Research USI in facts and figures

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Annual competitive research (mil CHF, on average)	18
Annual FNS funding (mil CHF, on average)	10,5
Annual European funding (mil CHF, on average)	4,5
Ongoing research projects	155
Completed research projects	1124

Institutes	23
Academic staff	869
of which, professors	130
of which, doctoral students	272
Conferred PhDs	377
Countries represented	58

Research partner universities and institutes	110
Countries included in USI research network	30

ERC	20
Marcel Benoist Prize	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

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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
Academic staff by country

USI academic staff comes from 58 different countries.
Doctoral students by Faculty

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Arc: Academy of Architecture
BioMed: Faculty of Biomedical Sciences
Com: Faculty of Communication Sciences
Eco: Faculty of Economics
Inf: Faculty of Informatics
Evolution of doctoral students
Evolution of doctoral students by Faculty

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Arc: Academy of Architecture
BioMed: Faculty of Biomedical Sciences
Com: Faculty of Communication Sciences
Eco: Faculty of Economics
Inf: Faculty of Informatics
Doctoral students by country

USI doctoral students come from 41 different countries.

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 2018
Columbia University	12th university in the world - Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2018
Cornell University	18th university in the world - Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2018
New York University	26th university in the world - Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2018
University College London	3rd university in Europe - QS World University Ranking 2018
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	6th university in Europe - QS World University Ranking 2018
London School of Economics	10th university in Europe - QS World University Ranking 2018
University of Bristol	12th university in Europe - QS World University Ranking 2018
TU Delft	13th university in Europe - QS World University Ranking 2018
University 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	15

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:

Researcher	Project	Type of ERC	Organisational unit	Year
Michele Parrinello	PUSH-BOUND	Advanced Grant	Institute of Computational Science (ICS)	2010-2015
Antonio Lanzavecchia	IMMUNExplore	Advanced Grant	Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB)	2010-2015
Andrea Alimonti	PICS Therapy	Starting Grant	In stitute of Oncology Research (IOR)	2011-2016
Fabrizio Grandoni	Newnet	Starting Grant	Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA)	2012-2016
Michael Bronstein	COMET	Starting Grant	Institute of Computational Science (ICS)	2012-2017
Federica Sallusto	Predict	Advanced Grant	Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB)	2013-2018
Michele Parrinello	VARMET	Advanced Grant	Institute of Computational Science (ICS)	2016-2020
Antonio Lanzavecchia	BROADimmune	Advanced Grant	Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB)	2015-2020
Andrea Alimonti	Immune-senescence	Consolidator Grant	In stitute of Oncology Research (IOR)	2016-2021
Petr Cejka	HRMECH	Consolidator Grant	Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB)	2016-2021
Patrick Thomas Eugster	LIVESOFT	Consolidator Grant	Faculty of Informatics	2017-2019
Michael Bronstein	VideoPlus	Proof of Concept	Institute of Computational Science (ICS)	2017-2019
Michael Bronstein	LEMAN	Consolidator Grant	Institute of Computational Science (ICS)	2017-2022
Jürgen Schmidhuber	AlgoRNN	Advanced Grant	Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA)	2017-2022
Michael Bronstein	GOODNEWS	Proof of Concept	Institute of Computational Science (ICS)	2018-2020
Davide Rossi	CLLCLONE	Consolidator Grant	Institute of Oncology Research (IOR)	2018-2023
Paolo Tonella	PRECRIME	Advanced Grant	Software Institute (SI)	2019-2023
Piotr Didyk	PERDY	Starting Grant	Faculty of Informatics
Roger Geiger	TIL-FIT	Starting Grant	Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB)
Gabriele Bavota	DEVINTA	Starting Grant	Software Institute (SI)

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