International Professional Activities

Member of Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation

2014-2018: Member of the research council of the Swiss National Science Foundation in the division of Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences (external pageWeblinkcall_made).

ETH  Women Professors Forum (ETH WPF)

Member and founding president of the ETH WPF (external pageWeblinkcall_made)

Conference chair:

• VECSELs at Photonics West 2011, 2019 and 2024
• MUST 2022
  
• ECOC 2011 (co-chair)

• CLEO Europe 2007 (general co-chair), CLEO Europe 2005 (program co-chair and postdeadline paper chair)

• Advanced Solid-State Lasers 2000 (general co-chair), 1999 (program co-chair)
• 
Ultrafast Optics '99 (co-chair)

Conference subcommittee chair:

• EQEC 1996 for Ultrafast Phenomena

Conference program committees:

• Advanced Solid-State Lasers 1998
• CLEO Europe 1998, 2003
• Ultrafast Optics 1997, 2001
• Ultrafast Phenomena 2004
• FST Japan 1999
• CLEO USA 1993-95, 2001
• Ultrafast Electronics and Optoelectronics 1995, 1997, 1999
• IX International Symposium on Ultrafast Processes in Spectroscopy 1995
• EQEC 1994
• OSA Annual Meeting 1993

Editorial board:

• Applied Physics B: Ultrafast Lasers and Photonic Devices (1994-2013)

• Laser Physics Letters
• Laser&Photonics Reviews

Board member of professional organizations:

• American Physical Society (APS) elected international councillor (2020-2023)
  
• Elected Member of the OSA Board, Director at Large 2010-2012

• EPS (European Physical Society) in quantum electronics 1996-1998 (co-opted), 1998-2004 (elected), 2005-2007 (co-opted)
• Elected Member of the IEEE LEOS Board of Governors 2000-2002

Others:

• Committee Chair of the OSA 1998
  
• Lomb Medal, EPS 2000 & 2001
  
• Fresnel Priz 2011