Founding member board of trustees
1998 – 2005
Sciences interlinked
Verena Meyer was a member of the board of trustees of Gebert Rüf Stiftung from the establishment of the foundation until the end of 2005. She was responsible for the area of the natural sciences. However, her work was also shaped by her extensive experience of Swiss university and science policy. She took a particular interest in projects that bring different disciplines, different universities or different regions closer to each other.
Extraordinary career woman
After studying experimental physics at the university of Zurich and spending two years as a postdoctoral researcher in the US, Verena Meyer returned to the University of Zurich, where she obtained her postdoctoral qualification shortly afterwards and continued her research work in the field of experimental nuclear physics. Thereafter and up until her retirement in 1994 she served the University in a variety of capacities, as an associate professor from 1963 onward, as a full professor from 1968, as dean from 1976 to 1978 and as dean from 1982 to 1984.
Prominent figure in the world of science
Her activities outside the university included membership in the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation. She later went on to chair Department IV, «National Research Programs», before subsequently becoming a member of the Swiss Science Council, which she chaired until 2000. Her active involvement in work outside the university saw her serve on various federal government committees and in numerous foundations. With her departure from Gebert Rüf Stiftung at the end of 2005 this workload was considerably reduced.
Keywords
Emerita Universität Zürich; physics