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Simone de Montmollin

Simone de Montmollin is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Simone de Montmollin rather than just read about it. In short: Simone de Montmollin (née Götz; born 20 July 1968 in Lausanne) is a Swiss politician, businesswoman, and oenologist. She began her career in the medical field, working for the European Society of Cardiology before founding her own medical communications company, Götz & Cie Cardio Diffusion, in 1991.

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Reference excerpt

Simone de Montmollin (née Götz; born 20 July 1968 in Lausanne) is a Swiss politician, businesswoman, and oenologist. She began her career in the medical field, working for the European Society of Cardiology before founding her own medical communications company, Götz & Cie Cardio Diffusion, in 1991. De Montmollin left the medical field to become an oenologist, and served as the director of the Swiss Union of Oenologists, worked as a communications specialist at Agroscope, and served as chairwoman for the 42nd World Congress of Vine and Wine in Geneva. In 2008 she was elected, as an Independent, to the Geneva Constituent Assembly. She later joined FDP.The Liberals and was elected to the Grand Council of Geneva, serving from 2013 to 2018. In her last year on the council, she was the president of the Committee for Environment, Agriculture, and Management. In 2019, de Montmollin was elected to the National Council, where she is a member of the Committee for Science, Education and Culture and the Delegation for Relations with the French Parliament.

Early life and family De Montmollin was born Simone Götz in Lausanne on 20 July 1968. Her father was from Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Germany and moved to Switzerland in the 1950s. De Montmollin's grandfather, a German soldier, was killed on the Eastern Front during World War II. Her mother, who is Swiss, is from Sigriswil. She is the youngest of four children and grew up in Mies. Her father died when she was twelve.

Career

Medical field and oenology De Montmollin started an apprenticeship at a pharmacy when she was 16 years old. She studied business management and management in the medical field in Lausanne. Upon completing her studies, she lived in England before finding employment with the European Society of Cardiology. In 1991, she founded a medical communication company called Götz & Cie Cardio Diffusion, which she managed until 1996. In 2001, she graduated with an oenology degree from the École d'ingénieurs de Changins. In 2003, she was appointed as chief of the editorial staff at Objectif, the Changins Alumni Journal. From 2003 to 2019, de Montmollin was the director of the Swiss Union of Oenologists and worked as a communications specialist at Agroscope from 2014 to 2017. In 2019, she was the chairwoman of the organizing committee for the 42nd World Congress of Vine and Wine in Geneva. As a freelance oenologist, de Montmollin works with private and public Swiss and international organizations on viniculture projects.

Politics In 2008, de Montmollin was elected as an Independent to the Geneva Constituent Assembly, where she worked on introducing a constitutional article on agriculture. In 2013, she was elected as, a member of FDP.The Liberals, to the Grand Council of Geneva. She was a committee member for Environment, Agriculture, and Management, serving as the committee's president from 2017 to 2018. She also was a member of the Social Commission. De Montmollin was re-elected to the council again in 2018 with 21,682 votes. In 2019, de Montmollin was elected, receiving 32,402 votes, to the National Council. She was elected alongside Christian Lüscher. She is a member of the Committee for Science, Education and Culture and of the delegation for the relations with the French Parliament. She supported the abolition of the stamp duty tax, which is required by Swiss companies when they issue shares or bonds to increase equity.

Personal life She is married to Alexandre de Montmollin, an oenologist, and has two daughters. Her husband's family is part of the Swiss nobility originally from Auvernier in the Canton of Neuchâtel.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Simone de Montmollin

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Simone de Montmollin claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Simone de Montmollin before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Simone de Montmollin ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Simone de Montmollin

In research: Simone de Montmollin appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Simone de Montmollin in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Simone de Montmollin is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1968 births, 21st-century Swiss women politicians, De Montmollin family, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Simone de Montmollin outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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