General Assembly 2017

16 new members welcomed

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Membres

16 new members welcomed — Ulrich W. Suter (President until 9.5.2017), Thierry Pun, Beat De Coi, Paul F. Seidler, Hans Christian Öttinger, Martina Hirayama (Executive committee until 9.5.2017), Zhanbing Ren, Alessandro Curioni, Stephanie Teufel, Joachim Buhmann, Adrian Altenburger, Christoph Weder, Hans Marcus Textor, Bruno Walser (Outstanding Achievement Award) und Bernhard Hämmerli (Outstanding Achievement Award).

The Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW has welcomed 15 full members and 1 corresponding member. These have a considerable performance record in technical sciences.

The SATW is a network of distinguished personalities from science and industry. Members may be elected to members who are particularly committed to the objectives of the SATW and / or the technical sciences. Corresponding members may be chosen by persons who are technically and scientifically active abroad. All members were elected by secret ballot under the leadership of the Nomination Committee.

For the year 2017, a total of 16 new members were elected, 15 of them full and one corresponding. These were solemnly welcomed at the SATW's Annual General Assembly on 9 May. The SATW now counts a total of 296 full and 27 corresponding members as well as 13 honorary members.

Full members

Adrian Altenburger, Hochschule Luzern – Technik & Architektur
(HSLU)
Joachim Buhmann, ETH Zürich
Alessandro Curioni, IBM Research
Beat De Coi, ESPROS Photonics AG
Hanspeter Fässler, Dätwyler Holding AG
Markus Gross, ETH Zürich
Rolf Ingold, Universität Freiburg
Bruno Oberle, EPFL
Hans Christian Öttinger, ETH Zürich
Thierry Pun, Université de Genève
Jürgen Schmidhuber, IDSIA
Paul F. Seidler, IBM Research
Stephanie Teufel, Universität Freiburg
Hans Marcus Textor, ETH Zürich
Christoph Weder, Universität Freiburg

Corresponding member

Zhanbing Ren, China