Our employees from around the world

May we present: our employees from around the world - We at Eawag are particularly proud of the international composition of our employees. Dübendorf and Kastanienbaum are home to researchers, technicians, administrators and apprentices from over 40 different nations. The series with Erfan Haghighi, Fatima Alkhatib, Dimitris Antonakis, Stanley Sam und Xiao Shan Yap was created as part of a photojournalism course that Christian Dinkel is tanking at the MAZ in Lucerne. Erfan Haghighi has experienced the effects of global politics first-hand. In 2016, US President Donald Trump introduced a "Muslim ban" which closed the borders to citizens from Muslim-majority countries, among them Iranians. A few months earlier, Erfan Haghighi, an Iranian by birth, had taken up his postdoc position at MIT, practically setting foot on American soil at the last minute. His wife Maryam was not so lucky.