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The University of Bern is a top-class performer in research areas that are of great social and scientific importance, especially in the following five priority topics: Sustainability, Health and Medicine, Matter and the Universe, Intercultural Knowledge, Politics and Administration. As a comprehensive university, it offers the best conditions for inter-, trans-, and multidisciplinary research of the highest level. The targeted promotion of early-career researchers is a key priority and state-of-the-art conditions have been created to facilitate an academic career. The Coordination Office for the Promotion of Early Career Researchers and the Grants Office advise researchers at every career stage.

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SNSF Advanced Grant 2022: successful Bernese researcher

Prof. Hubertus Fischer (Physics Institute, Climate and Environmental Physics) has received an Advanced Grant within the SNSF replacement scheme for the prestigious ERC projects. Within the "BURNice" project, his group will reconstruct global biomass burning emissions using ethane in polar ice cores over the last glacial cycle.

2023/08/23

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