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Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy ETH-WPF is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Contact us at if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you. By using this site or/and our services, you consent to the Processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy. Table of…
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Rapid Response Team (RRT) The Executive Board has put together a team of members who are available to give advice and support to all members in need of a response quickly to a pressing situation. Whether it is an unexpected complication or a new unfamiliar situation that arises, the team is here to offer their…
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Best Practices for Female Faculty
by American Physical Society www.aps.org, Sept. 2013. PDF Best Practices for Female Faculty
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Death by a Thousand Cuts
Women are being forced out of careers in science and engineering, not because they can’t juggle babies and Bunsen burners, but because they’re discouraged at every turn by thousands of small, sexist moments that make them feel unwelcome and unworthy. Reddit interim CEO Ellen Pao, who just lost a major sexdiscrimination lawsuit against her former…
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Results of studies by Fraunhofer Institute
At the afternoon program of the ETH Women Professors’ Forum’s General Assembly, Prof. Dr. Martina Schraudner presented the results of her latest studies. The presentation was followed with great interest and discussed by the present members and the invited guests. With the courtesy Martina Schraudner we publish two of her studies: PDF “Exzellenz in wissenschaftlichen…
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The Big Idea: STEM, in a day, with the RSA
“We’ve helped girls meet a diverse set of women working across a diversity of roles in STEM and in doing so have helped break stereotypes.” by Anne-Marie Imafidon in: Royal Society of Arts Fellowship, Blog 02.06.2014
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Mastering Gender in Research Performance, Context and Outcomes
The Seventh EU Gender Summit, Berlin, November 6 – 7, 2015, focused on the topic: Mastering Gender in Research Performance, Context and Outcomes Berlin was the 2015 venue, because the German government recently approved legislation that requires major companies to allocate 30% of non-executive board positions to women. The 2015 Gender Summit examined new research…
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Prof. Ursula Keller nominated for the European Inventor Award 2018
Congratulations to Prof. Ursula Keller, founder of the Women Professors Forum, who has been nominated for the European Inventor Award 2018 in the category “Lifetime achievement”. (https://www.epo.org/news-issues/news/2018/20180424.html). The Awards winners (among three nominees per category) will be announced on 7 June. This nomination acknowledges Ursi’s revolutionary work on ultra-fast lasers and has been featured in…
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Point of view of the ETH WPF President
Columns by Prof. Ursula Keller In a series of columns in the news section “In person” of ETH Zurich, Prof. Ursula Keller, the President of the ETH Women Professors Forum, outlined central points concerning women professors. Find all the columns here to download. The Column “Women on the playing field” is co-authered by Vice-President of the ETH…
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New appointments of women faculty
Appointments at ETH Zurich Dr Athina Anastasaki (*1988), currently Research Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Polymeric Materials. Athina Anastasaki conducts research on polymer nanoparticles whose shape can be controlled for use in biomedical applications. Her work also focuses on biomimetic nanostructured materials which regulate the…
