Celebrating Women* and Gender Minorities in Physics (05.05.22)

To celebrate the International Day of Women* and Girls* in Science, the students of the Vienna Doctoral School in Physics invite you to participate in a free one-day event that aims to highlight careers and experiences of women* in physics in Austria with a multifaceted scientific programme.

09:30 – 12:00 Workshop on the scientific culture (“Fachkultur”) in Physics led by Prof. Dr. Martina Erlemann

Guest professor for Gender and Science Studies in Physics at the FU Berlin

13:00 Welcoming Words

Member of the VDSP organizing committee, University of Vienna

13:10 Keynote talk

Asst. Prof. Kimberly Modic, IST Austria

Assistant Professor researching Thermodynamics of quantum materials at the microscale, at IST Austria and Elisabeth-Schiemann Fellow

13:40 Coffee Break
13:50 Keynote talk

Prof. Dr. Sofia Kantorovich, University of Vienna

Professor at the Department of Computational and Soft Matter Physics at the University of Vienna, Deputy Head of the Research Platform “Mathematics-Magnetism-Materials” and Associate Professor at Ural Federal University

14:20 Keynote talk

Asst. Prof. Emanuela Bianchi, TU Wien

Reearching soft condensed matter field with focus on colloidal and polymer-based systems at the Institut fur Theoretische Physik , TU Wien

14:50 Poster Session & cake
16:30 Panel discussion with Hanieh Jafarian, Dr. Flavia Corsi, Dr. Karin Hain and, Assoz. Prof. Dr. Paola Ayala

Moderated by Hilde Janssens, PhD – Good Practice Officer at IST Austria

18:00 Announcement Poster Award
18:10 Networking & buffet

We kindly ask you for your understanding and cooperation to make the event as safe as possible for everyone to attend. In particular, participants who wish to attend the event in person will be asked to follow the COVID safety guidelines valid at the time. Details will be provided to all participants before the event. To participate in this event, registration is mandatory – Register here

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