10.08.22 | AcademiaNet was created as a way to address the gender imbalance among senior academics. Looking back over the past decade, what’s changed? We spoke to Prof. Regina Palkovits, one of our first members, to find out.
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05.08.22 | The Austrian astrophysicist was honoured for her "outstanding contributions" to space research.
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25.07.22 | Prof Elin Bjarnegård from Uppsala University in Sweden researches gender in politics – for example, she wants to understand the role of masculinities in war and peace, and what happens when political violence is directed at women. We connected with her for a chat about her recent projects on sexual corruption and gendered election violence.
22.07.22 | She joins four other AcademiaNet members on DFG’s Executive Committee, incl. DFG President Katja Becker
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18.07.22 | Chosen for their ‘outstanding achievements’, the researchers will join a select community of leading life scientists
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15.07.22 | The economist will receive a Doctorate of Letters for contributions to society
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27.06.22 | The project is coming up with solutions to debilitating summer heat in cities, in collaboration with people that live there
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24.06.22 | Madeline Lancaster is known as the inventor of brain organoids, also called ‘mini brains’. We caught up with her for a conversation about how we can study psychiatric conditions in a tiny clump of cells, and what exactly it is about the human brain that sets it apart from that of our closest relatives.
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15.06.22 | The chemist was chosen for her work on oxygen-sensing enzymes
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03.06.22 | Sandra Knapp, Susan Lea, Maria Leptin and Irene Miguel-Aliaga have all made “outstanding contributions” to their respective scientific fields or science as a whole
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