Irina Simmen and Corina Oertli join the ESC as Communications and Events Managers
The Energy Science Center (ESC) is very pleased to welcome Irina Simmen and Corina Oertli to the executive team. Irina joined the ESC in August 2024, Corina in September 2024. Both, Irina and Corina, support the Outreach Team with communication activities and event organisation at the ESC.
Before joining the ESC, Irina Simmen studied Political Science at ETH in Zurich. She has several years of experience in journalism, both print and TV, where she last worked for the news broadcast «10 vor 10» at SRF. Afterwards Irina Simmen was the Head of Swiss market of external page politik.ch.
After her studies in corporate communications and journalism at ZHAW, Corina Oertli worked in ETH Zurich’s corporate communications department, and did marketing and communications as well as event organization for the Cybathlon. After that, she changed to the University of Zurich to an online teaching and digital exams project. Besides, Corina teaches corporate communications at ZHAW.
At the ESC, as Communications and Events Managers, Irina and Corina support the Outreach Team with various communication activities and event organisation, such as the upcoming Energy Week @ ETH 2024 or the Summer School 2025.