’I'm fascinated by the way humans learn’

Tanja Käser, recipient of the Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching. Alain Herzog 2023 EPFL Tanja Käser joined EPFL in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. Three years on, she's teaching a class of 600 students and is the recipient of the 2023 Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching. When Tanja Käser landed the role of tenure track assistant professor at EPFL, she never imagined she'd spend her first day in the job alone, working from a makeshift desk in the corner of her bedroom. That was in May 2020, at the height of the pandemic. "It was strange in this situation to tell myself that I was now a professor at EPFL," she smiles. "I didn't meet my new colleagues face-to-face for several months." That fall, she taught her first classes online.