Marcel Benoist and Latsis 2020 – Swiss Science Awards for ace of mathematics and systems biologist – culture

Rudolf Aebersold was born in Switzerland in 1954 and obtained his doctorate in cell biology in Basel in 1983. His research and teaching activities have led him as a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology, as an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and as associate professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Aebersold has won numerous renowned awards, including the Human Proteome Organization Achievement Award 2005, the Otto Nägeli Prize 2010, the European Proteomics Association Pioneer Award 2012, and the Paracelso Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society 2018. Since 2020 he is Professor Emeritus at IMSB.

Maryna Viazovska was born in Ukraine in 1984. In 2002, at age 17, she won the International Mathematics Competition; three years later she triumphed again. She completed her undergraduate degree in mathematics as the holder of the Ostrogradsky Research Fellowship of the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kiev.

She has been a professor at ETH Lausanne since 2017 and holds the chair of number theory and has won numerous scientific awards, such as the Clay Research Award 2017 and the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize 2018, which is donated by Mark Zuckerberg and Juri Milner, among others. .