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Since July, 2018, she holds the chair of the Structural Geology and Tectonics group at the Department of Earth Science in ETH Zurich. Her primary research interests are the mechanics and kinematics of deformation in the Earth's lithosphere, rheology of the crust and upper mantle, strain localisation, rock mechanics, tectonic geomorphology ...
Empa was given a new name: Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research for Industry, Building and Commerce. In 1962, Empa moved from Zürich to the suburb of Dübendorf. The focus there is on structural and civil engineering, safety engineering, surface technology, metallic materials, material composites, non-destructive ...
Website. www .zurich .com. Zurich Insurance Group Ltd is a Swiss insurance company, headquartered in Zürich, and the country's largest insurer. [2] As of 2021, the group is the world's 112th largest public company according to Forbes ' Global 2000s list, [3] and in 2011, it ranked 94th in Interbrand's top 100 brands.
ETH Zurich was founded on 7 February 1854 by the Swiss Confederation and began giving its first lectures on 16 October 1855 as a polytechnic institute ( eidgenössische polytechnische Schule) at various sites throughout the city of Zürich. [1] It was initially composed of six faculties: architecture, civil engineering, mechanical engineering ...
Swiss Re Ltd is a Swiss reinsurance company founded in 1863 and headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. It is one of the world's largest reinsurers, as measured by gross premiums written. [4] Swiss Re operates through around 80 offices in 29 countries and employs over 14,000 people. It was ranked 519th on the Forbes Global 2000 list [5] and ...
This is a list of judgments given by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom between the court's inception on 1 October 2009 and the most recent judgments. Cases are listed in order of their neutral citation and where possible a link to the official text of the decision in PDF format has been provided.
Fortifications of Zürich. Appearance. hide. Zürich was an independent ( reichsfrei) city or city-state from 1218 to 1798. The town was fortified with a city wall from the 13th to the 17th century, and with more elaborate ramparts constructed in the 17th to 18th century and mostly demolished in the 1830s to 1870s.
Robert H. Singer, Senior Fellow at Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chair of Anatomy and Structural Biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Ron Sun, Professor of Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science, RPI; Drew Weissman, Physician-scientist and Nobel laureate; Patrick Tufts, Computer scientist and inventor