Space Café

Space Café event-series in 2024!

Are you a young researcher? Do you work in the Space sector or are you simply passionate about Space and would like to know more?
The Space Café is an informal series of events where young researchers will have the opportunity to meet, discuss and build a solid network within the Space Community. The organizers themselves are all junior researchers, associated with the UZH Space Hub. They work in different research areas (astrophysics, remote sensing and life science), but have one key aspect in common: Space.

The current organizing committee consists of Benno Neuenschwander and Gabriele Bramati:

Our last event in November 2023 focused on how to sell a PhD in industry. Find more info here and stay tuned for our upcoming events. 

Find more information on our past events at the very bottom of the page. 

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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.

Would you like to help us? 

We are looking for PhD-students from the UZH Space Hub Network to define and realize the next events. Contact us if you are interested, this is a great opportunity to grow your network!
 

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). Check out out past events at the bottom of the page.

Acknowledgements

In 2023, the Institute for Computational Science supported the events series in collaboration with the UZH Space Hub.