By redesigning its career development programmes, the Austrian Science Fund FWF intends to initiate trailblazing changes to promote equal opportunities and innovation. This would provide a huge modernization thrust to the academic system as a whole, as Edith Gößnitzer notes in this interview. Gößnitzer, a chemist and expert on gender equality, is convinced that the […] Continue reading ““The excellent women researchers are right here””
Electrical engineer Ioanna Giouroudi has developed a portable sensor in mobile phone format that can be used to examine rivers, wells or swimming pools for pathogens. She recently moved her professional focus from active research to administration: since October Giouroudi has been coordinating doctoral training at TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology). Continue reading “Strategy and focus”
Some of the world’s most impoverished habitats are found in the Southwest of Australia. There, biologist and Schrödinger Fellow Christiana Staudinger has found the ideal setting to investigate how plants and soils adapt to such harsh conditions. Surprisingly, this region’s flora is also full of life and very diverse, as the young scholar reports from […] Continue reading “Plant species interactions in Perth”
Numerous reforms have brought fundamental change to working conditions in the science field. Equality objectives were implemented in very diverse ways, as investigations in the context of a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF have shown. Conclusion: there is still a long way to go to equality of opportunity. Continue reading “The stony road to equality”