Summer has arrived in Switzerland!

We enjoyed some sunny days with spritz and good vibes - and a few brave ones even went for a swim!

April 2025

Collage of people enjoying winter activities, including skiing and curling, and dining indoors.

Winter Group Retreat 2025

The Winter Group Retreat in Crans-Montana was a success!

3 days of beautiful nature, great companionship, awesome food, curling (spin manipulation remains a theme)! To a new year of great science and fun together!

January 2025

Group of people at a holiday party with a variety of desserts and a buffet table.

Thanksgiving celebration with LFIM

We celebrated our first Thanksgiving in Switzerland! Teaming up with LFIM (Queen group), we fried the turkey and enjoyed a feast that lasted the entire day! We are so grateful for the wonderful time and the amazing people who made this possible!

November 2024

Group of smiling people sitting at a restaurant table with plates of food; outdoors, a person standing with a bottle and city skyline in the background.

Kinga onboarding and celebration

We are so back in 2024! Group lunch to celebrate Kinga joining us as part of her Master’s at Oxford, and she immediately got great news to celebrate reg. her upcoming PhD at Imperial College with Aron as well!

January 2024

Collage of group outdoor activities, cooking, and gathering indoors with friends.

Group Winter Outing!

included hiking, Feuerzangenbowle, cookie baking and so much more… we celebrated a year full of great science and lots of fun!

December 2023

Group of eight people smiling, one person being playfully held up horizontally by others, standing in front of a brick wall.

Rowland Holiday Party

Note: Sascha did not come up with the whole lifting idea…

December 2023

Collage of three dining scenes with groups of well-dressed people enjoying meals together in restaurant settings.

MRS Fall Meeting 2023

lots of talks by our group means lots of food needed as fuel!

November 2023

Collage of two men smiling, one wearing a "My First Thanksgiving" bib, next to a Thanksgiving meal with turkey, ham, cranberry sauce, macaroni and cheese, green beans, and a roasted turkey in a pan.

Thanksgiving = Friendsgiving

November 2023

Halloween 2023, Feldmann Lab at the Rowland Institute

Halloween at the Rowland!

October 2023

Not so formal Friday in the Feldmann Lab

Formal Friday! (except for Sascha…)

And we also welcome Ben to the group!

September 2023

Group photo and baked goods to celebrate Langa

Welcome to & birthday bagels for Langa!

Langa’s onboarding in the group coincided with her birthday -> birthday bagels deluxe (and pastries)!

June 2023

Inter-group social with the Aizenberg Lab

Inter-Group Happy Hour!

Social with our friends from Joanna Aizenberg’s Lab after a great talk by Matteo Mitrano!

May 2023

St Patrick's Day Social

St. Patrick’s Day

What better way to celebrate Marcel joining our team than having a joint group social with American Pub food? Lot’s of fun with friends from the Reece and Aizenberg Labs!

March 2023

Holiday party at the Rowland Institute

Winter Holiday Party

Our group had a blast at our holiday party, enjoying fantastic food, drinks and company!

6 December 2022

Two men smiling indoors, one holding a wooden object, with other people in the background in a living room setting.

Joint group BBQ

…towards the end of which Sascha & Winald get to know Servantes, the friendly corn snake

16 October 2022

Group fun at the Rowland Reunion symposium!

We hosted visitors from across the globe, reconnected with old friends and made many new ones!

1 October 2022

Four men standing indoors, dressed in business casual attire, with trees in the background.
Group of people sitting around a table outdoors, smiling, with plates of food, on a patio overlooking a cityscape with river and industrial towers.
Group of people in a library setting, smiling and holding drinks at a social event, with bookshelves in the background.
Three people smiling in a room with a table of pastries and spreads, and a foosball table in the background.

Birthday bagels! … and pastry!

19 September 2022

Group of four men dining at a restaurant with plates of food and drinks on the table.

Thai dinner to celebrate the arrival of our postdocs Antti & Zach!

12 September 2022

Winald onboarding with pizza

Pizza party to celebrate Winald joining the group!

3 August 2022