Space Café

The Space Space Café event-series in 2025 is taking place under the umbrella of the new UZH Space, please find it here

Find below info and archive on the Space Café events that were oganized with support of the UZH Space Hub until 2024.

The Space Café Concept

Space is by design a very innovative sector, where we have the chance and need to push well beyond our boundaries, testing alternative solutions and increasing our knowledge, with many important applications also on Earth and on our everyday life. 
As in every field, it is important to build a solid network since the beginning of your career. However, in academia this network is too often developed only around the specific topic the PhD candidates work on and restricted to academia. This can constitute a limitation in a career path, which is almost never linear. Through this Space Café event-series, you will have the opportunity to meet researchers from different fields and experts from the industry sector, to expand your horizons beyond academia, with direct contact to the commercial world, and to see how your work and research can be used and translated into the real and applied world.
 

The Origin

This interdisciplinary project was funded in 2021 and 2022 by the UZH Graduate Campus. In 2022, the events series was organised by Dr. Valentina Tamburello (postdoc at the Remote Sensing Laboratories), Jacqueline Bannwart (PhD student in the group of Glaciology and Geomorphodynamics), Marco Cilibrasi (PhD student at the UZH Computational Science Institute) and Irina Kempf (PhD student in the Medical Physics and Radiation Research group), with the precious help of Jasmin Kesselring (PhD student in the group of Remote Sensing of Water Systems). In 2023, the Institute for Computational Science supported the events series in collaboration with the UZH Space Hub.
In 2025 the Space Cafè event-series is organized under the news umbrella UZH Space.

Check out out past events in the archive at the bottom of the page.