Space Café

The Space Café Concept

Do you work in the Space sector or are you simply passionate about space and would like to know more? Space Cafés are informal events where young researchers have the opportunity to meet, discuss and build a solid network within the space community. The organizers themselves are all junior researchers, associated with UZH Space. They work in different research areas (e.g., astrophysics, remote sensing, life science), but have one key aspect in common: space.

Space is by design a very innovative sector, where we have the chance and need to push well beyond our boundaries, testing alternative solutions and increasing our knowledge, with many important applications also on Earth and on our everyday life. 

As in every field, it is important to build a solid network since the beginning of your career. However, in academia this network is too often developed only around the specific topic the PhD candidates work on and is generally restricted to academia. This can constitute a limitation in a career path, which is almost never linear.

Through this Space Café event series, you will have the opportunity to meet researchers from different fields and experts from the industry sector, to expand your horizons beyond academia, with direct contact to the commercial world, and to see how your work and research can be used and translated into the real and applied world.

Check out out past Space Café events at the UZH Space Hub archive.

The Origins of Space Café

This interdisciplinary project was funded in 2021 and 2022 by the UZH Graduate Campus. In 2022, the events series was organised by Dr. Valentina Tamburello (postdoc at the Remote Sensing Laboratories), Jacqueline Bannwart (PhD student in the group of Glaciology and Geomorphodynamics), Marco Cilibrasi (PhD student at the UZH Computational Science Institute) and Irina Kempf (PhD student in the Medical Physics and Radiation Research group), with the precious help of Jasmin Kesselring (PhD student in the group of Remote Sensing of Water Systems). Space Café is currently funded through the Department of Astrophysics.

Get involved and share your research!

We are looking for PhD-students from the UZH Space Hub Network to define and realize the next events. Contact us if you are interested, this is a great opportunity to grow your network!