Semesters 2025/2026 (HS2025-FS2026)

Sophie Bettex (President)

Sophie is a Doctoral student at the Professorship for Technology and Governance. Her research bridges critical criminology, sociology, and STS, focusing on how AI and algorithms are made in law enforcement agencies. She explores the intersection of technology, governance and social justice through ethnographic methods. She joined SWiSH in January 2024 and is part of the organising committee for the Gender and Science Lecture Series HS2024-HS2025. She also organised the GenTec Workshop Series (FS2025).

Neele Roch (Treasurer)

Neele is a Doctoral student in Security, Privacy and Society. With a background in computer science, Neele's research focuses on usable security. She aims to enhance the adoption and effectiveness of secure systems by designing and evaluating user-centric approaches. Her passion lies in conducting empirical studies to assess the usability and effectiveness of secure applications, identifying issues, and developing design recommendations for improved user experiences.

Tessa Portier (Board Member)

Tessa is a Doctoral student in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience. Working within the learning sciences, she studies how emotion and cognition interact to shape how we take in new information. Her research focuses on curiosity: what creates the spark that draws us in, how it supports learning over time, and how it unfolds both within individuals and in social interactions. She values the idea of lifelong learning and carries that perspective into her work. She joined SWiSH in 2025.

Frederike Maas (Board Member)

Frederike is a Doctoral student in Literary and Cultural Studies. She joined SWiSH in January 2021.

Sarah Gomm (Board Member)

Sarah is a Postdoctoral researcher in International Political Economy and Environmental Politics. She is part of the Swiss Environmental Panel project in which Swiss citizens’ opinions and preferences on environmental issues are measured and explored in a long-term panel survey in cooperation with the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (Bundesamt für Umwelt, BAFU). Her main research interests lie in the fields of environmental politics, public opinion research, and political psychology. She joined SWiSH in January 2023.

Semesters 2024/2025 (HS2024-FS2025)

• R.D.H (Co-President)
• Clémentine Abed Meraim (Co-President)
• Sophie Bettex (Vice-President)
• Neele Roch (Treasurer)
• Frederike Maas (Board Member)
• Sarah Gomm (Board Member)

Semesters 2020-2021/2/3 (HS2020-Hs2022)

• Claire Blaser (Co-President)
• Bessie Noll (Co-President)
• Claudia Wiehler (Vice President)
• Jelscha Schmidt (Treasurer)
• Alex Bornhoft (External Relations Coordinator)
• Victoria Andrea Haerter (Internal Relations Coordinator)

Foundational Semesters 2019-2020 (FS/HS2019-HS2020)

• Leonora Haelg
• Jelscha Schmid

SWiSH is the Society for Wom*n in the Social Sciences and Humanities at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Science (D-GESS) at ETH Zurich, founded in February 2018. Our main goal is to achieve gender equality and diversity at D-GESS and ETH Zurich in general.

We seek to establish a fair and safe environment for wom*n at the department that is free from structural and institutional discrimination and to achieve equal representation of wom*n in senior positions, as well as throughout the department. We represent wom*n at D-GESS in university-related policy issues, to guarantee the continuation of gender equality efforts and to push for equal representation and higher visibility of wom*n throughout the department. SWiSH is committed to working towards integrating more critical perspectives on gender, race, class, and disability in the curriculum. We also collaborate with FLINTA* organizations and female/diversity associations. Read more about the activities we're currently focusing on here.

We use the spelling 'wom*n' to emphasize that all persons identifying as female are included. Some of our events are reserved for FLINTA*. By this, we mean Female, Lesbian, Intersex, Non-Binary, Trans, and Agender people.

You can contact us by e-mail: swish@gess.ethz.ch

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