Speakers

Talk 1: Dr. Lydia Sanmartí-Vila (Barcelona)

Dr. Sanmartí-Vila is a chemist with a PhD in neuro-biochemistry (OVGU 20xx). Now a member of ICFO’s outreach team, she manages projects like the H2020 EU project PHABLABS 4.0, which brings photonics closer to society through workshops and challenges organized in maker-spaces. She is a member of the team coordinating Quantum Flagship, one of the most ambitious EU projects with a 10 year life span and 1 billion € investment.

Talk 2: Dr. Rasa Gulbinaite (Lyon)

Dr. Gulbinaite is a post-doctoral researcher at Lyon Neuro-science Research Center and Marie Curie fellow. She studied biophysics and neurobiology in Vilnius University, and re-ceived her PhD at the University of Groningen. Passion to understand the mechanisms of stroboscopic light effects on the brain brought her to neuroscience labs in France, Canada and Netherlands. Prior to starting a scientific career, she had a “real job” as data analyst and project manager.

Talk 3: Dr. Abby Woodfin (London)

Dr. Woodfin studied vascular physiology and received her PhD from King’s College London. She investigated microvascular inflammation, leukocyte migration and angiogenesis for 12 years before leaving academia. She now works for the British Heart Foundation, the largest non-governmental funder of cardiovascular research in Europe.  As senior research advisor she provides scientific support for the charities’ research investments.

Talk 4: Susanne Lüders (Magdeburg)

Susanne Lüders studied German, Russian and English in Magdeburg, Voronezh (Russia) and Philadelphia (USA). She worked as a teacher in Germany and Switzerland, spent many years as an expert for education for the Goethe-Institute in Stockholm and as a policy officer for the Representation of Saxony-Anhalt where she is responsible for Saxony-Anhalt´s teacher training on university level.

Talk 5: Prof. Dr. Elena Azañon (Magdeburg)

Prof. Azañon studied psychology and acquired her PhD at the University of Barcelona. Her thesis was awarded best thesis in psychology, for contributing to the understanding of somatic senses. Becoming a Marie Curie Fellow in 2011, she started working at the University College London and at Birkbeck. In 2018 she became a Dorothea Erxleben Professor at the OVGU, where she has established the Somatosensory and Body Lab. She is married to a neuroscientist, their son was born in 2017.

Talk 6: Prof. Dr. Nicole Wetzel (Magdeburg)

Prof. Wetzel studied psychology and obtained her PhD (2007) and habilitation (2016) at the University of Leipzig. Since 2017, she has led the CBBS research group Neurocognitive Deve-lopment at the LIN. In 2018, she was awarded a grant by the Leibniz Program for Women Professors. In October 2018, she was appointed professor for Neurocognitive Development at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal (joint affiliation with the LIN).

Workshop: Dr. Karin Bodewits (NaturalScienceCareers)

Dr. Karin Bodewits is speaker, author, seminar leader and founder of the career platform NaturalScience.Careers. She studied biology at the University of Groningen and received her PhD in bio-chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. Since then she is working and writing around the topic “Women, career & science”. She published a career guide for female natural scientists (Wiley, 2016) and her first novel ‘You must be very intelligent - the PhD Delusion’ (Springer, 2017).