Joël Mesot

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Joël François Mesot (born August 31, 1964 in Geneva ) is a Swiss physicist . Since 2008 he has been a full professor at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and Lausanne (EPFL) . On January 1, 2019, he replaced Lino Guzzella as President of ETH Zurich.

Career

Mesot studied physics at the ETH Zurich and received his doctorate in solid-state physics in 1992 . He also conducted research at the Laue-Langevin Institute in Grenoble, France. He then worked as a researcher at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). From 1997 to 1999 he was at the Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois, Chicago , USA. He then returned to the Paul Scherrer Institute as a group leader, where he became head of the laboratory for neutron scattering from 2004 . Three years later he was elected director of the institute. In 2007 he was awarded a titular professorship at the ETH Zurich and in 2008 a double professorship in Zurich and at the EPF in Lausanne. Two years later he became a member of the council and the business committee of the ETH board as a representative of the research institutes. The X-ray laser SwissFEL was implemented under his leadership .

Joël Mesot is a member of the Senate of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers (HGF) and other expert committees. Since 2010 he has been a delegate at the ERIC for the European Spallation Source . He is also the second vice -chairman of the Marcel Benoist Board of Trustees , the Board of Trustees of Technopark Aargau and the Swiss Innovation Park as well as the Board of Directors of Villigen AG (PARK InnovAARE) . He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Technorama Winterthur since 2018 .

Others

Joël Mesot is the first French President of ETH Zurich in over a hundred years. Federal Councilor Schneider-Ammann called this a “bridge building” and spoke of Mesot as an “integrating personality”, since he was anchored in the research of two parts of the country. The challenges in this office include maintaining the top global position of ETH, especially with respect to emerging universities in Asia, promoting further funding from the federal government and third parties, promoting the expansion of the Hönggerberg campus and dealing with internal problems such as bullying and lack of support that became known in 2018 .

Mesot is entitled to reside in Fiaugères and speaks French, German, English and Spanish.

Honors

In 2002, Mesot received the Latsis Prize from the ETH Zurich and in 1995 the IBM Prize from the Swiss Physical Society (SPG).

Publications (selection)

  • Neutron scattering in condensed matter physics . 2009.

Editor:

  • Neutron News. 1999-2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joël Mesot elected as the new ETH President , ETH News from October 24, 2018.
  2. ↑ NZZ : New ETH President: “A digital tsunami is rolling towards us” . (October 24, 2018)
  3. ^ NZZ: The physicist Joël Mesot becomes the new President of ETH Zurich . (October 24, 2018)
  4. ↑ Nils Pfänders: The new ETH President has started one of the most difficult jobs in Switzerland. NZZ, January 11, 2019, accessed on January 11, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Mesot, Joël
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mesot, Joël François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva