• Grew up in Riehen near Basel, Switzerland
• Studies of physics, mathematics and astronomy at Universities of Basel and Geneva
• 1960 PhD in experimental physics at University of Basel with Prof. Dr. Paul Huber
• 1965 Married Andres Hanspeter Zschokke (1930) Dr. iur., citizen of Aarau and Malans
• 1974 Appointment to Professor, Chair of Applied Physics at University of Basel / First female professor in physics at the University of Basel
• 1979 – 1981 President of Swiss Physical Society SPG
• 1988 – 1992 President of „Koordinationskommission für Universitätsfragen“ at Department of Education Basel-Stadt
• 1993 – 1996 President of Section IV for National Research Programmes NRP/SPP of Swiss National Science Foundation
• 1997 – 2002 Member of the ETH council
• 2000 – 2003 President of PRODEX programme committee of the Federal Committee for Space Affairs
• 2005 – 2009 President of the PRIX ZONTA jury
• 2006 – 2011 President of the TREUBEL Foundation of the „Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel“
• 1995 – 2013 President of the „Zschokke-Haus der Studentenschaft Basel“ Foundation

Organic semiconductors, nonlinear optics, electrical and optical properties of molecular crystals, solid solutions, etc…

Author and co-author of over 100 scientific publications in international journals