Research USI in facts and figures
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At a glance
Competitive research is all research financed by funds allocated on a competitive basis by the European Union, by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), by the Swiss Innovation Agency - Innosuisse, by swissuniversities, by competitive foundations and other entities.
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Competitive research by funding entity
Year 2022.
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Evolution of competitive research by funding entity
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EU: European Union
SNSF: Swiss National Science Foundation
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ERC
The ERC are prestigious funds from the European Research Council. They are assigned on a competitive basis and represent the international value of the funded research. To this day, active or formerly active USI researchers were awarded 29 ERCs:
Researcher Project Type of ERC Organisational unit Year Michele Parrinello PUSH-BOUND Advanced
GrantInstitute of Computational Science (ICS) 2010
-2015Antonio Lanzavecchia IMMUNExplore Advanced
GrantInstitute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2010
-2015Andrea Alimonti PICS Therapy Starting
GrantInstitute of Oncology Research (IOR) 2011
-2016Fabrizio Grandoni Newnet Starting
GrantDalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA) 2012
-2016Michael Bronstein COMET Starting
GrantInstitute of Computational Science (ICS) 2012
-2017Federica Sallusto Predict Advanced
GrantInstitute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2013
-2018Michele Parrinello VARMET Advanced
GrantInstitute of Computational Science (ICS) 2016
-2020Antonio Lanzavecchia BROADimmune Advanced
GrantInstitute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2015
-2020Andrea Alimonti Immune-senescence Consolidator
GrantInstitute of Oncology Research (IOR) 2016
-2021Petr Cejka HRMECH Consolidator
GrantInstitute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2016
-2021Matteo Prato (joint grant) BLINDSPOT Advanved
GrantInstitute of Management and Organisation (IMO) 2016
-2019Patrick Thomas Eugster LIVESOFT Consolidator
GrantFaculty of Informatics 2017
-2019Michael Bronstein VideoPlus Proof of
ConceptInstitute of Computational Science (ICS) 2017
-2018Michael Bronstein LEMAN Consolidator
GrantInstitute of Computational Science (ICS) 2017
-2020Jürgen Schmidhuber AlgoRNN Advanced
GrantDalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA) 2017
-2022Michael Bronstein GOODNEWS Proof of
ConceptInstitute of Computational Science (ICS) 2018
-2020Davide Rossi CLLCLONE Consolidator
GrantInstitute of Oncology Research (IOR) 2018
-2023Paolo Tonella PRECRIME Advanced
GrantSoftware Institute (SI) 2019
-2023Piotr Didyk PERDY Starting
GrantFaculty of Informatics 2019
-2024Roger Geiger TIL-FIT Starting
GrantInstitute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2019
-2023Gabriele Bavota DEVINTA Starting
GrantSoftware Institute (SI) 2020
-2025Vittorio Limongelli CoMMBi Consolidator
GrantFaculty of Biomedical Sciences 2021
-2026Petr Cejka BRCA INSIGHTS Advanced Grant Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) 2022
-2027Simone Bersini I’M AGEING Starting Grant Faculty of Biomedical Sciences 2023
-2027Arianna Baggiolini Oncogenic Competence
at the Cellular and Multicellular
Level in MelanomaSNSF Starting Grant* Institute of Oncology Research (IOR) 2023
-2027Michael Multerer Multiresolution methods
for unstructured dataSNSF Starting Grant* Euler Institute (EUL) 2023
-2027Andrea Alimonti Microbiota regulation
of prostate cancer growth
and metastatic disseminationSNSF Advanced Grant* Institute of Oncology Research (IOR) 2023
-2028Damiano Costa Temporal Existence SNSF Starting Grant* Faculty of Theology of Lugano 2023
-2027Arianna Calcinotto Dissecting the role of intracellular bacteria
and neutrophil heterogeneity
in cancer susceptibility and progressionSNSF Starting Grant* Institute of Oncology Research (IOR) 2024
-2028* Swiss National Science Foundation transitional funding scheme following the exclusion of Switzerland from the Horizon Europe programme.
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Academic staff by country
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Doctoral students by Faculty
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Arc: Academy of Architecture
BioMed: Faculty of Biomedical Sciences
Com: Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society
Eco: Faculty of Economics
Inf: Faculty of Informatics* formerly Faculty of Communication Sciences
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Evolution of doctoral students
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Evolution of doctoral students by Faculty
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Arc: Academy of Architecture
BioMed: Faculty of Biomedical Sciences
Com: Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society*
Eco: Faculty of Economics
Inf: Faculty of Informatics* formerly Faculty of Communication Sciences
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Doctoral students by country
USI doctoral students come from 46 different countries.
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Research careers of USI PhDs
Examples of universities where young researchers who earned their PhD at USI landed a researcher position
University of Oxford 1st university in the world
- Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2023Columbia University 11th university in the world
- Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2023Cornell University 20th university in the world
- Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2023New York University 24th university in the world
- Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2023University College London 4th university in Europe
- QS World University Ranking 2023École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 7th university in Europe
- QS World University Ranking 2023London School of Economics 13th university in Europe
- QS World University Ranking 2023University of Amsterdam 14th university in Europe
- QS World University Ranking 2023TU Delft 17th university in Europe
- QS World University Ranking 2023University of Bristol 18th university in Europe
- QS World University Ranking 2023
