News

Ursula Keller wins “Swiss Nobel” Marcel Benoist Prize- for pioneering work in ultrafast lasers

Farewell: the NCCR MUST ended - on June 30, 2022

MUST2022 Conference- a great success!

New scientific highlights- by MUST PIs Wörner, Chergui, and Richardson

FELs of Europe prize for Jeremy Rouxel- “Development or innovative use of advanced instrumentation in the field of FELs”

Ruth Signorell wins Doron prizefor pioneering contributions to the field of fundamental aerosol science

New FAST-Fellow Uwe Thumm at ETH- lectures on Topics in Femto- and Attosecond Science

International Day of Women and Girls in Science- SSPh asked female scientists about their experiences

New scientific highlight- by MUST PIs Milne, Standfuss and Schertler

EU XFEL Young Scientist Award for Camila Bacellar,beamline scientist and group leader of the Alvra endstation at SwissFEL

Prizes for Giulia Mancini and Rebeca Gomez CastilloICO/IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics & Ernst Haber 2021

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to RESOLV Member Benjamin List- for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis

Hans Jakob Wörner invited to give the „New Horizons Solvay Lectures” - online, October 5, 12 and 19

Unusual keynote talk at an international scientific conference- Do photons show gender bias?

NCCR MUST at Scientifica 2021- Lightning, organic solar cells, and virtual molecules

Recommended Reading

Recommended books, reports, websites on gender and science

A MIT Study on the Status on Women Faculty in Science, 1999 - a copy of the report can be downloaded here

Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, 2013
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy, 2017

Iris Bohnet, What works. Gender Equality by Design, 2016

Virgina Valian, Why so slow? The advancement of Women, 1997 Amazon

Beyond Bias and Barriers: fulfilling the Potential of Women in Science and Engineering, 2006
National Academy of Sciences (US), National Academy of Engineering (US), and Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering

Andrea S. Kramer and Alton B. Harris,
"It’s not you, it’s the workplace: Women’s conflict at work and the bias that built it.”
JohnMurrayPress

Londa Schiebinger, John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPST/schiebinger.html
For information on her research work in the area fo gendered innovations in EU/US see:
Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment Project