Catherine of Salis

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Katharina von Salis Perch-Nielsen (born October 26, 1940 in Zurich ) is a Swiss geologist , orienteer and women's rights activist . She was Associate Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland.

During her academic career as a professor of Mikropalänotologie of the Geological Institute at ETH Zurich it has for the equal rights committed gender in science and was very active in the fight for the position of girls and women in science at Swiss universities and in high schools.

Career

As the daughter of the journalist Charlotte von Salis , Katharina von Salis grew up in Zollikofen , Canton Bern. She studied geology at the University of Bern , where she obtained her doctorate in geology and sedimentology in 1965 .

She is married to the Danish chemical engineer Jørgen Perch-Nielsen and has three daughters.

Von Salis started as a postdoc first in Copenhagen and then in Paris . From 1968 to 1974 she was a lecturer at the University of Copenhagen . Between 1974 and 1989 she lived with her family in Zurich, then Amsterdam , Vienna , The Hague and London before she returned to Zurich. During this time she worked, among other things, as an academic at the Free University of Amsterdam and the Natural History Museum in Vienna , but also as a consultant biostratographer for Royal Dutch Shell . In 1989 she was appointed titular professor at the ETH Zurich.

She retired on October 1, 2001.

Athletic career

At the very first European orienteering championships in 1962, she was sixth in the individual competition and won the bronze medal in the relay with the Swiss team.

At the European Orienteering Championship in 1964, she won a silver medal in the relay and was tenth in the individual competition.

At the orienteering world championship in Fiskars in 1966, she won a silver medal in the individual competition and landed in 4th place with the Swiss relay.

She won several Swiss championship titles in cross-country skiing . She also tried climbing , but as a woman was not allowed to join the University of Bern's Alpine Climbing Club.

Engagement in women's rights

During her scientific career as professor of micropalaeontology at the Geological Institute at the ETH Zurich, she was very committed to gender equality in science and was active in the fight for the position of girls and women in science at Swiss universities and high schools . She was committed to the women's contact point (today: Equal! - Office for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men), which was founded at ETH Zurich in 1991, and was actively involved in its development.

The women's and equality officers of the universities and the two ETHs organized themselves in the KOFRAH (conference of women's and equality officers at Swiss universities and colleges) in 1992 to share their know-how and to inform and support one another . Katharina von Salis presided over this association from 1997-2001.

She wore it in also means that the federal program was equal opportunity a reality and the federal government for the legislative period of 2000-2003 wife funding in the amount of 16 million Swiss francs spoke. Even today von Salis is committed to equality in Graubünden.

Prices

Katharina von Salis was awarded the Steno Medal in 1998 for her work in micropalaeontology in Denmark and Greenland and as a pioneer in the study of coccoliths . In 2003 she received the honorary membership of the "International Nannoplankton Association" and in 2007 the Dr. Ida Somazzi Foundation for the recognition of her work as a geologist and committed supporter of women at ETH and universities. In 2008 she received the Brady Medal for her contributions in the fields of biostratigraphy , paleobiology and her knowledge of nanofossils .

Selected publications

  • Geological and sedimentological investigations in Molasse and Quaternary southeast Wolhusen (1965)
  • The fine structure and the classification of coccoliths from Maastricht of Denmark (1968)
  • Revision of Triassic stratigraphy of the Scoresby Land and Jameson Land region, East Greenland (1974)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ von Salis: curriculum vitae. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Now live on SRF Zwei - “sportpanorama” on the subject of “Women in top sport”. April 18, 2020, accessed April 22, 2020 .
  3. ^ INA Honorary Members. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
  4. ↑ UniFrauenstelle - Equality between women and men: laudation for Katharina von Salis. University of Zurich., July 22, 2018, accessed on April 22, 2020 . }
  5. ^ Brady Medal. Retrieved April 22, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Salis, Katharina von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salis Perch-Nielsen, Katharina von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss geologist, orienteer and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich