![One of the twenty women who will be funded as particularly talented scientists by the Falling Walls Foundation as Female Science Talent in the coming year: Adenike Adenaya [Photo: S. Riexinger].](/f/5/_processed_/b/a/csm_AAdenaya_sri_baa2_6a0284ff8a.jpeg)
![One of the twenty women who will be funded as particularly talented scientists by the Falling Walls Foundation as Female Science Talent in the coming year: Adenike Adenaya [Photo: S. Riexinger].](/f/5/_processed_/b/a/csm_AAdenaya_sri_baa2_e5d6800895.jpeg)
The PhD student in the ICBM working groups 'Biology of Geological Processes' and 'Processes and Sensing of Marine Interfaces' Adenike Adenaya is one of the exceptionally talented 20 women who will be supported by the Falling Walls Foundation in the coming year. This was announced by the Foundation to the young scientist's great delight earlier this month.
The Falling Walls Foundation is a non-profit institution based in Berlin. Among other things, it organises an international science conference every year around the day the Berlin Wall fell. The foundation was established with the support of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Berlin Senator for Education, Science and Research.
With the international promotional programme 'Female Science Talents, Intensive Track', the foundation aims to "inspire and empower talented women in science who have a strong research background to take the next step in their career". To do this, it matches female scientists with outstanding female leaders and high-profile mentors, increases their international visibility and helps them build a valuable scientific network.
"This is a great success," comments Prof. Dr. Oliver Wurl, head of the 'Processes and Sensing of Marine Interfaces‘ research group at the ICBM, on Adenaya's election to the circle of female scientific talents, and at the same time he regrets that the dedicated young scientist, who delivers very good research results and brings her own financial resources to the university, as a scholarship holder does not yet enjoy all the benefits at the university like the other PhD students.
Adenaya's research is currently dedicated to a special aspect related to gossamer films that repeatedly form on the ocean surface. They influence the exchange of climate-relevant gases, heat and particles between the ocean and the atmosphere. Antibiotic residues resulting from human activities have already been detected in coastal waters. And so antibiotics could also reach surface films and influence bacterial communities there and thus ultimately exchange processes.