short Curriculum Vitae
- born in 1959 in Basel, Switzerland
- studied natural science at the ETH-Zürich (= Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule, Polytechnic School) between autumn 1979 and autumn 1983,
finished with diploma as Dipl. Nat. ETH
- worked on the doctoral thesis in behavioural science at the ETH-Zürich (= Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule, Polytechnic School) until autumn 1987,
finished with doctorate as Dr. Nat. ETH
- began an 1-year training as systems engineer at IBM in March 1988
- since March 1989 working for Sandoz (merged with Ciba-Geigy to Novartis,
and then spin-off the crop-protection part and merged with crop-protection part of
Astra Zeneca to Syngenta) as database information scientist in sector Crop Protection;
meanwhile working as Service Delivery Manager (with ITIL v3 Manager certificate)
Family
- married with Jianping Zhuang (from Shanghai, China) since the 8th August 1997
(she came 1987 to Switzerland with a UN scholarship and made a diploma at the University of Basel as chemist with subsequent doctorate in biochemistry;
then working as biochemist at the university of Berne and after a post-diplom study on
intellectual property she is now working for Roche as patent attorney;
besides she was an excellent help on the
trip to China in May/June 1998 to get to some daylily species)
Hobbies
- daylily species (building up an European Hemerocallis species collection)
- gardening in Alsace with pond and daylilies
- observe plants and animals
- photographing (especially plants, animals, landscapes)
- computer & programming (especially databases, websites)
- collecting and watching Disney videos (that is still the second childhood)
- buying and reading good plant books and -literature (small own library)
- walking in the beautiful nature and mountainous region
|
|
