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Laura Nyström honoured as most exemplary leader
At the togETHer staff party, Professor Laura Nyström was presented with the ALEA Award as ETH Zurich’s most exemplary leader. The award, presented annually, aims to emphasise the huge importance of leadership skills for the success of ETH and to promote the desired leadership culture.
“A friendly, respectful atmosphere characterised by responsibility and trust is one of the aspects that her research group particularly values. They also value her extraordinary support in combining work and family life, and her assistance with her employees’ careers,” said Linda Wehner, representative of the non-faculty staff association AVETH, before she presented Laura Nyström with the ALEA Award at today’s staff party togETHer.
Nyström, who works at the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, is one of 46 leaders who were nominated as the best leader by their employees this year. In the end, she was the one who most impressed the jury, consisting of representatives from HR, the Staff Commission, Equal, AVETH and the external body UND. Her employees explain what exactly makes the Finn’s leadership style so exemplary in the external pagevideo.
Food Biochemistry group in the social media
ERC Starting Grant to Prof. Laura Nyström
Prof. Laura Nyström, Head of the Food Biochemistry group, is awarded the Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC). The project Soluble dietary fibre: unraveling how weak bonds have a strong impact on function (BINDING FIBRES, 2016-2020) will study of interactions with soluble dietary fibres with nutritionally relevant ligands, and will provide insight to the binding mechanisms at a level of detail that has not earlier been achieved.
AACCI Young Scientist Research Award to Laura Nyström
Prof. Laura Nyström receives the 2015 external pageYoung Scientist Research Award of the AACC International in the AACCI Centennial Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.
