Portraits
"Only when the institutional memory of the university takes up the material and immaterial legacy of its female researchers, inscribes it again and again in the practices of remembrance and keeps it alive through critical discourse, can the young female academics teaching today actually be shown role models who are visible and remain visible."
Anne G. Kosfeld, Chief Gender Equality Officer
Portraits
Dr Hanin Karawani Khoury
Humboldt Fellow
Hanin Karawani Khoury normally conducts research at the University of Haifa in Israel, more than 4,000 kilometres away from Oldenburg. She is investigating the connection between hearing loss and cognitive decline - and how both can be slowed down. As a Humboldt Fellow, she is currently working at the university and in the Hearing4all cluster of excellence.
Dr Pauline Fleischmann
Sponsorship award "For Women in Science"
Dr Pauline Fleischmann has been a Research Group Fellow in the Collaborative Research Centre "Magnetoreception and Navigation of Vertebrates" at the UOL since summer 2022. She received the "For Women in Science" award (German UNESCO Commission and L'Oréal Foundation) for her doctoral thesis. The prize money was used to purchase four bicycle trailers. "The trailers can be borrowed free of charge for one semester by young parents among the students and doctoral students of the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and from the Collaborative Research Centre," explains Fleischmann.
Adenike Adenaya
DAAD Prize
The microbiologist is not only working on an unusual research topic - the effects of antibiotics on marine bacteria in the tiny top layer of the sea surface. She also does a lot of voluntary work, for example in the Buddy Programme run by the university's International Office. "I benefited from this programme myself when I came here and would now like to help other international students settle in Oldenburg," she says.
Dr Gözel Shakeri
Ossietzky Fellowship
The Computing Science graduate wants to make online grocery shopping more sustainable. She specialises in human-machine interactions, i.e. the collaboration between humans and computers and other automated systems. The university is funding her research with a Carl von Ossietzky Young Researchers' Fellowship. "The great thing about Computing Science is that it allows me to realise things that are really important to me," she says.
Elke Hoxha
"Chief mate" with lots of experience
Elke Hoxha is the longest-serving member of staff at the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) and works in the Oldenburg office. Despite years of routine, she never gets bored -
because no two days are the same.
Prof Dr Ana Predojević
Passion for quantum light
The experimental physicist will be a Helene Visiting Professor at the University of Oldenburg in 2023.
In the meantime, she has conducted research in Spain, Austria, Germany and Sweden - and found that Spain offers the best conditions for women among these countries. "There are many female physics students there and also many female professors. It is obviously more natural and socially accepted there that physics is a subject for women."
Dr Hilkje Hänel
The role models are missing
"The fewer women there are in higher positions, the fewer women remain in the subject - for example, because there are no role models. In my view, there is a lot of catching up to do."
Prof Dr Renate Scheidler
Women and the leaky pipeline
She teaches and conducts research at US and Canadian universities on the application of algebraic number theory in cryptography. In Canada, she helped establish the "Women in numbers" network. In 2022, she is a Helene Lange Visiting Professor at UOL and wants to support young female researchers in her field.
Prof Dr Kunz-Drolshagen
Theoretical physics
"We must work together to significantly improve the scientific prospects for young women in the subject of physics and ensure that more female physicists are appointed to professorships or given senior positions in industry."
Prof Dr Barbara Moschner
Empirical teaching and learning research
"For me, challenging and supporting young female academics means giving them the freedom to pursue their ideas and questions. To give them opportunities ..."
