Office of International Administrative Support, OIAS

Senior Advisor資深顧問

Dr. Barbara Kloeckener-Gruissem has been living with her husband Dr. Wilhelm Gruissem in different countries. Barbara was born in Germany and obtained her PhD degree from the University of Colorado (USA) in 1985. She worked at the University of California at Berkeley (USA) until 2000 when she moved to Switzerland and worked at ETH and the University of Zurich from where she retired in 2017. She has been living in Taiwan since 2018. They have two adult children who were raised in California and Switzerland. Living abroad has widened her exposure to different cultures and languages and her appreciation of the support she received from various universities, both as student and scientist. Currently, she is coaching professors, staff, and students at National Chung Hsing University to improve their professional English conversation and publishing skills.