Steering Board

The ASAIN steering board is a group of passionate volunteers from a diverse range of academic and industry backgrounds.
Peter Bell
ENGINEERING CONSULTANT
Peter is an ex-CERN electronics engineer with a background in electronics development and manufacturing.
Doug Häggström
UNIVERSITY OF BASEL
Doug works on international partnerships at the University of Basel Innovation Office with a focus on life science.
Maartje Bastings
EPF LAUSANNE
Maartje is an associate professor in biomaterials engineering specialising in DNA-based nanomaterials for selective cell targeting.
Martin Dusinberre
UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH
Martin is a historian researching the movement of people, knowledge and goods in the Asia-Pacific region.
Paige Howell
ETH ZURICH
Paige is an accredited Exercise Physiologist and PhD candidate at the Neural Control of Movement lab, ETH Zürich.
John Mansfield
UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH
John researches global linguistic diversity at the University of Zurich, after previously worked at the University of Melbourne.
Ash Ravikumar
WILBE
Ash supports commercialisation of scientific inventions and supports scientists taking the entrepreneurial journey.
Jennifer Robertson

Jennifer supports community engagement with a background in medical research, health and higher education management.
Christian Elias Schneider
UNIVERSITY OF BASEL
Christian is the director of the Innovation Office at the University of Basel and previously helped set up SAAN whilst the Scientific Officer for the Swiss Embassy in Australia.
Eva Segelov
UNIVERSITY OF BERN
Eva is an Australian clinical academic Medical Oncologist who is now Ordinarius Professor leading the Department of Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern

Patrons of ASAIN

H.E. Elizabeth Day
AMBASSADOR OF AUSTRALIA TO SWITZERLAND AND LIECHTENSTEIN
Elizabeth is a career diplomat, having represented Australia in Austria, Timor Leste, France, Papua New Guinea (Bougainville) and now in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
Dr. Bob Bishop
PRESIDENT OF THE ICES FOUNDATION
Bob Bishop is an Australian Citizen who founded the International Centre for Earth Simulation, an independent, non-political and non-commercial Geneva-based organization researching the symbiosis of science, society and nature by utilizing modeling, visualization, big-data, HPC and AI. Before founding ICES in 2010, Bishop spent 40 years building the global business of SGI, Apollo and DEC. He is a long-time Swiss resident.
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