiss-Italian scientific collaboration.
Are we alone in the universe? Do you think researchers will find evidence of extraterrestrial life? From the article Looking for the origins of life deep underground
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