Executive Board
The Executive Board of the Swiss Young Academy consists of a speaker and a vice-speaker as well as up to three other members of the Young Academy. The speaker represents the Young Academy internally and externally and heads the Executive Board. A new Executive Board and a new speaker and vice-speaker are elected annually by the General assembly.
2025-26
Speaker
Nawal Kinany
Head of Research and Innovation Programs with Emerging Countries
Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale (HES-SO)
Project:
Vice-Speaker
Sabrina H. Kessler
Senior Researcher and Teaching Associate
Departement of Communication and Media Research
University of Zurich
Projects:
AI in Science and Society
Science vs Activism? Exploring the Boundary
Executive Board Member
Emmanuel Senft
Research Scientist / Group leader
Human-centered Robotics and AI Group
Idiap Research Institute
Project:
Executive Board Member
Eda Elif Tibet
Advanced Post-doctoral Researcher
Wyss Academy for Nature
University of Bern
Executive Board Member
Celestin Mutuyimana
Postdoctoral Researcher and Psychotherapist
Collegium Helveticum
University of Zurich
2024/2025
Sabrina H. Kessler (Speaker)
Nawal Kinany (Vice-Speaker)
Jovana Milić
Eda E. Tibet
2023/2024
Sofie Behluli (Speaker)
Silvia Maier (Vice-Speaker)
Darius Farman
Jovana Milić
Lerato Posholi
2022/2023
Florian Egli (Speaker)
Mey Boukenna (Vice-Speaker)
Sofie Behluli
Darius Farman
Lucas Mueller
2021/2022
Lucas Mueller (Speaker)
Stefanie Boulila
Florian Egli
Darius Farman
BinBin Pearce
2020/2021
Estefania Cuero (Speaker)
Stefanie Boulila
Florian Egli
Lucas Mueller
BinBin Pearce