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Alexandra M. Freund
Freund leads international research on how adults set, pursue, shelve and let go of personal goals across the lifespan. Trained at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and formerly at Northwestern, her motivational framework shapes how researchers and practitioners worldwide understand successful ageing, wellbeing and behaviour change in later adulthood.
Fabrizio Gilardi
Gilardi directs the Digital Democracy Lab at Zurich, studying how digital technology and artificial intelligence reshape politics and policy making. His widely cited demonstration that large language models can outperform crowd workers at text annotation changed research practice across the computational social sciences and informs public debates on AI and democracy.
Sara Irina Fabrikant
Fabrikant, a former head of Zurich's Department of Geography and member of the Swiss Science Council, pioneers research on how people read maps and navigate with mobile displays. Her neuroadaptive cartography agenda, connecting eye tracking and brain sensing with map design, guides international standards for navigation systems that protect human spatial learning.