The international scientific committee will advise the graduate program's director and council on their strategic, scientific and pedagogic orientations and on the choice of PhD projects and students that it shall interview and rank. The council will participate (once a year) in the graduate program's council (enlarged to include two dirctors of partner graduate programs), consacrated to the attribution of fellowships.
 Eric Karsenti (EMBL) president of the International scientific committee |
"The interdisciplinary PhD program "Frontiers in Life Sciences" has been established with some original and important goals inmind,namely to promote a platform where PhD students from all over the world and from a broad range of disciplines could meetandexchange ideas and results. The hope is to create a special spirit promoting creativity, unexpected thoughts and newresearchdirections. Since the program includes philosophy, the idea is also to bring back into the realm of analytical sciencesnotionsconcerning ethical issues and the philosophical implications of scientific discoveries. This seems to me of the utmost importance, in the present days." |
- Ad Aersten (Freiburg) computational neurosciences
- Philippe Aghion (Harvard) economy growth theory
- Uri Alon (Weizmann) graph and network theory
- Siv Andersson (Uppsala) evolution and genomics
- Sebastian Bonhoeffer (Zürich) host-parasite evolution
- Nicola Clayton (Cambridge) behavioural ecology
- Jon Driver (London) brain imaging
- Denis Duboule (Genève) évolution du developpement
- Ernst Fehr (Zürich) theoretical and experimental economy
- Walter Fontana (Harvard) systems biology and evolution
- Evelyn Fox Keller (MIT) history and philosophy of science
- Eric Karsenti (EMBL) cell biology and biophysics
- Laurent Keller (Lausanne) eusociality evolution
- Jiang Lei (Beijing) nanotechnology
- Stanislas Leibler (Rockefeller) physics/biology
- Albert Libchaber (Rockefeller) non linear physics, evolution
- Michel Loreau (McGill) modelisation of ecological systems
- Sanjoy Mitter (MIT) systems, communications, control
- Elisha Moses (Weinzmann)
- Richard Moxon (Oxford) infectious disease and evolution
- Andrew Murray (Harvard) systems biology
- Ouyang Qi (Beijing) self organization physics
- Carl Petersen (Lausanne) integrative neurobiology
- Giacomo Rizzolatti (Parma) animal electrophysiology, social cognition
- Susannah Rutherford (Seattle) evolutionary biology and medicine
- Karl Sigmund (Vienna) game theory
- Dan Tawfik (Weizmann) protein structure, function and evolution
- Saskia van der Vies (Amsterdam) protein machines
- James Vaupel (Rostock) demography
- Adam Wilkins (Bio Essays) scientific papers