Female Role Models Seminar

Have you ever wondered how to navigate career milestones to become a successful scientist? We bring women scientists to share their career path experiences through informal discussions.

Seminars are open to pre- and post-docs, all genders (non-WoBio members welcome).

Organising team

Linda Kloss, Magdalena Miklaszewska, Elmira Mohandesan, Anna Pyttlik

Previous Role Models Seminar

Portrait of the speaker Dr. Beate Apfelbeck

  • Speaker: Dr. Beate Apfelbeck
  • Date: Wednesday, June 26th 2024 at 11:30
  • Venue: University Biology Building, Room: SR 4.1
  • Target group: Everyone (all genders and career stages)

Please register here!  (Registration closed)

Past Role Model Seminars

2024
June 26 Beate Apfelbeck Senior Scientist, University of Salzburg, Austria
Mai 15 Clarisse Palma da Silva Associate Professor, University of Campinas - Unicamps, Brazil
April 18 Agnes Dellinger Associate Professor, University of Vienna, Austria
March 6 Carrie Albertin Assitent Scientist, MBL Woods, USA Hole
February 13 Tracy Kivell Research Director, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, GER
January 19 Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid Senior Group Leader, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
2023
November 15 Lori A. Passmore Group Leader, Cambridge, Unity Kingdom
October 23 Kirsten Bomblies Professor, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
June 14 Leslea J. Hlusko Professor, CENIEH, Burgos, Spain / University of California Berkeley, USA
March 3 Pamela Burger Project Leader, VetMed Uni, Vienna, Austria
January 20 Bea Maas Project Leader, University of Vienna, Austria
2022
December 20 Erika Isono Professor, University of Konstanz, Germany
2021
April 16 Élodie F. Briefer Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2020
January 14 Amy Schmid Professor, Duke Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Durham, USA
March 17 Eva K. Fischer Assistant professor, University of Illinois, USA
March 6 Katarzyna Retzer Research associate, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czeck Republic
2019
May 20 Sarah Elton Professor, University of Durham, UK
2018
November 19 Bibiana Rojas Research Fellow, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
May 11 Lauren O'Connell Assistant Professor at Stanford University, USA
February 6 Simona Bonelli Professor, University of Turin, Italy
2017
December 13 Christina Biasi Research Director, University of Eastern Finland
November 27 Deborah Charlesworth Professor, University of Edinburgh, UK
June 30 Cornelia Welte Assistant Professor, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
March 8 Mihaela Pavličev Assistant Professor, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA
2016
November 9 Nicole Dubilier Professor, Max Planck Institute, Bremen, Germany