AVETH, the association of scientific staff, has a new president: Martin Roszkowski. The doctoral student in neuroscience replaces physics doctoral student Arik Jung.
Martin Roszkowski’s research focuses on the effects of early childhood trauma on an organism and how such trauma can be inherited over multiple generations. The doctoral candidate under the Professor in Neuroepigenetics had plenty to celebrate on Monday evening: at its general assembly, the non-faculty staff association unanimously chose him as president.
He will replace Arik Jung, a doctoral candidate at the Laboratory for Solid State Physics (D-PHYS) and the president of AVETH since March 2016. His personal summary? “I enjoy working together with such committed individuals. AVETH can really contribute something towards making ETH a better place to work.”
Preparing the perfect anniversary celebration
The high level of engagement displayed by AVETH members is what inspired Roszkowski to take on this responsibility. “Together, we can achieve great things,” he says, describing the preparations for AVETH’s 50th birthday in 2019 as one of his key tasks. “The anniversary should honour all scientific staff members’ contributions to research and encourage us to think about the past, present and future of research as a career path.”
Roszkowski has already been working with AVETH for two years, most recently leading the Politics Team together with Romain Jacob, a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Computer Engineering (D-ITET). In 2017, among other topics, AVETH is focusing on mentoring and employment conditions for doctoral students, the attractiveness of doctoral programmes and career support for postdocs and senior scientists.
Digitalisation poses challenges for Telejob
A major new challenge is in store for Telejob. The non-profit organisation is associated with AVETH and has been supporting ETH graduates looking for jobs for almost 30 years (external page ETH get hired). In 2018, Telejob will make a major investment in a new, digital product in order to meet the challenges inherent in the rapidly-changing digital recruiting sector.
In order to generate the best ideas for this investment, Telejob has created ETH’s first business hackathon, external page PolyHACK, explains Telejob president Dehua Zhu, a physics doctoral student. The two-day PolyHACK will take place at ETH at the end of October, under the motto “Challenge the future of digital recruitment”.
