Two international postdocs at the IUNR : interview with Iwona Dembicz and Jinghui Zhang

PhD students and Postdocs are generally rather rare at the IUNR compared to full universities where these two groups account for a big fraction of the staff. In the academic year 2019/20 two Postdocs have joined the Vegetation Ecology Research Group, Dr. Iwona Dembicz from Poland for 9 ½ months and Dr. Jinghui Zhang from China for a whole year. We have interviewed them to shed a light on why they specifically selected the IUNR for their research stay and how they experienced the institute, the region and Switzerland in general.