[2] Subsequently she took up a position at the Max Planck Institute in Munich (Germany), where she moved to the field of experimental particle physics.

She continued her research at Cornell University (USA) and CERN (Geneva, Switzerland) before being elected professor at ETH Zurich in 1993, where she directed the Institute for Particle Physics from 1997 till 2007.

[7] This discovery was recognised as important experimental input for the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics (François Englert and Peter Higgs).

In 2003, Felicitas Pauss started a new field of research at ETH Zurich: the detection of very high-energy gamma rays from galactic and extragalactic sources with the Cherenkov telescope MAGIC (in La Palma, Spain).

In addition, her group successfully designed, constructed and operated a novel camera concept based on Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) with associated readout electronics in 2011 (FACT).