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) | 21 |
| Annual FNS funding (mil CHF, on average) | 14,4 |
| Annual European funding (mil CHF, on average) | 4,2 |
| Ongoing research projects | 208 |
| Completed research projects | 1598 |
| Institutes | 24 |
| Academic staff | 1008 |
| of which, professors | 127 |
| of which, doctoral students | 342 |
| Conferred PhDs | 516 |
| Countries represented | 66 |
| Research partner universities and institutes (based on co-affiliations in Scopus indexed publications) |
500 |
| Countries included in USI research network | 96 |
| ERC | 23 |
| 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.
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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 -
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 23 ERCs:
Researcher Project Type of ERC Organisational unit Year Michele Parrinello PUSH-BOUND Advanced
GrantInstitute of Computational Science (ICS) 2010
-2015Antonio Lanzavecchia IMMUNExplore Advanced
GrantInstitute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2010
-2015Andrea Alimonti PICS Therapy Starting
GrantInstitute of Oncology Research (IOR) 2011
-2016Fabrizio Grandoni Newnet Starting
GrantDalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA) 2012
-2016Michael Bronstein COMET Starting
GrantInstitute of Computational Science (ICS) 2012
-2017Federica Sallusto Predict Advanced
GrantInstitute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2013
-2018Michele Parrinello VARMET Advanced
GrantInstitute of Computational Science (ICS) 2016
-2020Antonio Lanzavecchia BROADimmune Advanced
GrantInstitute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2015
-2020Andrea Alimonti Immune-senescence Consolidator
GrantInstitute of Oncology Research (IOR) 2016
-2021Petr Cejka HRMECH Consolidator
GrantInstitute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2016
-2021Matteo Prato (joint grant) BLINDSPOT Advanved
GrantInstitute of Management and Organisation (IMO) 2016
-2019Patrick Thomas Eugster LIVESOFT Consolidator
GrantFaculty of Informatics 2017
-2019Michael Bronstein VideoPlus Proof of
ConceptInstitute of Computational Science (ICS) 2017
-2018Michael Bronstein LEMAN Consolidator
GrantInstitute of Computational Science (ICS) 2017
-2020Jürgen Schmidhuber AlgoRNN Advanced
GrantDalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA) 2017
-2022Michael Bronstein GOODNEWS Proof of
ConceptInstitute of Computational Science (ICS) 2018
-2020Davide Rossi CLLCLONE Consolidator
GrantInstitute of Oncology Research (IOR) 2018
-2023Paolo Tonella PRECRIME Advanced
GrantSoftware Institute (SI) 2019
-2023Piotr Didyk PERDY Starting
GrantFaculty of Informatics 2019
-2024Roger Geiger TIL-FIT Starting
GrantInstitute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2019
-2023Gabriele Bavota DEVINTA Starting
GrantSoftware Institute (SI) 2020
-2025Vittorio Limongelli CoMMBi Consolidator
GrantFaculty of Biomedical Sciences 2021
-Petr Cejka BRCA INSIGHTS Advanced Grant Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2021
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Academic staff by country
USI academic staff comes from 66 different countries.
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Doctoral students by Faculty
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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
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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 46 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
