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I am a physicist with a background in nanotechnology, and a passion for citizen science. I also have broad experience in science management, teaching and communication, in the United States, China, Japan, Germany, Denmark and Switzerland. During the past decade, I have managed the development of a series of online citizen science projects in a wide range of research fields, starting with the launch of LHC@home in 2004 while I was a manager at CERN. In 2009, I established a partnership for citizen science between CERN, the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the University of Geneva, now called Citizen Cyberlab. As an invited professor at the Centre Universitaire d’Informatique (CUI) of the University of Geneva since 2014, I coordinate Citizen Cyberlab, managing the development of technologies for crowdsourced research, exploring the broader impact of citizen science for society, and promoting public participation in science through hands-on events. I also teach courses on Open Science and Citizen Science at the bachelor and master level. Since 2016 I am Director of the Geneva Tsinghua Initiative, a comprehensive education programme for the UN Sustainable Development Goals. From 2016-18 I was Director of Digital Strategy for the University of Geneva.
 
 

Prior to her current position, Juliane Schroeter has been an ordinary professor of German linguistics at the’University of Geneva since 2020.
She's a specialist in cultural linguistics,’analysis of political communication, analysis of’argumentation as well as pragmatics, textual linguistics and discourse linguistics, and, the combination of quantitative (digital) and qualitative methods.
After studying in Darmstadt, Kassel (Germany) and Saint-Louis (USA) she continued her studies at the University of Zurich, where she obtained a doctorate in 2010 and a venia legendi (authorization) in 2015. She was awarded a SNSF scholarship and became a professor at the Zurich Hochschule fur Angewandte Wissenschaften in 2018. During the same year, she was appointed as an ordinary professor at’University of Vienna.

Jonas is the visionary of the team with feature-ideas that know no limit. Thanks to him we have future-feature-lists scrolling for days. Having been a Secretary General and successful delegate and Chair himself for years, his network and experience are unparalleled.
 

Merging both worlds – MUN and programming, Alex has vast experience in both areas. As a seasoned MUNer, he excelled as a delegate and organized conferences himself. Studying Engineering & Policy Analysis, he gained experience in programming and also worked at various software companies.

I am the CEO and Co-founder of AICrowd, a platform for organising machine learning challenges on a variety of real world problems. 

While working on my PhD at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, I worked on a diversity of problems in Artificial Intelligence from image based detection of plant diseases, to teaching simulated musculo-skeletal models how to walk using reinforcement learning. I took a leave of absence from my PhD to start and focus on AIcrowd.

In a previous life, I was working at the Theoretical Physics department at CERN, on the CERN Public Computing Challenge, which was an experimental effort to crowdsource the compute requirements of physicists at CERN by allowing citizens all over the world to donate their unused computing power. 

I am also an aspiring artist, and have been experimenting with using methods from my research in AI as a form of creative expression. 

Focused on supporting and giving technical assistance to developing countries in the thematic priorities of digital inclusion (women, children, youth, persons with disabilities, indigenous people, older persons) and digital innovation ecosystems.