SNSF Ambizione: 22 Projects at UZH
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is funding 22 projects by early-career researchers at the University of Zurich with an Ambizione grant.
With Ambizione, the SNSF has been funding promising early career researchers from Switzerland and abroad since 2008. In the 2025 call, 22 UZH researchers convinced the evaluation committees with their applications. Of the funded projects, eight are based at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and eight at the Faculty of Science, while six are based at the Faculty of Medicine.
Following a two-stage evaluation, the SNSF has now awarded a total of 93 grants. The average duration of the projects is four years and the average grant amount is CHF 706,300.
The funded projects at UZH are:
| Principal Investigator (PI) | Project | Faculty | Departement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karvat Golan | ThoughtShield: Towards real-time detection and modulation of intrusive thoughts | MeF |
University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy |
| La Manna Federico | Beyond vicious: cellular and molecular mechanisms of spine metastasis formation in prostate cancer | MeF | Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology |
| Nissler Robert | Multiplexed Nanosensor Platform for Advanced Sepsis Diagnostics | MeF | Balgrist University Hospital and Swiss Paraplegic Centre |
| Schmidig Flavio | Memory Consolidation Beyond Sleep: Offline consolidation during sleep-like wake states | MeF |
University Children’s Hospital Zurich |
| Tschumi Nadine | Curbing HIV transmission in southern Africa: molecular epidemiology to inform targeted prevention | MeF | Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Hygiene |
| Van Hove Hannah | IMMUNE-ARIA: Dissect vascular–IMMUNE mechanisms driving ARIA-related bleeding and inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease immunotherapy and cerebral amyloid angiopathy | MeF | Institute of Experimental Immunology |
| Aksoy Ömer Mert | Symmetry Topological Field Theory Applications on Crystalline Matter | MNF | Department of Physics |
| Brooks Morris | Decoupling in Quantum and Classical Many-Body Systems | MNF | Institute of Mathematics |
| Capatti Zeno | Factorisable Local Unitarity for Hadronic Cross-Sections | MNF | Department of Physics |
| Ferrillo Martina | Intelligent Simulation for Background Modelling in the SHiP experiment | MNF | Department of Physics |
| Lukashenko Valeriia | Beyond color: A New Window into the Dynamics of Charmless B-Meson Decays with CMS | MNF | Department of Physics |
| Moro Filippo | Unlocking Embodied Intelligence with In-Memory Neuromorphic Computing | MNF | Institute of Neuroinformatics UZH/ETH |
| Oestreich William | Social Information at Sea: Oceanic Insights into the Ecology and Evolution of Collective Behavior | MNF | Department of Evolutionary Anthropology |
| Scialò Carlo | Exploring neuronal resilience to seeded TDP-43 pathology to reveal therapeutic targets for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Dementia | MNF | Department of Quantitative Biomedicine |
| Breyer Magdalena | The Political Mobilization of Pink-Collar Workers | PhF | Department of Political Science |
| Genoni Andrea | Unraveling the integration paradox: Why highly educated immigrants feel particularly excluded (PARADOX) | PhF | Department of Sociology |
| Huwyler Oliver | The Causes and Consequences of the Unattractiveness of Elected Public Office | PhF | Department of Political Science |
| Ichien Nicholas | Comparison-based encoding: A cognitive operation prompting stimulus encoding for downstream generalization or memory specificity | PhF | Department of Psychology |
| Jaramillo Dent Daniela | Influencers as Visual and Platform-Based Authorities: How Epistemic Authority is Portrayed, Claimed, and Perceived on Digital Platforms | PhF | Department of Communication and Media Research |
| Liekefett Luisa | Deviations from Expert Advice under Uncertainty | PhF | Department of Psychology |
| Stallone Sabrina | The Antelives of Things. Speculative Connectivities and Incomplete Infrastructures on the Strait of Messina | PhF | Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies |
| Yersin Séveric | From Public Service to Market Commodity. Liberalisation of the Electricity Sector in Western Europe (1960–2000) | PhF | Department of History |