| In this edition you can read about gender roles in the AI World, sex and gender in heart interventions, the winners of the DEWIS Award 2020, the results of the annual Women Professors Monitor and an interview with Aukje Hassoldt, Dean of TPM. |
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Professor Aukje Hassoldt, Dean of TPM |
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| An interview with Aukje Hassoldt, Dean of the faculty of TPM |
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| DEWIS is interviewing academics at TU Delft to talk about diversity at work, women and academic leadership and inclusive, safe working environments. Today’s interview is with Aukje Hassoldt, Dean of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. |
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| Look back DEWIS Webinar Symposium 2020 |
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| This year’s theme of the DEWIS Symposium 2020 was gender differences in scientific disciplines. On 1 December, we welcomed Pascale Fung, Professor at the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science & Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), who talked about gender roles in the AI World. Hanneke Takkenberg, Professor of Clinical Decision Making in Cardio-Thoracic Interventions at the department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, discussed sex and gender in heart interventions. |
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| Librae network winners DEWIS Award 2020 |
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We are proud to announce that winner of the DEWIS Award 2020 is the Librae network for female students in STEM, i.e. in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The goal of Librae is to promote gender equality and stimulate diversity by supporting female students by inspiring them by role models and by sharing their experiences. Congratulations!
View the full ceremony here. |
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| Presentation Monitor Women Professors 2020 |
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| TU Delft has the lowest percentage of female professors of all the Dutch universities. The results of the annual Women Professors Monitor show that at present, 16.9% of the professors at TU Delft are women. This is an increase of 0.8 percentage points in comparison with 2018. The growth rate is lower than the average growth rate of 1.1 percentage points. TU Delft’s aim was for 15% of its professors to be female by 2020. This goal has been achieved. |
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| Would you like to be a mentor? |
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| We regularly get requests from female TU Delft scientists who would like to discuss issues and questions related to their career (development) with a mentor. We are therefore looking for new mentors, scientists (M/F) from our university who have the position, experience and capacities to assist female scientists with questions regarding their development. |
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| Call open: For Women in Science Rising Talent Prizes 2021 |
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| L’Oréal Netherlands, the Netherlands Commission for Unesco and the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) have joined hands to offer national prizes to young female researchers as part of the Netherlands L’Oréal Unesco For Women in Science programme. The Call is open from November 30th 2020 until January 20th 2021. |
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| Sign up for Meet the Professor Delft 2021 |
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| Does a dialogue with the next generation make you enthusiastic? Sign up for Meet the Professor Delft 2021! The event is aimed to introduce primary school kids to our professors, and vice versa. We would hereby like to send a warm invitation to the TU Delft’s female professors to participate in this event. It is important to note that the scheduled class will be in Dutch. You can apply here until 15 December 2020. |
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| Are you looking for a mentor? DEWIS has developed a mentoring programme for female postdocs, (tenure track) assistant and associate professors. People learn most in practice, 'learning by doing' and through others, through conversations and networks, 'social learning'. |
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| In the spotlight |
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| The Women in Data Science (WiDS) podcast, produced at Stanford University, launched a new episode featuring Femke Vossepoel, Associate Professor in Geoscience and Engineering. Professor Vossepoel explains how data assimilation tools can be used to improve COVID-19 forecasting models. Listen now. |
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| Happy Holidays! |
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17 December 2020 - 11 January 2021 |
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The DEWIS Office will be closed until 11 January 2020. The DEWIS board whishes everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Stay safe! |
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