Research USI in facts and figures
Latest data available.
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At a glance |
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| Annual competitive research (mil CHF, on average) | 19 |
| Annual FNS funding (mil CHF, on average) | 12,5 |
| Annual European funding (mil CHF, on average) | 4 |
| Ongoing research projects | 212 |
| Completed research projects | 1373 |
| Institutes | 23 |
| Academic staff | 869 |
| of which, professors | 130 |
| of which, doctoral students | 301 |
| Conferred PhDs | 430 |
| Countries represented | 66 |
| Research partner universities and institutes | 110 |
| Countries included in USI research network | 30 |
| ERC | 20 |
| Marcel Benoist Prize | 1 |
| Dr. Josef Steiner Krebsforschungspreis | 1 |
| Dreyfus Prize | 1 |
| Robert Koch Award | 1 |
| Sanofi-Pasteur Institute Award | 1 |
Competitive research is all research financed by funds allocated on a competitive basis by the European Union, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Swiss Innovation Agency - Innosuisse, the Swiss conference of Higher Education, by competitive foundations and other entities.
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Competitive research by funding entity
Year 2018.
Legend
EU: European Union
SNSF: Swiss National Science Foundation
CSSU: Swiss University Conference -
Evolution of competitive research by funding entity
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EU: European Union
SNSF: Swiss National Science Foundation
CSSU: Swiss University Conference -
Academic staff by country
USI academic staff comes from 66 different countries.
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Doctoral students by Faculty
Legend
Arc: Academy of Architecture
BioMed: Faculty of Biomedical Sciences
Com: Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society
Eco: Faculty of Economics
Inf: Faculty of Informatics* formerly Faculty of Communication Sciences
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Evolution of doctoral students
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Evolution of doctoral students by Faculty
Legend
Arc: Academy of Architecture
BioMed: Faculty of Biomedical Sciences
Com: Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society*
Eco: Faculty of Economics
Inf: Faculty of Informatics* formerly Faculty of Communication Sciences
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Doctoral students by country
USI doctoral students come from 44 different countries.
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Research careers of USI PhDs
Examples of universities where young researchers who earned their PhD at USI landed a researcher position
University of Oxford 4th university in the world
- Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2018Columbia University 12th university in the world
- Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2018Cornell University 18th university in the world
- Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2018New York University 26th university in the world
- Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2018University College London 3rd university in Europe
- QS World University Ranking 2018École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 6th university in Europe
- QS World University Ranking 2018London School of Economics 10th university in Europe
- QS World University Ranking 2018University of Bristol 12th university in Europe
- QS World University Ranking 2018TU Delft 13th university in Europe
- QS World University Ranking 2018University of Amsterdam 15th university in Europe
- QS World University Ranking 2018 -
Research partnerships
Latest data available.
Around the world
Countries 30 Universities and partner institutions in the field of research, among which
- University of Oxford
- University of Cambridge
- Princeton University
- ETH Zürich
- University College London
- University of Melbourne
- Karolinska Institute
- Peking University
- EPFL
- Pantheon-Sorbonne University
110 Switzerland only
Universities and partner institutions in the field of research
In particular:
- coordination of the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC)
- participation in The National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCR):
NCCR MARVEL
NCCR QSIT
NCCR RNA & Disease
NCCR Robotics - participation in the Swiss Competence Centers for Energy Research:
SCCER-FURIES
SCCER-SoE - member of the Swiss Finance Institute
- member of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
- member of the Swiss Learning Health System
- member of the Swiss Research Initiative in Systems Biology
- member of the Swiss School of Public Health
- member of the Swiss Public Administration Network (SPAN)
40 Universities and partner institutions for Doctoral Programmes
In particular:
- coordination of the FoMICS - Swiss Graduate School in Computational Science
- coordination of the Confederal Doctoral School in Italian Civilisation
- Doctoral Programme Argumentation in Professional Practice
- Doctoral Programme Swiss Finance Institute
- Doctoral Programme SSPH+ PhD Program in Public Health
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ERC
The ERC are prestigious funds from the European Research Council. They are assigned on a competitive basis and represent the international value of the funded research. To this day, active or formerly active USI researchers were awarded 20 ERCs:
