Since 2022, Prof. Janet Hering is Director Emerita of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology (Eawag) and Professor Emerita at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ) and Lausanne (EPFL). Prior to moving to Switzerland in 2007, Prof. Hering was a faculty member at Caltech and UCLA. She is a former Associate Editor of Environmental Science & Technology and member of the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science. She is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and Academia Europaea.  

Prof. Hering was the founding Vice Chair of the ETH Women Professors Forum, serving as Vice Chair from 2012 – 2016 and Chair from 2016 – 2020. In 2015, Prof. Hering received a Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Award from the IUPAC. She co-writes and edits a blog for women in STEMM academic leadership on the Epistimi website. 

Since 2020, she has served as co-chair of SDSN Switzerland. She is a member of the International Advisory Board of the University of Tübingen (since 2022), chair of the evaluation jury for the L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award Switzerland (since 2024), and a member of the SCNAT Chemical Landmark jury (since 2025).