Skip to main content

Conference moderation

Stéphanie Jaquet

Scientific journalist

A true child of the seventies, Stéphanie Jaquet was born and raised in Geneva. As a child, she had two big dreams: to find the wreck of the Titanic and to walk on the Moon. Having passed her Greek and Latin A-levels, she spent a year in Indiana, in the United States. Then, being naturally curious, she became a journalist after studying humanities at the University of Geneva (History, English and Photography).

Hired as a photojournalist at Télévision Suisse Romande (RTS) at the start of the 21st century, she produced television and radio reports and wrote articles for RTSinfo.ch. For the past few years, she has taken great pleasure in popularising science, with a particular interest in astrophysics and archaeology. In her spare time, she enjoys travelling and drawing, and still hopes to visit Earth’s natural satellite.

Public talks 2026

What’s so intelligent about the human brain?
Sophie Scott
Commander of the British Empire
Professor at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, United Kingdom

Monday 2 November 2026 - 18:30

The Making of a Memory
Sheena Josselyn
Senior Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada

Tuesday 3 November 2026 - 18:30

The Collective Mind: How Groups Make Decisions
Iain D. Couzin
Professor at Department of Collective Behaviour
Max Plank Institute of Animal Behaviour, and Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Germany

Wednesday 4 November 2026 - 18:30

The Nature of Artificial intelligence 
Melanie Mitchell
Professor at Santa Fe Institute, United States

Thursday 5 November 2026 - 18:30

Intelligence, Consciousness, and the Future of the Mind
Thomas Metzinger
Professor Emeritus at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
German National Academy Leopoldina, Germany

Friday 6 November 2026 - 18:30

Previous editions

2024

Symétries

2022

Les cinq éléments

2021

Le hasard existe-t-il vraiment?

2020

L'art des maths

2018

Gravity, l'attraction universelle

2016

La révolution génomique

2014

Les secrets du soleil

2012

Architecture moléculaire

2010

La révolution quantique

2008

Grandes épidémies: le retour ?

2006

[r]évolution climatique ?

2004

Cellules souches et médecine rénératrice

2002

Aux Portes du Nano-Monde