# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katharina-von-salis
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:35:12.910Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katharina-von-salis"
name: "Katharina von Salis"
slug: "katharina-von-salis"
description: "Katharina von Salis Perch-Nielsen is a Swiss geologist and orienteering competitor. She is a retired adjunct professor at the Department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. She retired 1 October 2001. During her scientific career, as a professor in the Micropaleontology at the Geological Institute at ETH Zurich, she was highly engaged in promoting gender equality in sciences and active in fighting to improve the position of girls and women in sciences at Swiss universities and high schools. She was at the origin of the Office of Equal Opportunities for Men and Women that exists at ETH Zurich since 1993."
tagline: "Swiss orienteering competitor and geologist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-10-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.803816
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_Perch-Nielsen"
    title: "Katharina Perch-Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_von_Salis"
    title: "Katharina von Salis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "كاثرينا فون ساليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_von_Salis"
    title: "Katharina von Salis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_von_Salis"
    title: "Katharina von Salis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_Perch-Nielsen"
    title: "Katharina Perch-Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_Perch-Nielsen"
    title: "Katharina Perch-Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_von_Salis_Perch-Nielsen"
    title: "Katharina von Salis Perch-Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4976579"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump