EWORA 6TH CONFERENCE

Sarah Springman

Rector, ETH Zürich

Sarah Marcella Springman has been Full Professor for Geotechnical Engineering at ETH Zurich since January 1997 and Rector of ETH since January 2015. Born in London in 1956, Professor Springman studied engineering science at Cambridge University before embarking on a career in industry. She worked for five years as a civil engineer on several geotechnical projects in England, Fiji, and Australia before returning to Cambridge, where she earned her PhD in 1989 and established an academic career as a university lecturer. She has been a full professor at the ETH Zurich in the Institute for Geotechnical Engineering (Department Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering), since 1997, heading the institute from 2001 to 2005 and again from 2009 to 2011. Professor Springman also served as the Director of the ETH Zurich Network for Natural Hazards from 2007 to 2009 and as Joint Deputy Head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering from 2013 to 2014. Her research interests focus on soil-structure interaction and the geotechnical aspects of natural hazards, in particular landslides and melting permafrost. She uses geotechnical modelling to develop solutions that can improve the design of structures and stabilise slopes in the natural environment.

Professor Springman has published numerous journal articles and monographs, as well as co-editing proceedings and reviewing submissions for a range of scientific publications. She has contributed to more than 100 presentations at refereed conferences and given many keynote lectures. She received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Bath in 2013, and of Philosophy from the University of Berne in 2016. Professor Springman is active in a number of research organisations in Switzerland and abroad, including eight years as a member the Swiss Science and Technology Council (2000–2007), forerunner to today’s Swiss Science and Innovation Council. She is currently a member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Professor Springman has supervised two dozen doctoral theses over the course of her career and inspired many young women to take up engineering degrees.

Arne Flåøyen

Director, NordForsk

Dr Arne Flåøyen is since 2018 the Director of NordForsk. He has spent the past 20 years at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute, where he was Deputy Director General and Head of Department between 2007 and 2017. Dr Flåøyen studied at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, where he earned a DVM degree and two Ph.D. degrees. He also completed a Master of Management at the BI Norwegian Business School. From 2004 to 2006 he worked as National Expert and Project Officer in DG Research in the European Commission. Between 1998 and 2002, Dr Flåøyen chaired the Nordic Forestry, Veterinary and Agricultural University’s (NOVA) steering group for collaboration with developing countries. Dr Flåøyen was a member of the Research Board of the Division for Science at the Research Council of Norway from 2011 to 2015.

Sijbolt Noorda

President, Magna Charta Observatory

Sijbolt Noorda is president of Magna Charta Observatory, Bologna and of Academic Cooperation Association, Brussels. He is a former president of the Dutch Association of Research Universities, president emeritus of Universiteit van Amsterdam and a former Board member of the European University Association.

Dr Noorda writes and lectures on teaching and learning in Higher Education, about ideals and practices of internationalization, on open science, core values and on governance issues in HEIs. He regularly reviews and gives advice to individual universities and national systems in the European Higher Education Area. In The Netherlands he chairs the supervisory board of Codarts (the Rotterdam University of the Arts), the board of De Groene Amsterdammer (the only independent weekly magazine in the country) and the board of Muziekgebouw aan het IJ (the music hall for contemporary classical music). He is the father of three daughters who each have made their own professional career.

Louise Morley

Professor of Education, University of Sussex

Louise Morley AcSS is a Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER) (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/cheer/) at the University of Sussex, UK. Louise has an international profile in the field of the sociology of gender in higher education studies. Her research and publication interests focus on international higher education policy, gender, equity, micropolitics, quality, leadership and power. She is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Society for Research into Higher Education, a Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Gender Excellence, University of Örebro, Sweden, and the 2013-2014 Inaugural Chair, Women’s Leadership Centre, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia. 
 

She is currently conducting research on women and leadership in higher education in South Asia for the British Council. She has also completed research for the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education on women and leadership, and on Widening Participation in Higher Education in Ghana and Tanzania (www.sussex.ac.uk/education/cheer/wphegt) for the ESRC/DFID. She has held research grants from the Economic and Social Research Council, the UK Department for International Development, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the British Council, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. She is on the editorial boards for Studies in Higher Education, Gender and Education, Teaching in Higher Education and Higher Education Research and Development. Recent publications include: Morley, L. (2014). “Lost Leaders: Women in the Global Academy.” Higher Education Research and Devel opment. 33(1): 111–125; Morley, L. (2012). “The Rules of the Game: Women and the Leaderist Turn in Higher Education “ Gender and Education. 25(1). For further details of publications, please see Sussex Research Online- http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/view/creators/461.html

Liisa Husu

Professor of Gender Studies, Örebro University

Professor of Gender Studies; Co-Director of GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Örebro University, Sweden

Dr. Liisa Husu is a Finnish sociologist and gender expert, actively engaged in gender and science issues in research, policy and civil society since the early 1980s. She is Professor of Gender Studies at the Örebro University, Sweden, and Co-Director of the three-university research platform GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, and also affiliated to the Department of Management and Organisation, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki. From the early 1980s to mid-1990s she was engaged in gender equality policy-making in the Finnish governmental gender equality machinery in the Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Social Affairs as a Senior Adviser and National co-ordinator of Women’s Studies.
 

Her re­­search and publications fo­­cus on gen­­der in scien­­ce, academia and knowledge production, espe­­­­­­cially gen­­der dyna­­mics and in­­equa­­li­­ties in scien­­tific careers, organisations and scien­­ce po­­licy. She has lectured and presented her research in thirty countries, including Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Europe, Morocco, South Africa and USA. She has contributed extensively as a gender expert and ad­­vi­­ser for research and higher education stakeholders in Nor­­dic count­­­­­­­­­­­­ries, Europe and internationally, including ministries, international and national agencies and research funding organisations, as well as several universities especially in the Nordic region. Husu has played an active role in European research development and actions on gender and science in EC expert groups, European research projects (ADVANCE, PROMETEA, genSET, GEDII) and international networks. She is partner of GenPORT, a major EU FP7 project pooling and organising international gender and science resources for research, policy and action into an interactive portal. Husu contributed to the EC re­­port Gen­­der and Excel­­lence in the Making (2004), and was the Rap­­­­porteur of the EC ex­­pert group Gen­­der and Ex­­cel­­len­­ce (The Gender Challenge in Research Funding, 2009). She was a founding member of the European Platform of Women Scientists and a long-term member of its board. As the moderator of the European Network on Gender Equality in Higher Education she has contributed to organising nine European Conferences on Gender Equality in Higher Education. She has been Vice-Chair of the University of Helsinki Equality Committee, and inaugural Chair of the Board of NIKK, the Nordic Gender Institute. In 2009 she was awarded the University of Helsinki Gender Equality Prize, the Maikki Friberg Prize.

Eileen Drew

WiSER, Trinity College Dublin

Professor Eileen Drew is Director of the Trinity Centre for Gender Equality and Leadership (https://www.tcd.ie/tcgel/) at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland where she has taught in the School of Computer Science and Statistics and Centre for Gender and Women's Studies. Her research interests are: gender and the labour market, equality and diversity, work/life balance, the gender pay gap, family leave policies and gender in entrepreneurship and academic leadership.   
 

During her academic career, Professor Drew has been involved in research, training and consultancy for numerous international gender related projects for the Council of Europe and European Commission. Professor Drew worked as the Gender Mainstreaming expert for the Social Security Reform Co-operation Project in China. She holds the position of National Senior Expert to the European Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) and has provided national expertise for several European Gender Equality Institute (EIGE) projects. She represents the university on the League of European Research Universities (LERU) Gender Thematic Group.
 

Professor Drew is engaged in driving the Athena SWAN initiative in Trinity College, following the successful completion of the INstitutional Transformation for Effecting Gender Equality (INTEGER) Project in June 2015. She is currently the Coordinator of the Systemic Action for Gender Equality (SAGE) Horizon 2020 Project that commenced September 2016.

Rianne Letschert

Rector, Maastricht University

Professor Rianne Letschert (1976) studied International Law at Tilburg University, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Montpellier. She obtained her PhD from Tilburg University in 2005, with a thesis entitled The impact of minority rights mechanisms, exploring the competing international organisations that formulate policy and legislation on national minorities.
 

In March 2011 Letschert was appointed professor to the newly established chair in Victimology and International Law at Tilburg University. From April until August 2010 she was a visiting research fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge as well as a research fellow at Clare College in Cambridge, where she is a lifelong member. In 2014 she also held a visiting professorship at the University of Barcelona. She has written and edited various books, and published articles in national and international scholarly journals.
 

Professor Letschert received a Vidi grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in May 2015 for her research on the impact of international tribunals on societies and people who are confronted with serious violations of human rights and international crime. She is an expert consultant on casualty cases to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, and she previously also directed the International Victimology Institute Tilburg (INTERVICT). In 2012 she became a member of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and was appointed as its chair in April 2015 till 2018.
 

Professor Letschert has been Rector Magnificus of Maastricht University since 1 September 2016.

Andrea Nolan

Principal&Vice Chancellor, Edinburg Napier University

Professor Andrea Nolan (MVB, FRCVS, PhD, DVA, DiplECVAA, DipECVPT) is Principal & Vice Chancellor of Edinburgh Napier University and Professor in Veterinary Pharmacology.

Andrea graduated as a veterinary surgeon from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and after a short time in veterinary practice, embarked on an academic career which led to her appointment as a lecturer in Veterinary Pharmacology and ultimately Professor in the University of Glasgow.
 

During the 1990s, Andrea established herself as a research leader in the field of animal pain, its recognition and management. She has published widely and has received awards for her work including the Pfizer Academic Award for Animal Health Research, the Amoroso Award from the British Small Animal Veterinary Association and the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare Companion Animal Award. She has contributed to educational development in animal pain management and welfare over many years. She has been a member of several journal Editorial Boards, was a founding member of the World Small Animal Veterinary Association’s Global PainCouncil and is currently a Trustee of two animal charities.

Andrea was awarded an Honorary OBE in 2013 for services to Higher Education and Veterinary Science. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Royal Agricultural Societies.

Beate A. Schücking

President, Leipzig University, Germany

Beate A. Schücking is the 968th President of Leipzig University and Professor of Health Science and Psychosocial Medicine. She is the first woman to become Leipzig University’s President since its founding in 1409. Before being elected as president she was Vice-President for Research and Doctoral Studies at Osnabrück University.
 

Schücking worked in research and higher education for many years. She received her degree as an MD in 1981, and her PhD in Hematology in the same year from the University of Ulm. As a member of the Faculty of Medicine at the Philipps University in Marburg (1981-1989) she specialized in Internal Medicine, Psychosocial Medicine and Family Medicine. From 1989 to 1995 she served as professor of Medicine and Health Science at the University of Applied Science in Munich. While in Osnabrück, she was elected Dean of the Faculty of Health Science, Psychology and Cognitive Science in 2000, and Vice-President for Research and Doctoral Studies in 2004.
 

Beate A. Schücking is the author of numerous articles and papers on aspects of scientific research and professional education. She is widely published in scholarly sources, including BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Social Science and Medicine, the Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology.

Isabel Capeloa Gil

Rector, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Isabel Capeloa Gil is the Rector of the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) and President of the International Federation of Catholic Universities. She is a Full Professor of Culture Studies at the School of Human Sciences. Having grown up in China, she studied in Lisbon (U. Lisbon), Munich (Ludwig Maximilian University) and Chicago and holds a PhD in German Studies (UCP). Previously, she was Vice-Rector for Research and Internationalization (2012-2016) and the Dean of the School of Human Sciences (2005-2012) of the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP). Isabel Gil has been especially interested in researching issues of diversity and conflict and has structured her work around the exploration of the disciplinary boundaries between the arts and other disciplines.
 

She is a passionate advocate of international education and works consistently to develop international research networks, exploring the different ways in which the practice of the arts and humanities is pivotal to advance a more sustainable and intellectually robust global education agenda. Her research is currently published in Portuguese, English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. She is the author of over 182 publications, bridging cultural theory, interarts studies, visual culture, culture and conflict. Her latest books are Hazardous Future: Disaster, Representation and the Assessment of Risk (with Christoph Wulf, New York, 2015) and The Ballets Russes. Modern Times After Dhiaghilev (with PcPinto, Lisbon, 2018) . She was a founding member and is a senior researcher at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC), where she coordinates the research group Culture, Art and Conflict (CAC). As an international scholar, Prof. Gil has held numerous visiting professorships at prestigious universities such as LMU University, Munich, Hamburg University,Ca’Foscari University, Venice, the Houston School of Film at the National University ofIreland, PUC Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and USJ (Macao). She was a Visiting Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Berlin) and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (U. Stanford). Amongst her honours are a Fulbright Fellowship, and DAAD, FLAD and Gulbenkian Scholarships.

 

Isabel Capeloa Gil has been a regular consultant for research foundations such as the Danish Research Council, FAPESP (Brazil), the FCT and FLAD in Portugal as well as the Luso-American Comission (Fulbright). She was an evaluator of the prestigious Excellence Initiative of the Germnan Federal Government and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and is Chair of the Humanities panel at the Danish Research Council.

Isabel Capeloa Gil is furthermore Honorary Fellow at the IGRS, School of Advanced Studies, University of London. In 2018, she became Chair of the Research Leadership Forum of the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils. She is also a Member of the European Council of Foreign Relations, as well as a member of the Advisory Board of the Gulbenkian Foundation. Since 2016, she has been the President of the Board of the UCP Foundation.

Esra Gençtürk

Rector, Ozyegin University

Dr. Esra Gençtürk was appointed as the Rector of Ozyegin University in 2014. After graduating from Robert College (1977) in Turkey, she received her B.S. degree (1981) from University of Southern California, and earned her M.B.A. (1983) and Ph.D. in Marketing (1990) from University of Minnesota. Before joining Özyeğin University in 2009, Dr. Gençtürk was on the Marketing and International Business faculty of the University of Texas at Austin (1989-1996), and a faculty member of the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics at Koç University (1996-2009). She joined Ozyegin University in 2009 as Executive Director of Sector Solutions Program, and served as the Vice Rector between 2011 and 2014. Dr. Gençtürk was the recipient of the University of Minnesota annual doctoral dissertation fellowship for 1986-1987, and was a fellow at the 1986 American Marketing Association Doctoral Consortium. She was also the co-recipient of the 1987 Robert Lieberman Memorial Award for teaching excellence at the University of Minnesota. At the University of Texas, Dr. Gençtürk was a finalist in the 1990 Business Council Texas Excellence Teaching Award, and was nominated for several teaching awards including the Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship (Spring 1991, Spring 1990), College of Business Administration Foundation Teaching Award (Spring 1992, Spring 1991) as well as the Hank and Mary Harkins Foundation Award for Effective Teaching in Large Classes (Spring 1990, Spring 1993). Dr. Gençtürk has taught International Marketing, Marketing Research, and Marketing Strategy at both the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as at Executive MBA and Executive Training programs. Dr. Gençtürk’s research interests include strategic marketing and competition strategies, management of distribution channels, foreign market entry and penetration strategies, research design, and measurement considerations. In addition to her award-winning research and articles published in refereed international journals, Prof. Gençtürk also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of International Marketing, the Journal of International Management, and Advances in International Marketing. Prof. Gençtürk served as Vice President of Communications for the American Marketing Association Global Special Interest group for two consecutive terms between 2005 and 2010, and was elected as its Chair in 2011.

Sylvia Schwaag-Seger

Deputy Vice Chancellor, Lund University

Professor Sylvia Schwaag Serger has an MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a PhD in economic history from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focus has been on research and innovation policy and on China’s economic and scientific development. Prior to becoming Deputy Vice Chancellor, she was Executive Director for International Strategy at the Swedish Government Agency for Innovation (VINNOVA) and Adjunct Professor in research policy at the School of Economics of Lund University. She has run an independent think tank on the knowledge economy, worked as Swedish Science Counselor in Beijing (2005 and 2007) and as analyst for the Swedish government (Ministry of Trade and Industry and Swedish Institute for Food and Agricultural Economics) and been commissioned as expert by the European Commission, the World Bank and the OECD. During 2015 and 2016 she was senior advisor at the Swedish Prime Minister’s Office for Strategic Development. In 2016, she was appointed by the Swedish Government to coordinate the government’s efforts to mitigate the effects of Ericsson’s cutbacks in Sweden. Schwaag Serger is member of the Austrian Council for Research and Technological Development, chairperson of the Swedish Foundation for Internationalization of Higher Education and Research and member of the International Advisory Board of the Norwegian Research Council. She has served on the board of the University of Uppsala and on the Swedish Government Expert Commission on Research. At European level, she has chaired an expert group on international research and innovation cooperation for DG Research. She has also served as member of an expert group tasked with evaluating the European Innovation Partnerships and as member of the Expert Group on the Economic and Societal Impact of Research and Innovation (ESIR). From 2013- 2016 she was Guest Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute for Policy Management (CASIPM). Ms Schwaag Serger was born and raised in Germany and the US. She speaks German, English, Swedish and French fluently and has a good knowledge of Italian and Mandarin.

Claudine Hermann

President, European Platform of Women Scientists

Claudine Hermann (born 1945) is Honorary Professor of Physics at Ecole Polytechnique, the most renowned French engineering school. She is alumna of Ecole Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles and her PhD (1976) was in Solid State Physics. She was the first woman ever appointed Professor at Ecole Polytechnique (1992). Since then, in parallel with her activities in Physics, she has been studying the situation of women scientists in Western Europe and promoting science for girls, by papers and conferences, in France and abroad. At the European Union, she was a member of the expert group that produced the 'ETAN report' on Women in Academia in Western Europe (2000); she was a French member of the Women and Science ('Helsinki') Group at DG Research between 1999 and her retirement at the end of 2005. A co-founder and the first president of the French Femmes & Sciences (Women and Science) association, she is now its President of honour. A founding member of the European Platform of Women Scientists EPWS, she was its Vice-President (2009-2017) and is its President since 2017. She is involved in various activities related to scientific culture.

She is the author of 85 refereed papers in physics, of 45 papers in the field of promotion of science among young people and on the analysis of the situation of women in scientific and technical careers.

Marcela Linková

Chair, ERAC SWG GRI

Marcela Linková PhD is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences where she directs the Centre for Gender and Science. She has a doctorate in sociology from Charles University in Prague. Her research focuses on sociology of gendered organizations, research careers, governance of research and research assessment from a gender perspective. Marcela also examines the material-discursive practices through which gender equality policies and initiatives are adopted and implemented at the European and Czech country levels. She is the chair of the ERAC Standing Working Group on Gender in Research and Innovation; before she was the co-chair of the Commission’s Helsinki Group on Gender in Research and Innovation. She is active in developing policy solutions for gender equality in research at the Czech and EU levels. Marcela has been involved in several EU funded projects; most recently, she is the coordinator of Horizon 2020 GENDERACTION project. She has served on expert and advisory bodies of the European Commission and in the Czech Republic. She publishes on gender equality in research, and in together with Mary Frank Fox and Kjersten Bunker Whittington contributed to the 4^th edition of the Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (2017). She is an alumna of the International Visitor Leadership Programme “Women in STEM”.

Zou Xiaoqiao

Vice President, Women Leadership Academy

ZOU Xiaoqiao is now the Vice-President of Women Leadership Academy and a visiting professor of China University of Political Science and Law. 
 

Zou Xiaoqiao graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University and continued her further study and training in Canberra University in Australia, University of Chicago in the United States and the University of Los Andes in Colombia. She served as Director-General of the International Department of the All-China Women’s Federation. As an independent expert, she worked as a Member and Vice-Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women from 2005-2016. For years, she has been involved in promoting women’s human rights, gender equality and empowerment of women both locally and internationally. She had opportunities to participate in number of regional, international and the UN conferences on women and social development, such as the Third World Conference on Women (Nairobi), the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing), the 23^rdspecial session of the UN General Assembly, the International Conference on Population and Development, the World Summit for Social Development, as well as UN Commission on the Status of Women and others.  
 

Zou Xiaoqiao also participated in a great deal of thematic discussions and seminars and made speeches on issues of gender equality and women in leadership, women in economic development, women in education and training, and women’s human rights protection and etc. 

Cecilia Christersson

Pro Vice Chancellor, Malmö University

Cecilia Christersson is the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Global Engagement and Challenge Based Learning at Malmö University, where she previously served as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, with education, internationalisation and quality development, in her portfolio. As a dentist, holding a PhD and a specialist licence in prosthetic dentistry, Cecilia is associate professor in Prosthetic Dentistry and Dental Materials Science. She was part of introducing problem based learning to the dental curriculum in the 1990s´and she served as the chair of the department of Technology and Dental Material Science at the Faculty of Odontology prior to her DVC appointment. As the Director of the Dental Education Admission Committee she leads the work to establish an alternative admission procedure to widen access to dental education. During 2012 - 2013 Cecilia held the position as the second female president for the Association of Dental Education in Europe (ADEE). During her presidency special attention was given to the recognition of professional qualifications which enables the free movement of professionals within the EU. In 2015 she led an international conference in Tanzania on behalf of SUHF, IUA, HEEFA, and SIDA – Learning together for Change: advancing education for all through higher education. This conference resulted in the “Arusha declaration on Higher education for All” which was handed over to UNESCO in preparation for the upcoming SDG framework. Overseeing the Malmö University´s agenda on global engagement she also serves as the chair of the national committee for refugee related issues in the Association of Higher Education Insitutions in Sweden (SUHF) since 2016. Special emphasis is directed to promote changes of policies and regulations to improve access to HE for academic refugees. Cecilia is the recipient of the Value Based Leadership Award of the International Beliefs and Values Institute (USA) and the Janne Carlsson Award for Academic Leadership of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (Sweden). She embraces a wide international academic network with focus on value based leadership and equity education for sustainable development.

Fatima Marinho

Former Vice Rector, University or Porto

Maria de Fátima Marinho graduated in Romance languages from the faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Porto, where she has taught 19th and 20th century Portuguese literature since 1976. In 1987, she obtained her Doctorate with a thesis on Surrealism in Portugal. She is a Full Professor and has been Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (2010-2014). She was Vice-President of the University of Porto from 2014 to 2018 and has now returned to her duty as full Professor at the Faculty of Arts. She is also Visiting Professor for PhD in Portuguese Studies of the University of Etvös Lorand in Budapest, Hungary, and Visiting Professor of the University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Lucyna Wozniak

Vice Rector, Medical University of Lodz

Professor Lucyna Woźniak, PhD, DSc, graduated from the Technical University of Lodz. After PhD from the Polish Academy of Sciences and a post-doc in Kings College London, she got habilitation (DSc.) from The Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies Polish Academy of Sciences. Professor at the Medical University of Lodz (www.umed.pl) working in the field of medicinal chemistry and molecular biology. Research: diabetes in context of gestational diabetes (GDM) as an early predictor of T2M in women population, metabolomics, lipidomics. Vice Rector for Science and International Affairs, Head of Chair of Medicinal Biology & Department of Structural Biology at MUL, chairwoman of EIT HEALTH INNOSTARS (www.eithealth.eu/innostars) Supervisory Board, and Member of Supervisory Board of EIT HEALTH (www.eithealth.eu). Member of High Level Group on maximizing impact of EU Research and Innovation Programmes (Pascal Lamy Group), and Strategic Innovation Board of EIT HEALTH.

Anke Lipinsky

Senior Researcher, GESIS

Dr. Anke Lipinsky is senior researcher at GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Team Center of Excellence Women and Science CEWS. Anke's research focuses on impact assessments, evaluation and analysis of policy styles and their implementation in the field of gender and research in the European Union. She holds a PhD in Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Regensburg. Anke carried out several mappings of gender equality policies in public research in the EU and policy environment analyses (2012 -2014) and participated in EU-funded projects in FP6, FP7 and Horizon 2020 ENCOUWOMSCI; PLATWOMSCI, GenPORT; INTEGER, and GEECCO2017-2021. She chaired an EC expert group which carried out an ex-ante impact assessment study to strengthen the role of structural change policies in the European Research Area (2013). Anke currently is member of the advisory boards of SMARTmaps (2015-2018), GenderNetz (2017-2020) and NORDICORE(2017-2021). She worked as visiting researcher at Northeastern University, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Boston (USA) in Autumn 2018; is member of two Horizon 2020 advisory groups "Gender" and "Science with and for Society"and advised several EU-presidencies in the field of Gender Equality; member of the International Advisory Board of the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education in Bergen 2012, Wien 2014, Paris 2016 and Dublin 2018.

Mathias Wullum Nielsen

Aarhus University

Mathias Wullum Nielsen is an assistant professor at the Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is a sociologist by training and holds a PhD degree in social science. Nielsen’s research focuses on gender in science including how gender diversity is linked to research outcomes. In 2015, he defended his PhD dissertation with the title “New and Persistent Gender Equality Challenges in Academia”. Nielsen recently ended a two-year stint as a postdoc in Gendered Innovations at Stanford University. He has published numerous papers on the topic of gender in science, including pieces in Nature, Nature Human Behaviour, PNAS, Journal of Informetrics, Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Science and Public Policy, Studies in Higher Education and Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research.

Jeff Hearn

Professor of Gender Studies, Örebro University

Jeff Hearn is: Professor Emeritus, Management and Organisation, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Senior Professor, Gender Studies, Örebro University, Sweden; Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK; Professor Extraordinarius, Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa; Fellow, Academy for the Social Sciences (UK); and honorary doctor in Social Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. He is co-chair, RINGS: International Research Association of Institutions of Advanced Gender Studies; comanaging editor of Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality book series; co-editor, NORMA: the International Journal for Masculinity Studies. His current research focuses on gender, sexuality, violence, work, organisations, management, policy, and transnational processes. He has been involved in many European research projects, including CROME, CAHRV, genSET, GenPORT, as well as being co-author of the EC report, Gender and Excellence in the Making, 2004, and author of many texts on academia, education and ICTs. Recent books include: Rethinking Transnational Men: Beyond, Between and Within Nations, co-edited with Marina Blagojević and Katherine Harrison, Routledge, 2013, Routledge; Men of the World: Genders, Globalizations, Transnational Times, Sage, 2015; Men’s Stories for a Change: Ageing Men Remember, with the Older Men’s Memory Work Group, Common Ground, 2016; Revenge Pornography: Gender, Sexuality and Motivations, with Matthew Hall, Routledge, 2017; Engaging Youth in Activist Research and Pedagogical Praxis: Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Race, co-edited with Tamara Shefer, Kopano Ratele and Floretta Boonzaier, Routledge, 2018; Unsustainable Institutions of Men: Transnational Dispersed Centres, Gender Power, Contradictions, coedited with Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila and Marina Hughson, Routledge, 2019.

Gulsun Saglamer

President, Ewora

Prof. Dr. Gulsun Saglamer, Former Rector of Istanbul Technical University (1996-2004) is a professor of architecture at Istanbul Technical University. She graduated from Istanbul Technical University with a Master of Architecture degree in 1967 and received her PhD from the same university in 1973. She became Associate Professor in 1978, Full Professor in 1988 at ITU.  She taught Architectural Design, Computer Aided Architectural Design, Logic Model of Design, Architectural Design Methods and Theories at ITU since 1973 until she retired in 2012.

She carried out her post-doctoral studies at the Martin Centre, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, UK 1975-1976 and continued her studies at the Martin Centre for short periods in 1987 and 1989.  She was a member of the Scientific Committee of TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey) INTAG between 1990 and 1996. Prof Sağlamer was invited to Queen's University of Belfast as a Visiting Professor between 1993 and 1996 and was also invited to be an external examiner at the same university for four years between 1999 and 2003.  She is a member of the Editorial Boards of “Open House International”, “International Journal for Housing Science and Its Applications”, “ITU Journal AZ/ Architecture Design” (in Turkish). She has been on numerous architectural competition juries at national  level and also at international level such as the jury for the prestigious Daimler-Chrysler-UNESCO Mondialogo Engineering Prize 2005.

She was a Board Member of EUA (European University Association) (2005-2009) and a member of the Steering Committee of the EUA’s Institutional Evaluation Programme (IEP) (2009-2013), a chair of evaluation teams in IEP evaluations since 2011 and a member of the Research Policy Working Group of EUA since its establishment in 2005 till 2017.  She has been an Executive Committee Member (2003-2021) of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) and the President of CMU (Community of Mediterranean Universities) (2012-2016). She was invited to the Marie Curie People Programme (EC) Advisory Group for five terms: 2006-2018 and has been the Chair of the Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions Advisory Group in Horizon 2020 (2013-2016). She was invited to the” Expert Working Group on The External Research Funding of Universities”, established by the EC (2007-2008). She was a member of the Steering Committee of the OECD/IMHE Quality Teaching Project (2009-2012).

She is a Member of the Board of Trustees of Kadir Has University (2006-2014)(2020-2024) and the President of the Council for Technology and Technoparks in Turkey (2006-2010). She is the Founder and a Board Member of ITU’s Technology Park and Incubation Centre, ARI Techno-City and a Board Member of ITU Development Foundation (2009-2021). She is the founder of ITU Development Foundation’s K12 Schools: Nursery (1998), Primary School (2001), High School (2006) to provide better work-life balance for ITU academic staff. She was the Chair of the Academic Council of these schools for 8 years (2000-2008)

Professional experience

Gulsun Saglamer is a registered architect at the Chamber of Architects of Turkey, Istanbul. She designed several important architectural projects and received awards at national and international levels such as First Prize in the Architectural Competition of the Aydin-Kusadasi Tourism Complex, Organized by the Ministry of Public Works, 1982; Best Buildings of the Year 2000 by Kolleksiyon, ‘Sedat Üründül Nursery’. Same project also received a prize from OECD PEB 2nd Compendium of Exemplary Educational Facilities, 2000.  She designed a five-star hotel building with 320 beds (Trabzon-Grand Zorlu), a housing group with 360 dwelling units (Trabzon-ATAŞEHİR), a research centre, and villas in different parts of Turkey.  She has served as jury member in many national architectural design competitions. She is the founder and president of “the Association for Architectural Education” (MIMED)(ArchED)(1997-2019) MİMED has been organizing very prestigious “Architectural Students Projects Competitions” since 2001 at National level.  She is the first female Vice-Rector (1992-1995) and the first female Rector (1996-2004) of Istanbul Technical University since its establishment in 1773.

Research interests and experience

Major research areas are Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD), Architectural Design Theories, Computer Applications in Housing, CAAD of Dwelling Units, Morphological Studies of House Forms, Housing for Low Income Groups,Immigration from Rural to Urban Areas, Squatter Settlements, Comparative Studies in Housing, Space Syntax in Housing, CAAD in Housing, Higher Education and Research Management, and Women Academics in Science and Engineering. She did her PhD in CAAD in 1973. She is the pioneer of the CAAD courses at undergraduate and graduate levels at ITU and supervised 11 PhD theses together with 25 master theses at ITU Graduate Schools.

She coordinated a Med Campus Project titled “Housing for Low Income Groups in Turkey” under the 4th Framework Programme in 1995 and established “The Housing Research Centre” at ITU in 1997. This centre has taken part in many research projects and has organised international meetings for international networks. This centre also designed a master degree programme for “Earthquake Resistant Housing”(2000- ).

Prof. Saglamer established a centre at Istanbul Technical University titled “Women Studies in Science Engineering and Technology“ in 2009 and served as the director of this centre 2009-2012. She organised the “European Women Rectors Conferences” at ITU in Istanbul four times (2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014). Prof.Saglamer also chaired the “European Women Rector Platform” (EWRP) that was established in 2010. She has led the ITU team in 5 of the EC funded (FP6 and FP7) projects on Women in STEM (2006-2017). In December, 2015 European Women Rectors Association (EWORA) has been established under the Belgian Law in Brussels and Prof. Saglamer is the founding Board member and the President of EWORA. She is re-elected as the President of EWORA for the second period of 2019-2023. She has been representing Turkey in ERAC Standing Working Group on Gender in Research and Innovation (Former Helsinki Group) since 2o18. She has been  an “External Assessor of Senior Academic Leadership Initiative 2020” of the Ireland Higher Education Authority.

Prof. Saglamer has a great interest in graduate programmes and under her leadership all the graduate programmes of ITU were restructured and new graduate programmes were created on “Advanced Technologies in Engineering” in 2000. The aim of these programmes was to train doctoral candidates for employment not only in academia but also in industry. This project was funded by the State Planning Organisation of Turkey and was successful in attracting funds from industry as well.

She has continued her work on graduate programmes after stepping down from her rectorship and established a research group on “Doctoral Education in Architecture”, and organised the first Conference on “Doctoral Education on Housing Studies” in 2008. After completing the pilot study at international level on “Doctoral Education in Architecture” she co-chaired the first international workshop on this subject at ITU in November 2011. She has established a research group on “Doctoral Education in Architecture and co-authored the book titled “Doctoral Education in Architecture” by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

She is also representing Turkey in the network titled “European Research in Architecture and Urbanism” and chaired the EURAU 2014 Conference on “Composite Cities” and Co-authored a book titled “Reinterpreting and Restructuring Composite Cities” (2016).

She has given over 90 keynote speeches and invited lectures on architecture and different aspects of higher education (such as research policy, doctoral education, quality assurance, quality enhancement, funding) at international meetings besides her keynotes on gender equality in HE&R, that has been her major research area since 2008. 

Other significant events and prizes

• Honoris Causa by
  • Carleton University, Canada (2001),
  • Universitatea de Nord Din Baia Mare University, Romania (2002),
  • Ovidius University of Constantza in Romania (2009),
  • Queens’ University Belfast (2018)
• American Institute of Architects (AIA) Honorary Fellowship (Hon FAIA) in 2006
• “Leonardo da Vinci Medal” by SEFI (Société Européenne Pour la Formation Ingénieurs - European Society for Engineering Education) in 2005-2006
• Founding Board Member, Global Relations Forum (2009-2017)
• Member of European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters since 2011
• Member of the Selection Committee for Fulbright Prize 2014
• Chair of the Selection Committee of the Vehbi Koç Educational Prize, 2015.

She has led the ITU team in 5 of the EC funded (FP6 and FP7) projects on Women in STEM (2006-2017)

1. UNICAFE–Survey of the University Career of Female Scientists at Life Sciences versus Technical Universities, funded by European Commission, 2006-2008

2. Meta Analysis – Meta-analysis of gender and science research, funded by European Commission, 2008-2010:

3. SHEMERA–Euro-Mediterranean research cooperation on gender and science: SHE Euro Mediterranean Research Area, funded by European Commission, 2011-2014

4. FESTA–Female Empowerment in Science and Technology Academia, funded by European Commission, 2012-2017 http://www.festa-europa.eu/

FESTA Resistance Handbook on Resistance to Gender Equality in Academi a (www.resge.eu)

Authors: Gülsün Sağlamer, Mine Tan, Hülya Çağlayan, Nina Almgren, Minna Salminen-Karlson,Liv       Baisner, Eva Sphia Myers, Gitte Toftgaard Jorgensen, Manuela Aye, sabine Bausch, Pat O’connor,          Clare O’Hagan, Ita Richardson,Mario Conci, Georgi Apostolov, Irina Topuzova

5. COST Gender STE, Science, Technology, Environment. genderSTE is a network of policy makers and experts committed to promoting fair representation of women and better integration of gender analysis in research and innovation http://www.cost.eu/about_cost/strategy/targeted_networks/genderste

Kerstin Tham

Vice Chancellor, Malmö University

Short bio Kerstin Tham Professor Kerstin Tham is since November 2015 the first female Vice Chancellor of Malmö University, Sweden. She previously served as Deputy Vice Chancellor at Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm. She has extensive experience from research, teaching and academic leadership positions within the field of health sciences.

Professor Tham is professor in occupational therapy (2009) and has a doctoral (phd) degree in Neurology (1998). Her research focuses on aspects of rehabilitation after stroke and the overall aim is to build knowledge, develop and evaluate personcentered health services for people with stroke and their families. Professor Tham has conducted internationally unique research identifying the lived experience of individuals with neuropsychological impairments after stroke, as unilateral neglect, by applying an occupational science perspective. The research has contributed to the development of new models, methods and strategies for rehabilitation after stroke. Professor Tham has extensive numbers of scientific publications and has served as supervisor of 15 doctoral students at Karolinska Institutet.

Professor Tham has lead the strategic development of Malmö university which is the youngest university in Sweden. When the Swedish government decided on giving Malmö university the full research university status 2018, she has focused her work on strengthening the research and research education in interdisciplinary research centers and programs addressing complex societal challenges such as sustainable city development, migration and integration, life- and material sciences, internet of things and people and learning for change.

Malmö university has a strong global and societal engagement and has during the years built and extensive experience in widening participation in higher education. Collaboration with different societal stakeholders within public, private and the nonprofit sectors is very important for the further development of the university and professor Tham is therefore involved in several national, regional and local boards.

Liu Jinan

President, World Women University Presidents Forum

Professor Liu Jinan is the president of Organizing Committee of World Women University Presidents Forum, president of Women Leadership Academy, honorary president of Communication University of China (CUC), honorary president of Nanguang College of CUC and the member of National Committee of CinemaReview.

In February 1939, Professor Liu Jinan was born in Xiaogan city of Hubei province in China. Graduated from Peking University in 1965,she hasworked as a teacherand then professor, doctoral supervisor in CUC (former Beijing Broadcasting Institute)sincethen.From 1990to 2006, she had beenthe president of CUC (former Beijing Broadcasting Institute). In 2004, Prof. Liu Jinan founded a modern college named Nanguang College of CUCandshe was the president of Nanguang College of CUC from 2004 to 2010.
 

Since 2001 when launching the World Women University Presidents Forum, Professor Liu Jinan has successfully heldeightmain forums and tensub-forums.She took the lead in filming the first TV series of World Women University Presidents (15 episodes) and publishing the “World Women’s Universities and Women University Presidents” book series (50 books) which is another achievement of WWUPF. 

In October 2004, she was awarded the "2004 Outstanding Achievement Award" by the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP).