Basel Night 2015
Date and time
Location
swissnex Boston, Consulate of Switzerland
420 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02138Description
Join the University of Basel for its annual Basel Night at swissnex Boston, and listen to interesting stories from people with a special Basel-Boston connection.
6:30 PM Doors Open
6:45 PM Event Begins
- Welcome: swissnex Boston
- Introduction Speech: Mr. Matthias Geering, Head Communications & Marketing, University of Basel
- Friends of Basel: "State of the Union" - what has transpired in the last months, what is forthcoming.
- Panel:
- Prof. Nicole Sütterlin, Assistant Professor of German, Harvard University
- Prof. Matthias Marti, Associate Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard University
- Dr. Kate Darling, Research Specialist at MIT Media Lab
- Dr. Joe Kossowsky, Research Fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital (CHB) and Harvard Medical School
- Moderator: Mr. Matthias Geering, Head Communications & Marketing, University of Basel
Prof. Nicole Sütterlin, Assistant Professor of German, Harvard University
Nicole Sütterlin is Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Born in Basel, she received her D.phil. from Universität Basel in 2013 and recently moved to Cambridge.
Prof. Matthias Marti, Associate Professor, Dept. of Immunology & Infectious Diseases , Harvard School of Public Health
Matthias Marti is an Associate Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he is currently running a research lab that focuses on basic and translational aspects of malaria transmission. Mathias Marti grew up in Allschwil/Basel, where he also attended high school. From early on, he was interested in biomedical sciences, in particular of the tropics. Undergraduate courses and a research project at the Swiss Tropical Institute introduced him to tropical infectious diseases and that was where he was hooked. With a diploma in hand, he went to El Paso, TX and worked in a parasitology lab for a year, with support of a one-year research fellowship from Hoffmann-La Roche. This unique experience definitively convinced him to stay in science and he was lucky to find a PhD supervisor at the University Zurich with whom he could continue working on infectious diseases. The next step was probably the most critical, moving to a world-class malaria genetics lab at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne. From Melbourne, he moved to Cambridge in 2007, with his wife and 2 children.
Dr. Kate Darling, Research Specialist at MIT Media Lab
Dr. Kate Darling is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab and a fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Yale Information Society Project, as well as an affiliate at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. She holds a law degree from the University of Basel and a doctorate from the ETH Zurich. Her primary interest is in how technology intersects with society. Much of her recent work has explored the near-term effects of human-robot-interaction with a particular focus on legal, social, and ethical issues.
Dr. Joe Kossowsky, Research Fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital (CHB) and Harvard Medical School
Joe Kossowsky, PhD, is a research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital (CHB) and Harvard Medical School. His current research is focused on elucidating psychosocial and pharmacological analgesia mechanisms in pediatrics and the harnessing of the placebo effect to augment the treatment of children with functional pain. Joe received his PhD in clinical psychology and neuroscience from the University of Basel in 2012 (Basel, Switzerland). He completed his psychotherapy training and worked as a psychotherapist with children and adolescents at the psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic at the University of Basel.
Mr. Matthias Geering, Head Communications & Marketing, University of Basel
Matthias Geering is responsible for all content in the different channels of the University of Basel (website, mobile, print, and social media). He coordinates communications between the different departments of the University of Basel and its headquarters. His marketing & event team organize events in both Switzerland and abroad. He is head of a team of 21 employees. From 1983 to 2010, Matthias Geering was working as a journalist at Basler Zeitung; from 2007 to 2010 as Editor-in-Chief.