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Introduction
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The review board comprised three senior scientists from different
neuroscientific research areas (Proffs. Menini, Simon, and Jäncke).
Prof. Dr. Anna Menini is currently director of the neurobiological
institute at the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati in
Trieste, Italy. Her main research is the neurobiology of olfaction.
Prof. Dr. Sidney Simon is professor emeritus from the Duke University in
Durham, USA. His lab is well-known for studying the basic
neurobiological underpinnings of gustatory neurobiology. Prof. Lutz
Jäncke is director of the department of neuropsychology at the
University Zurich. He is also scientific director of the University
Research Priority Research Program “Dynamic of Healthy Aging”. All
three members of the review board have extensive experience in
supervising Ph.D. students and in running Ph.D. programs at their
universities.
The evaluation of the review board is based on the several documents
describing the Ph.D. program, a site visit of the neuroscience
institutes from May 9th to 10th in Geneva, and intensive discussion with
the review board. As documents the review board has received a
comprehensive self-evaluation from the neuroscience doctoral school
(Self-Evaluation Report of the Lemanic Neuroscience Doctoral School), a
detailed schedule for the site visit, and several papers explaining the
general policy for such kinds of evaluations.
The review board conducted the site visit in Geneva from May 9th-10th.
During the site visit the review board met various stakeholders of this
program (scientific and managing directors, PIs from different labs,
several Ph.D. students and alumni of the Ph.D. program). In addition,
the review board inspected several labs as well as the new Biotec lab
with the new equipment for conducting cognitive neuroscience and
clinical neuroscience research.
During the breaks between the different site visit sessions, the review
board found enough opportunities and time to discuss and process the
different information. This information has been further elaborated by
mutual information exchange via email and Skype.