Biography

• Grew up in Riehen near Basel, Switzerland
• Studies of physics, mathematics and astronomy at Universities of Basel and Geneva
• 1960 PhD in experimental physics at University of Basel with Prof. Dr. Paul Huber
• 1965 Married Andres Hanspeter Zschokke (1930) Dr. iur., citizen of Aarau and Malans

Research and Education Committees

• President of Swiss Physical Society SPG 1979 -1981
• President of „Koordinationskommission für Universitätsfragen“ at Department of Education Basel-Stadt 1988-1992
• President of Section IV for National Research Programmes NRP/SPP of Swiss National Science Foundation 1993-1996
• Member of the ETH council 1997-2002
• President of PRODEX programme committee of the Federal Committee for Space Affairs 2000-2003
• President of „Zschokke-Haus der Studentenschaft Basel“ Foundation

Professional Career

• Study visits 1961/62 at Univ. of Notre Dame, Indiana and 1968 at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
• 1962 Institute for Applied Physics, University of Basel. Assistant to Prof. Dr. Ernst Baldinger
• 1974 Appointment to Professor, Chair of Applied Physics at University of Basel
• First female professor for physics at the University of Basel
• Research areas: organic semiconductors, nonlinear optics, electrical and optical properties of molecular crystals, solid solutions, etc…
• Author and co-author of over 100 scientific publications in international journals

Awards

• 1995 Science Award of Canton Basel-Stadt
• 1999 Appointment as Honorary Member of Swiss Academy of Sciences SANW

Main Activities and Functions

1960
PhD in experimental physics, University of Basel

1974
Appointment to Professor, Chair of Applied Physics at University of Basel
First female professor in physics at the University of Basel

1979 – 1981
President of Swiss Physical Society SPG

1988 – 1992
President of „Koordinationskommission für Universitätsfragen“ at Department of Education Basel-Stadt

1993 – 1996
President of Section IV for National Research Programmes NRP/SPP of Swiss National Science Foundation

1997 – 2002
Member of the ETH council

2000 – 2003
President of PRODEX programme committee of the Federal Committee for Space Affairs

2005 – 2009
President of the PRIX ZONTA jury

2006 – 2011
President of the TREUBEL Foundation of the „Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel“

1995 – Mai 2013
President of the „Zschokke-Haus der Studentenschaft Basel“ Foundation