Sylvia Holla

Cultural sociologist and researcher at Atria

Dr. Sylvia Holla (1986) is a cultural sociologist and researcher at Atria, Institute on gender equality an women’s history. At Atria she designs and conducts research on gender and sexual (in)equality, and issues of diversity in domains of cultural representation, law, social services, labor and education. In the “Working Future” alliance, a joint project between, Atria, Emancipator, NVR, and VHTO, and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, her research focusses on gender stereotyping in education, the labor market and in cultural representations. She specializes in conducting qualitative sociological research, more specifically, in ethnographic research methods of in-depth interviewing and participant observation.

Sarah Vader

Gender expert at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands

After finishing her master degree in Comparative Women’s Studies at Utrecht University, Sarah Vader moved to Germany to obtain her PhD at the University of Duisburg-Essen on the topic of “The Feminization of Medicine”. Ever since, her work and research interests lie in matters concerning gender, diversity and health. Sarah Vader is currently working as a gender expert at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands.

Paula Wennberg

Centre for Distance-spanning Technology, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

Paula Wennberg is founder and Manager of Gender Contact Point, a collaboration and resource platform based at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. She has 20 years’ experience of regional, national and European collaborative projects and has developed a great number of gender equality and diversity tools and methods promoting inclusive innovation and research. She is currently the coordinator of the Gender Smart Arena project with partners from IT companies and municipalities. The project supports strategic business activities as well as gender mainstreaming processes of academia, industry and surrounding society.

Lynda Hardman

Manager Research & Strategy at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

Prof. Lynda Hardman is Manager Research & Strategy at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and Professor of Multimedia Discourse Interaction at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She was the president of Informatics Europe, IE, (2016-2017) and is the current past president. The mission of IE is to foster the development of quality research and teaching in informatics within Europe. Prof. Hardman is the current director of Amsterdam Data Science , whose mission is to facilitate and develop a Data Science and AI ecosystem in the Amsterdam region that spans academia, industry and society. Her own research investigates improving human information access in applications using the ever-expanding "linked open data cloud" and using visualisations to improve the understanding the results of automated data analysis.

Veerle Dam

Post-doctoral researcher at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam and Sanquin Blood Bank in Amsterdam

Veerle Dam is a Post-doctoral researcher at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam and Sanquin Blood Bank in Amsterdam, where she is setting up a biobank including repeatedly measured blood samples from blood donors. Veerle completed her PhD at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht. Her thesis was entitled ‘This is a man’s world… Cardiovascular disease in women: female-specific risk factors and risk prediction’. She has a master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology and in Health Sciences.

Tony Maples

Writer and Director of ‘#MetooAcademia: The Learning Curve’

Tony Maples has a degree in English from Cambridge University. He worked as an actor in the UK with, among others, the Lindsay Kemp Company and Ken Campbell. He moved to the Netherlands in 1980 and in 1984 co-founded Pandemonia Science Theatre. He has worked as a presentation coach in many Dutch universities, and as English-language editor of NWO grant applications. He is currently a freelance writer and theatre director. For Het Acteursgenootschap he wrote and directed several plays, including ‘#MetooAcademia: The Learning Curve ‘.

Michal Boneh-Mizrahi

Project Manager at the Office of Gender Equity in Tel Aviv University

In 2001 I got my first academic degree (BSW) in Social Work from the University of Haifa, Israel. For 14 years, I worked as a Social Worker with children and youth at risk. Working with young girls I became aware of the effects of sexual harassment and abuse, and of the gender biases which affect these girls’ lives and decided to look further into gender issues. In 2015 I received my MA degree in Gender Studies from Tel Aviv University (TAU). For the last 4 years I have been working as a Project Manager at the Office of Gender Equity in TAU. Our main aim is to promote gender equity both inside and out of the University. I believe our role is much wider than only supporting female students and scientists. Academia plays an important role in changing both cultural and social trends in the world. TAU is the largest University in Israel. As such, it should play a pivotal role in leading our society to a more equalitarian path.

Melanie Peters

Member of the Netherlands Commission for Unesco and  Director of the Rathenau Instituut

Dr. ir. Melanie Peters is member of the Netherlands Commission for Unesco, that is mandated by the government to implement the work of Unesco in the Netherlands. She is also director of the Rathenau Instituut, a leading policy-oriented national research institute in the Netherlands that informs the general public and the government alike on STI policies and science-society relations. Melanie Peters has a broad background in science, industry and the public sector, combined with ample experience of national and international politics and social relations. Dr. Peters studied food technology at Wageningen University, and became a certified toxicologist at Imperial College, London, where she was also awarded a PhD in biochemistry. She worked as a scientific researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, and led a research team at Shell Research and Technology Centre Amsterdam. She has held various positions combining science, policy, politics and social issues at the Ministry of Agriculture, the Dutch Consumer Association, and as director of Utrecht University’s Studium Generale scientific discussion platform.

Susanne Täuber

Associate Professor at the University of Groningen

Susanne Täuber is Associate Professor at the University of Groningen in the department of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior. Her research focuses on gaps between policy and actual progress, factors causing them, and possible remedies. She applies her insights to persisting inequalities related to gender and public health. As board member of the Young Academy Groningen, she is actively engaged in increasing diversity and inclusion at her university.

Valerie Dahl

Research assistant at the University of Muenster, Germany

Valerie Dahl currently works as a research assistant at the University of Muenster, Germany, where she is also pursuing her PhD in sociology. Her main research areas are Sociology of Work, Organisations and Knowledge, as well as Science and Technology Studies and Gender Studies.

Joyce van der Velde

Senior Project Leader HRM Wageningen University & Wageningen Research (WUR)

Joyce van der Velde, MA, Corporate HRM of Wageningen University & Wageningen Research (WUR), is Senior Project Leader HRM, responsible for Organisation & Development, Internationalisation and Gender Policies, since June 2015, and WUR core team member of GenderSMART, EU-Horizon 2020- no 824546 since Jan 2019.She is graduated in management studies.

Carine Stroet

Program officer at The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw)

As program officer at The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw), Carine Stroet is jointly responsible for the daily execution and overall development of the national Gender and Health Knowledge Program since its inception in May 2016. This 4-year research and innovation program aims to (1) minimize the knowledge gap regarding differences between women and men in health and health care through research and innovation and (2) integrate adequate attention to sex and gender considerations in all health research. Together with the program manager, she develops and facilitates funding opportunities, monitors the progress of funded projects and the program as a whole, builds partnerships within and outside of ZonMw and co-organizes workshops and meetings on sex and gender in health research. She is also ZonMw lead on the Diversity in Research Content track of the NWO/ZonMw Diversity working group.

Nicole van Kesteren

Researcher at TNO "Child Health"

Nicole van Kesteren (PhD) has been working as a researcher at TNO "Child Health" since 2006. She has extensive experience in setting up and supervising applied large-scale research in which collaboration in and with practice is central. She is involved in a number of studies in which the systematic and planned development of health-promoting interventions is central. She has specific expertise in the area of: (1) explaining behavior based on theory and research; (2) applying behavior change methodologies that are appropriate to the context and target group; and (3) anticipation of implementation with a role for intermediate users. Within this approach she focuses specifically on gender, cultural sensitivity and target group participation.

Heisook Lee

Principal Research Fellow, Center for Gendered Innovations in Science and Technology Research(GISTeR) and Professor Emeritus, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

Having served as the founding president of the Center for WISET (Women in Science, Engineering and Technology) until Mach 2016, Professor Heisook Lee moved to GISTeR to focus on Gendered Innovations research in STEM fields. Professor Lee was a co-organizer of the Gender Summit Asia Pacific in 2015. She received her B.S. M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics from Ewha Womans University, Korea, the University of British Columbia and Queen’s University, Canada, in 1971, 1974 and 1978 respectively. She worked at Universitat Regensburg, Germany, as a postdoctoral fellow, and was later appointed Professor of Mathematics at Ewha Womans University in Seoul Korea. Professor Lee was Dean of the College of Natural Sciences, and Dean of Research affairs at Ewha between 1997 and 2001. She served as Dean of the Graduate School from 2006 to 2008. Professor Lee served as the founding Editor of Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society from 1986 to 1988 and as Chief Editor of the Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society from 1994 to 1996.
She also served as the founding director of the WISE Center in Korea between 2001 and 2010. HRD in STEM fields has been her main research interest. She also served as president of the Korea Federation of Women Scientists associations from 2006 to 2007. She was a member of Presidential Advisory Council on Science & Technology and National Science &Technology Commission.

Daphne Suzanne van Casteren

PhD candidate Neurology - LUMC Leiden / EMC Rotterdam

Cécile Gréboval

Programme Manager, Gender Mainstreaming, Gender Equality Advisor, Gender Equality Division of the Council of Europe

 Cécile Gréboval has devoted her professional career to the promotion of gender equality and women’s rights at the European and international level. She has been working in the Gender Equality Division of the Council of Europe since September 2015. Cécile is in charge of the integration of a gender equality perspective in all activities and sectors of the Council of Europe. She was also very involved in supporting the drafting of the Recommendation on Preventing and Combating Sexism adopted by the Committee of Ministers in March 2019. Cécile previously worked for 18 years for the Brussels-based European Women’s Lobby, the largest European umbrella network of women’s associations, including for 3 years as Secretary General.

Lisa Harvey-Smith

Australian Government’s Women in STEM Ambassador and a Professor of Practice in Science Communication at The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia

Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith is the Australian Government’s Women in STEM Ambassador and a Professor of Practice in Science Communication at The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. In her role as the Women in STEM Ambassador, Lisa is responsible for increasing the participation of women and girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) studies and careers in Australia. She works across academia, education and training and industry to increase visibility and drive cultural and social change for gender equity in STEM. Lisa is an award-winning astronomer with research interests in the birth and death of stars and supermassive black holes and serves on the Australian Space Agency’s Advisory Group. She previously worked on the mega-telescope project the Square Kilometre Array – a continent-spanning next-generation radio telescope that will survey billions of years of cosmic history. Lisa is a TEDx speaker, has appeared on stage with Apollo astronauts including Buzz Aldrin and is author of the popular science book When Galaxies Collide

Cristina Mancigotti

Programme coordinator and researcher at UNU-MERIT/Maastricht Graduate School of Governance

Cristina Mancigotti is programme coordinator and researcher at UNU-MERIT/Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (MGSoG). Cristina works mainly on higher education, capacity building, and gender. She is currently involved in the Community of Learning for Africa project, and coordinates the Evidence-Based Policy Research Methods course and the Dual Career Training Programme GPAC². Cristina holds a MSc in Public Policy and Human Development from UNU-MERIT/MGSoG, with a specialisation in Migration studies.

Mathias Wullum Nielsen

Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Dr. Nielsen is an associate professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a sociologist by training and holds a Ph.D. in social science from Aarhus University. His research focuses on gender in science, including how gender diversity is linked to knowledge outcomes. His Ph.D. dissertation, entitled “New and Persistent Gender Equality Challenges in Academia” was defended in 2015, after which he undertook postdoctoral research in Gendered Innovations at Stanford University. He is currently a part of the European Commission’s “Gendered Innovations 2” Expert Group. Dr. Nielsen has published numerous papers on the topic of gender in science, including pieces in Nature Human Behaviour, PNAS, and Research Policy.

Sabine Oertelt-Prigione

Professor of sex and gender sensitive medicine at Radboud University in Nijmegen

Sabine Oertelt-Prigione, MD MScPH, PhD is a professor of sex and gender sensitive medicine at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, a senior researcher at the Institute of Legal Medicine of Charité in Berlin, Germany, a coach, an organizational consultant and a gender equity activist. The work of her team addresses three aspects of sex and gender-sensitive healthcare: a) advocacy (both in teaching, training and interaction with the public), b) implementation into clinical and research practice and c) organizational change. Next to traditional research methods, they are investigating how design-based methods, innovative organizational design and participation can accelerate implementation.

Mangala Srinivas

Chair, Young Academy of Europe; Group Leader Radboud UMC; CSO, Cenya Imaging BV

Mangala started her career in research at the National University of Singapore, before completing her Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University (USA). She is a Group Leader at the Dept. of Tumor Immunology, at the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her work focuses on agents for in vivo imaging. Mangala's early work helped establish the field of 19F MRI for quantitative in vivo cell tracking, including the first paper on the topic. More recently, her group works on customisable nanoparticles for imaging and advanced personalised medicine applications, such as cell therapies.​ Mangala is CSO of her spin-off company, Cenya Imaging; and Chair (Outgoing) of the Young Academy of Europe.

Hanneke Takkenberg

Clinical epidemiologist and professor of clinical decision making in cardiothoracic interventions at the department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery in Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam

Prof. Dr Hanneke Takkenberg is a clinical epidemiologist and professor of clinical decision making in cardiothoracic interventions at the department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery in Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam. Her research focuses on clinical decision making and patient empowerment, with a specific focus on male-female differences. Gender diversity and diversity & inclusion as a tool to improve research and achieve an inclusive scientific community are cornerstones in her past work as Chief Diversity Officer at Erasmus University (2015-2018) and current position as Diversity Officer of the Erasmus University Medical Center. Professor Takkenberg is chair of the board of the Dutch Network of Women Professors (LNVH) and advisory board member for Erasmus Center for Women and Organisations. In 2018 she received the Els Borst oeuvre award from the Dutch Female Doctors Society (VNVA) for her ongoing efforts to improve the position of women in medicine and academia.

Rachel Erhard

Senior faculty in the Tel Aviv University School of Education

Professor Rachel Erhard is a senior faculty in the Tel Aviv University School of Education. She has years of both practical and research experience in adolescent counseling and youth psychology. She is a social activist who has been dealing with disadvantaged groups and works to advance gender equity and social justice. She served as the commissioner for the prevention of sexual harassment at Tel Aviv University from 2010-2016. In this role, she established the national bsafe Forum for sexual harassment free campuses. In addition Prof. Erhard served as the University president counsellor for Gender Equity. For now she is the head of a national program sponsored by the authority of higher education of developing leadership of women researches.

Clemens Striebing

Senior Researcher with a focus on organization research at the Center for Responsible Research and Innovation (CeRRI) of Fraunhofer IAO in Germany

Clemens Striebing is a Senior Researcher with a focus on organization research at the Center for Responsible Research and Innovation (CeRRI) of Fraunhofer IAO in Germany. He studied political science and public law at the Free University of Berlin and received his doctorate in organizational sociology from the University of Heidelberg. At Fraunhofer CeRRI, Clemens Striebing deals with problems of gender equality in the innovation system, organizational cultures and the transfer and exploitation of research outputs. His experience includes participation in numerous national and international research projects for public and private clients.

Margreet van der Burg

Senior University Lecturer and Researcher in Gender studies of food, agricultural and rural research and development

Dr Margreet van der Burg, Social Sciences, KTI, Wageningen University, is Senior University Lecturer and Researcher in Gender studies of food, agricultural and rural research and development since 2002, and WUR Daily Project leader GenderSMART, EU-Horizon 2020- no 824546 since Jan 2019. She has been active in the field of (rural) gender studies, with special focus on farm women and gender in rural and agricultural development (programming) processes since 1984. Gender is considered in intersection with other social dimensions A.o. main author of Vrouwen, Wageningen en de Wereld. Wetenschap, studie en loopbaan, 1918-2003, (Women, Wageningen and the World. Science, study and career at Wageningen Agricultural College/ University) 1918-2003, 2003, Verloren, Hilversum (255 pp).

Maartje Ridder

Lecturer and researcher at the department of Medical Humanities of the Amsterdam UMC

Maartje Ridder has a background in health sciences and transdisciplinary research methods. She works as lecturer and researcher at the department of Medical Humanities of the Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands. Her participatory research projects are focused on topics related to intersectionality, gender and diversity to enhance equity in health research and health care. 

Jan Peters

Founding member of the EU Helsinki Group and the UK National Expert for Women in Science

Jan Peters was a founding member of the EU Helsinki Group and the UK National Expert for Women in Science from 1999 until 2002. She has authored several important reports on women and intersectionality in science, engineering and technology. She was made an MBE for services to women in engineering and science in the 2017 New Year Honours List. In 2018 she authored the UCL and Royal Academy of Engineering report on Designing inclusive engineering education. Jan holds the role of Visiting Professor at the Open University on transforming engineering cultures and consults on inclusion across higher education. 

Susan Picavet

Project leader of the longitudinal Doetinchem Cohort Study and senior researcher on public health themes

Dr. Susan Picavet (HSJ) is project leader of the longitudinal Doetinchem Cohort Study and senior researcher on public health themes like healthy ageing, musculoskeletal health problems (e.g. pain and osteoarthritis), multimorbidity, disability, physical activity, and sex- SES- & generation-differences in health and  life style. Since 1996 she works at the RIVM. She coauthored 90 peer reviewed papers

Naomi Ellemers

Social and organizational psychologist, and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University

Naomi Ellemers is a social and organizational psychologist, and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University. Her research combines experimental methodologies examining brain activity and stress with observations of people in the workplace. Her aim is to understand how group affiliations impact on individual behaviours, in particular in relation to diversity and inclusion, integrity, and work ethics. As a founding member of Athena’s Angels , and the Netherlands Inclusiveness Monitor, she applies her scientific knowledge to target issues relating to diversity in organizations and society. She is recipient of substantial grants and prestigious awards, including a Spinoza grant and a Gravitation grant from the Netherlands science foundation (NWO), and senior career awards from the American Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), as well as the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA).

Peter van den Besselaar

Full professor of organization science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Peter van den Besselaar is currently a full professor of organization science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research interests cover science policy studies, research evaluation, bibliometrics, and in big data for social research. One of his main topics over the last years is the relation between gender and science. His newest (H2020) project GRANteD focuses on gender bias in grant allocation and on the effects of grants on academic careers. He is author of more than 250 publications.

Tamar Brosh

Professor in Dental Biotechnology, Sexual Harassments Prevention Commissioner Tel Aviv University, Israel

Sieta de Vries

Post-doctoral researcher at the department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)

Sieta de Vries is a post-doctoral researcher at the department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) with a research focus on Adverse Drug Reactions. Within this theme, her research topics are on patient perspectives and experiences, risk communication, personalized drug treatment, gender and sex differences, and psychological aspects of drug therapy. The work she presents during the Gender Summit is a result from a ZonMw funded project on gender differences in adverse drug reactions.

Angelika Bader

Teamleader of the Women’s Health Centre at the University Hospital Innsbruck, Teacher in Gender Medicine & Diversity at the Medical School, Innsbruck

Bader, Angelika, Dr.in med., General Medicine, Teamleader of the Women’s Health Centre at the University Hospital Innsbruck, Teacher in Gender Medicine & Diversity at the Medical School, Innsbruck.

Belle Derks

Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at Utrecht University

Belle Derks is professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on how stereotypes and discrimination affect the well-being and work outcomes of women and ethnic minorities. For the Dutch Network of Women Professors she uncovered the size of the gender pay gap in Dutch Academia, as well as sizeable differences in other resources allocated to male and female researchers in the Netherlands. Other research projects focus on questions such as: how do masculine organisational cultures affect opportunities for women?; why do women sometimes turn into Œqueen bees¹ on their way to the top?, and how do gender roles in society affect women and men who combine work and family?

Paul Boyle

Vice-Chancellor Elect at Swansea University, UK

Professor Paul Boyle has recently been appointed as Vice-Chancellor Elect at Swansea University. Prior to this he was President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester. Previously, Paul was Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the UK’s largest funding agency for social science research; the International Champion of Research Councils UK, with responsibility for international strategy on behalf of all seven UK research councils; and President of Science Europe, representing over 50 European funding agencies.

Greta Byrum

Co-Director of the Digital Equity Laboratory at the New School for Social Research

Greta Byrum reimagines the way we design, build, control, and govern communications systems. As Co-Director of the Digital Equity Laboratory at the New School for Social Research, she builds digital justice through applied research and policy strategy. The Lab focuses on smart city technologies as well as digital access and safety infrastructures. Previously Byrum founded and led the Resilient Communities program at New America, where she developed and led Resilient Networks NYC, an initiative bringing training, tools, and equipment for storm-hardened mesh WiFi to five neighborhoods in NYC's flood plains. She holds an MS in Urban Planning from Columbia University, and MA in Comparative Literature from Brown University, and and MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and serves on the board of the Metropolitan New York Library Council.

Fredrik Bondestam

Director of the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research at the University of Gothenburg

Fredrik Bondestam is currently the Director of the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research at the University of Gothenburg (www.genus.gu.se). He holds a PhD in Sociology (2004, Uppsala University) with a focus on gender equality and gender mainstreaming in academia. His research focus is on higher education in various respects, primarily organizational change, feminist pedagogy, sexual harassment, and gender mainstreaming in theory and practice. As research leader at the Center for Gender Research, Uppsala University, he developed new gender perspectives on the management, governance and organization of higher education within the framework of an excellence program financed by the Swedish Research Council. Since 2013, Fredrik has worked at the University of Gothenburg with several tasks, for example managing the government assignment on gender mainstreaming Swedish universities (JiHU 2016-2018). He has a long experience from various expert assignments within research and higher education policy, with a special focus on gender equality in academia, and is involved in several EU networks on gender in research and education.

Magdalena Nowicka

Head of Department Integration at German Centre for Integration and Migration Research

Magdalena Nowicka is Head of Department Integration at German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM e.V.) in Berlin and Professor for Migration and Transnationalism at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She holds a doctoral degree in Sociology from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, a Master of Arts degree in Cultural Studies from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland and a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from the University of Warsaw, Poland. Her research and teaching activities are in the field of transnational migration in Europe, cosmopolitanism and conviviality, social inequalities, diversity, racism and qualitative research methods. She is member of the German Sociological Association, Council for Migration, diverse research networks, advisory boards of international journals (ex. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Advances in Research: Migration and Society), and she is alumna of the German Young Academy.

Astrid James

Deputy Editor of The Lancet

Astrid James is Deputy Editor of The Lancet. She qualified in medicine from University College Hospital, London, in 1986, after gaining an intercalated degree in History of Medicine in 1983 from UCL. Astrid then worked in the NHS for five years, gaining exposure in a range of specialties, including cardiology, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, and geriatrics, in London, Harefield, Winchester, and Cardiff. She completed general practice training and then decided to go into medical publishing, working first for Medical Tribune in the UK and then for Medical Action Communications. Astrid joined The Lancet as an Assistant Editor in 1993, becoming Deputy Editor in 2001. She is interested in all aspects of medical research and practice, and is committed to promoting the need for women in medicine and more broadly in science, and to identifying and discussing barriers to their career development.

Rhonda Davis

Head of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) in the Office of the Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF)

Rhonda Davis is Head of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) in the Office of the Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) where she is responsible for ensuring NSF’s commitment to a diverse, inclusive, and discrimination-free environment for employees, beneficiaries and applicants for employment or services associated with the $8 billion budget that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. NSF funds reach annually all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 colleges, universities and other institutions from more than 50,000 competitive proposals that result in about 12,000 new funding awards. Recently, her efforts resulted in NSF being a trailblazer as one of the first federal agencies that require institutions it funds to notify the agency of any findings or determinations that an NSF-funded principal investigator or co-principal investigator committed harassment (including sexual harassment or sexual assault) or placed on administrative leave or imposition of administrative action relating to harassment or sexual assault finding or investigation. Her work in this area has resulted in her testifying before Congress, serving on numerous panels both nationally and globally, including an embassy.

Wim van Saarloos

President of the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)

After obtaining his PhD in theoretical physics at Leiden University in 1982, Wim van Saarloos worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the USA before returning to Leiden University in the Netherlands in 1991 as a professor of theoretical physics. He was the founder and long-time director of the Lorentz Center (1997-2009), an international workshop center in the sciences, the director of the physics foundation FOM (2009-2015), and led the preparation for the transition of the national science funding NWO to a new organizational structure. As of 2017, van Saarloos is back at Leiden University as professor of physics, and since June 2018 he is the president of the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences). Wim is father of three daughters, and since 1997 he has been involved in various initiatives to improve gender equality in the sciences, including a programme through which 16 additional female scientists were elected as academy member.

Holly Falk-Krzesinski

Vice President, Research Intelligence on the Global Strategic Networks team at Elsevier.

Holly Falk-Krzesinski, PhD, is the Vice President, Research Intelligence on the Global Strategic Networks team at Elsevier. Her key role is building and maintaining long term relationships with research institutions and funders, giving voice to research leaders at those organizations within Elsevier to help the business deliver the most impactful solutions to support research globally. Holly’s responsibilities center on how insights from data and analytics guide strategic planning for research institutions, funders, and science policy organizations and her engagement activities include building partnerships around gender diversity and equity issues. Actively involved in promoting women leaders in STEM, Holly served as the editor-in-chief of the AWIS Magazine, is co-chair of the Gender Working Group at Elsevier, and co-authored Elsevier’s public report, Gender in the Global Research Landscape. Prior to joining Elsevier, Holly was a faculty member and administrator at Northwestern University—and an Elsevier Research Intelligence customer. Notably, there she launched the Chicago Collaboration for Women in STEM and the Navigating the Professoriate and Beyond Tenure programs in support of career advancement for women faculty members in STEM fields.

Curt Rice

President of Oslo Metropolitan University

Professor Curt Rice is the President of Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway – an institution which has achieved complete gender balance at the professorial level. He also leads Norway’s Committee on Gender Balance and Diversity in Research. Rice has been active in issues related to gender equality in academia for many years, and has had a role in several EU projects, including genSET, genderSTE, EGERA, LIBRA, and more. Rice was part of the genSET Science Leaders Panel, which in 2010 examined evidence on how gender dimension is treated in research. The Panel’s conclusions led to the creation of the Gender Summit platform. He has also been involved in the development of gender equality projects at the Research Council of Norway, including the creation of their «Balance» program. Prior to assuming the presidency of OsloMet, Rice was the Vice President for Research at the University of Tromsø, where he also was the Founding Director of that institution’s first Center of Excellence, CASTL — the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics. He is a prominent writer and speaker on issues of the type to be addressed at the Gender Summit and in 2018 he addressed the Nobel Prize Committees as part of their efforts towards great success in identifying more women Nobel laureates.

Marijke Naezer

Cultural anthropologist and genderstudies researcher

Dr. Marijke Naezer (1982) is a cultural anthropologist and genderstudies researcher. She works as an independent researcher, speaker, author and advisor. Areas of interest include gender, diversity, sexuality, and sexual and domestic violence. In 2018-2019, she studied harassment in Dutch academia, together with prof. Marieke Van den Brink and prof. Yvonne Benschop. This study was commissioned by the Dutch Network of Women Professors. The report “Harassment in Dutch academia: Exploring manifestations, facilitating factors, effects and solutions” was published in May 2019.

Claartje Vinkenburg

Independent expert consultant and researcher

Claartje Vinkenburg PhD is an independent expert consultant and researcher specialized in (gender) diversity in careers. Her area of expertise is careers in academia and professional service firms, where she looks at the impact of implicit bias, normative beliefs, and discursive practices on career patterns and outcomes. Claartje spent 25 years studying and writing on this subject at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is committed to developing evidence based interventions to promote diversity in organizations. Claartje is an affliated research consultant with VU Amsterdam, Atria Institute for Gender Equality, and Portia Ltd.

Cornelia Lawson

Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Centre for Research on Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CREI) at the University of Bath School of Management

Dr. Cornelia Lawson is currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) within the Centre for Research on Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CREI) at the University of Bath School of Management. Her main research interests are in the area of economics and management of science and innovation, and in her work, Cornelia investigates the performance and career paths of academic researchers. Cornelia holds a PhD in Economics from City University of London and has been a research fellow at the University of Cambridge, University of Turin and the University of Tokyo prior to joining Bath. On 1 October 2019 she will be joining Alliance Manchester Business School as a Senior Lecture (Associate Professor) in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy.

Ineke Klinge

Professor Ineke Klinge chaired the Horizon 2020 Advisory Group on Gender at the European Commission (2014-2018). This work will be continued by the Expert Group Gendered Innovations 2 to build a bridge to the next framework programme Horizon Europe and she will be the Rapporteur. Ineke Klinge held positions as professor Gender Medicine at the University of Göttingen (2008-2009) and Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin (2015). Her background lies in biomedical sciences and gender research and her work has focused on innovation of methodologies for biomedical and health research. Since 2000 she has coordinated many EU funded projects and was a pioneer in raising awareness for integration of sex and gender in research and innovation in EU framework programmes.

Maria Udén

 Professor in Gender and Technology, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

Maria Udén is a Professor in Gender and Technology and works at the unit for Industrial design, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. In her early career she studied engineering, and graduated in 1988 with a MSc in Mineral Processing and Metallurgy. Her interdisciplinary doctoral thesis "Women technically speaking" was defended at Luleå University of Technology, the Department of Human Work Science, in 2000. The long-term work she started as a PhD student explores the possibilities for combining feminist thinking and engineering science. Her teaching includes courses in Innovation, Gender and Sustainable Development; Design, Gender and Aesthetics; Gender studies perspective on technology and the engineering sciences.

Wolfgang Burtscher

Deputy Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation

Wolfgang Burtscher has been Deputy Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation since 2009 and has meanwhile been responsible for a wide range of policy development and implementation issues pertaining to both the EU research and innovation framework programmes and broader EU research and innovation policy. From 2000 to 2009, Mr Burtscher was Director in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture. Before joining the European Commission in 2000, Mr Burtscher was representative of the Länder at the Austrian Permanent Representation to the EU. From 1992 to 1996, Mr Burtscher was Director of European Affairs in the Vorarlberg administration. Previously, from 1990 to 1992, he was a legal advisor at the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in Geneva, at the time of negotiations on the European Economic Area (EEA). From 1983 to 1990, he was a lecturer in International and European Law at the University of Innsbruck. Mr Burtscher holds a doctorate in law and also has a qualification from the Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales in Nice.

Efthimia Aivaloglou

Assistant Professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science in the Netherlands

Efthimia Aivaloglou is Assistant Professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science in the Netherlands. She is doing research at the Programming Education Research Lab (http://perl.liacs.nl/) on topics related to computing education, gender diversity in computer science, and software engineering.

Kyoko Shinozaki

Professor of Sociology with a focus on “Migration and Mobilities” at the Department of Sociology, University of Salzburg, Austria

Kyoko Shinozaki is Professor of Sociology with a focus on “Migration and Mobilities” at the Department of Sociology, University of Salzburg, Austria. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Gender Studies from Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, after having completed her MSc. in Gender – Gender Relation at the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Bachelor of Law at the University of Kurume, Japan, and a BA in Political Science at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. She is particularly interested in how migration processes – of both ‘skilled’ and ‘less-skilled’ flows – reconstitute globally intersecting inequalities along the division of gender, racialisation and class.

Simone Buitendijk

Vice-Provost (Education) at Imperial College London

Professor Simone Buitendijk MD, MPH, PhD is Vice-Provost (Education) at Imperial College London, leading its vision for an innovative and globally-leading learning and teaching environment, and an excellent student educational experience. An expert in Maternal and Child Health, Professor Buitendijk is also Professor of Women’s and Family Health at the Leiden University Medical Centre, having held the Netherlands’ first professorial chair for primary care in obstetrics at the University of Amsterdam. She studied Medicine in Utrecht, received a Master’s degree in Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine in the US, and earned her PhD degree in Leiden. Professor Buitendijk is Chair of the League of European Research Universities’ (LERU) Learning and Teaching Policy Group. She was a member of the LERU Gender Steering Group, co-authoring the 2013 LERU position paper ‘'Women, research and universities: excellence without gender bias" and the 2015 LERU advice paper “Gendered Research and Innovation”. She is currently lead author on a LERU paper, “Equality, diversity and inclusion at universities: the power of a systemic approach”, to be published in September 2019.

Stephen Curry

Assistant Provost (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion), Imperial College, UK

Stephen Curry, a structural biologist, divides his time between research and teaching in the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College with his relatively new role overseeing equality, diversity and inclusion at the university. Originally a physicist, Stephen migrated to the life sciences during his PhD and postdoctoral stints in France, the UK and the USA. He is a Fellow of the Society of Biology. He also regularly writes on the culture and the social responsibilities of scientists and universities. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Times Higher Education, The Biochemist, Research Fortnight, and New Scientist. In 2014, he awarded the Peter Wildy Prize for Microbial Education at the Society for General Microbiology. He is a board member of the Campaign for Science and Enginering (CaSE), the Science is Vital campaign group and is a co-author of The Metric Tide, a UK review on the use of metrics in research evaluation.

Stefanie Lietze

Master of Science in Applied Psychology (Education, Workplace & Business)

Stefanie Lietze is Master of Science in Applied Psychology (Education, Workplace & Business) with a background in psychodiagnostics and development of learning apps as well as digital learning environments at the University of Vienna. She is currently working on enhancing the teaching and learning at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna to compensate for barriers and problems due to gender or other apsects of diversity. Special focus of her work lies in enhancing bareer-free learning (environments), creating OERs and helping lecturers to work in this manner. Her department, the Teaching and Learning Center, developed different strategies and formats to support students as well as well as staff.

Margarethe Hochleitner

Professor for Gender Medicine & Diversity, Director of the Gender Medicine Unit at the Innsbruck University Hospital

Hochleitner, Margarethe, Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in med., Professor for Gender Medicine & Diversity, Director of the Gender Medicine Unit at the Innsbruck University Hospital, 1991-date chairperson of the Committee for Equal Rights at the Innsbruck University; since 2008 Director of the Women’s Health Centre at the Innsbruck University Hospital.

Aranka Ballering

PhD candidate at the University Medical Center Groningen

Aranka is a PhD candidate at the University Medical Center Groningen, under supervision of Judith Rosmalen (University of Groningen) and Tim olde Hartman (RadboudUMC Nijmegen) within the Gender and Health project. Her background lies in Health and Life Sciences and developmental aid. Currently Aranka works on a project aiming to disentangle the effects of both sex and gender on common somatic symptoms and chronic diseases. Similarly, she also assesses whether gender and sex are independently associated with persistent common somatic symptoms. A special interest of Aranka lies in whether the quality of healthcare differs for people with differing gender identities.

Renee Bolijn

PhD candidate at the Department of Public Health at the Amsterdam UMC

Renee Bolijn works as a PhD candidate at the Department of Public Health at the Amsterdam UMC. The goal of her research is to strengthen the evidence base for targeted cardiovascular disease prevention for women in the Netherlands. To this end, she investigates sex and gender differences in cardiovascular disease risk using an intersectionality perspective. She has a bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences (Maastricht University) and a master’s degree in Epidemiology (Utrecht University).

Sophie H Bots

PhD at the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands

Sophie obtained her undergraduate degree in premedical science at the international honours college of Utrecht University, The Netherlands in 2015. Her interest in epidemiological research was sparked by her bachelor thesis project, prompting her to apply for a three-month research internship at the George Institute for Global Health in Oxford in the United Kingdom. She returned to Oxford for her graduate degree in Global Health Science, which she successfully finished in 2017. She is currently doing her PhD at the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands. Her PhD topic is sex differences in cardiovascular diseases with a focus on heart failure and medication prescription, adherence, side effects and dosing. She has published on the lack of sex-specific data on adverse drug reactions to heart failure medications and is currently working on filling this evidence gap. With her epidemiology and statistics background, her interests lie in exploring the research opportunities offered by the wealth of data that is currently made available to researchers due to technological advances allowing for the collection, storage and analysis of large datasets.

Marit de Jong

Researcher department of epidemiology at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary care, UMC Utrecht

Marit de Jong has a background in biomedical sciences and medicine, and is currently working at the department of epidemiology at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary care, UMC Utrecht. Her research is mainly focused on sex differences in diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.

Paula Mommersteeg

Assistant professor of medical and clinical psychology at Tilburg University

Dr. Paula Mommersteeg is an assistant professor of medical and clinical psychology at Tilburg University. In her research she investigates the role of psychological factors in cardiovascular disease, with special attention for gender differences and biological mechanisms. In the ZonMw and the Dutch Heart Foundation funded meta-analysis (#849100001), she and her colleagues examined whether women with psychosocial complaints were more at risk for development and progression of ischemic heart diseases than men.

Esther Neven

Management Development and training in The Hague, The Netherlands

Esther Neven studied educational sciences. She has worked as Management Development consultant Diversity at the police, and is currently working as professional in Management Development and training in The Hague, The Netherlands. She is preparing a PhD on women in the Dutch police force, with a special focus on othering and exclusion resulting from a “blue web” of police members working together for the length of their career.

Lia Lang

Science management at DESY, Germany

Lia Lang studied in Munich, Stockholm and Berlin and holds a master degree in gender studies from the Humboldt University. She is currently working in science management at DESY, a Research Centre of the Helmholtz Assoziation in Germany. Lia is involved in several European funded project aiming to enhance gender equality in the European Research Area. In particular, she is facilitating GENERA, a network out of physics research institutions aiming to improve Gender Equality by implementing Gender Equality Plans. Prior to that Lia Lang was involved in studies on women in the field of science and industry working at the Fraunhofer Center for Responsible Research and Innovation. Furthermore, she is working as a junior consultant for organizational change processes in the private and public sector driving gender and diversity issues forward. Her research interests are processes of change and in particular gender and diversity within science, gender and physics, career development with a focus on how to put gender and diversity into practice.

Irina Orssich

Directorate-General CONNECT at the European Commission

Irina Orssich is working in Directorate-General CONNECT at the European Commission. She is specialised in the field of Artificial Intelligence. A German national, she has a law degree and a postgraduate degree in European law. Previously responsibilities have included posts in the audiovisual sector and as legal adviser for competition and state aid law.