Newcomers Guide

The Newcomers Guide is a VMB initiative to help new D-BSSE members get acquainted with their new environment. It contains lots of useful information about working at D-BSSE and life in Basel, which will also be useful for the D-BSSE community in general.

Please take a look, navigate through the sections and locate interesting topics for you! We have put a lot of effort on generating this resource and we hope you will greatly benefit from it.

The Newcomers Guide will need to be periodically updated. Since this is a community effort, we would greatly appreciate if you to provide some feedback - corrections, new sections or any other suggestions will always be welcome! You can also help your peers by contributing to the next versions.

This document could not have been possible without the voluntary contribution of our fellow PhD students and postdocs:

Original section writing
Anja Cathrin Gumpinger
Beichen Gao
Fátima Sanchís-Calleja
Fides Lea Zenk
Judith Johanna Jaekel
Nina Blaimschein
Olivier Belli
Selen Manioglu
Simon Höllerer

Proofreading and feedback
Akanksha Jain
Anna Mei
Antoine Zwaans
Ashley Maynard
Roman Vetter

We would also like to thank and acknowledge the help from Carolin Arndt Foppa (useful comments, proofreading and materials) and Andrea Huber-Brösamle (proofreading and approval of contents).

2022 - Update by the Media Team (Simona Baghai, Nico Borgsmüller) and Fátima Sanchís-Calleja
2023 (April) - Update by Simona Baghai, the Department Administration and the FaST team
2024 (September) - Update led by Xenia Ficht