Professor Felicitas Pauss received her PhD degree in Theoretical Physics and
Mathematics at the University of Graz (Austria)
in 1976. In 1978 she started to work as a postdoc at
the Max-Planck Institute (MPI) in Munich (Germany) where
she changed to the field of Experimental Particle Physics. She continued her
research at Cornell University (USA)
and CERN before she was elected professor at ETH Zurich in 1993. From 1997 till 2007 she was
the director of the Institute for Particle Physics of ETH Zurich. Since January 2009 she is in charge
of coordinating CERN’s external relations.