WOMEN IN SCIENCE WEEK 2024

We invite you all to join us for Women in Science Week (WISW) 2024 (5-11 February 2024) where you can participate in FREE webinars as we all believe in open science.

Meet our Keynote Speakers for the WISW 2024

Pavithra Ravi

Pavi is a PhD student and researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. Her dissertation focuses on AI concepts to automate ground-based satellite collision avoidance procedures. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering in 2019, and Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2021, from Purdue University (Indiana, USA). Alongside her PhD, she works as a software developer to support the operations of sounding rockets at DLR. Pavi's hobbies include travelling, playing table tennis, and talking to strangers. She is from Singapore.

Cécile Deprez

Cécile Deprez (she/they), MSC, is a researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) on the topic of satellite positioning. In addition to their research, Cécile co-founded and coordinates two women and gender minorities networks as well as the Pride@DLR and DLR Internationals initiatives. As a side activity, Cécile is active as a public speaker on the topics of sexism, allyship and microaggressions in STEM fields. As a volunteer, they co-founded and manage Sexisme Flop, an association calling out brands making use of sexist advertising, and acts as coordinator of the Women in Aerospace Europe (WIA-E) working group on Visibility of Women in STEM.

Prof. Mónica Hernandez

Mónica, with over two decades of experience in the areas of Corrosion, Asset Integrity, and Sustainability Management, passionately advocates for diversity and inclusion, making meaningful strides toward empowering women in STEM. In 2023, her unwavering commitment to this cause earned her a place among the top 5 finalists for the "Women that Build Awards" by Globant, cementing her role as an inspirational leader in North America.

Bojan Ambrožič

Charlene Ngassam Tounzoua

Every scientist probably remembers the first time they witnessed the magic of science in action, for Charlene it was the cations flame test, 2 decades ago, in a little school at the feet of Mount Cameroun (West Africa). Fast forward to 2017, Charlene was graduating with a master's degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of Liege (Belgium) and embarking on the transforming journey of the doctoral thesis. Today, Charlene works as a R&D grants consultant at Deloitte Belgium, helping innovators obtain the financial support they need to bring their ideas to LIFE.

Teresa Pérez-Prado

Dr. Teresa Pérez-Prado heads since 2008, the Sustainable Metallurgy group at IMDEA Materials Institute. She was Division Leader between 2014 and 2017, and Deputy Director between 2017 and 2021. From 2018 to 2022 she was Manager of the programme on Structural Materials at the Spanish National Science Foundation. Dr. Pérez-Prado got a PhD in Physics at the Complutense University in Madrid in 1998 and an MBA at INSEAD, France, in 2008. After a 2-year postdoctoral stay at the University of California in San Diego, USA, she joined the National Center for Metals Research (Madrid, Spain) in 2001, where she was granted a Tenured Scientist position in 2004. She currently is a member of the Scientific Council of several international institutions including the NOMATEN Center of Excellence (Polans, 2018-2023), the IRT Jules Verne (France), the Henry Royce Institute (UK), and the European Space Agency (2018-2024). She has published more than 150 papers (h50, 9500 citations) in the field of physical metallurgy and advanced manufacturing.

Arman Tursunov

Dr. Arman Tursunov is a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn. With a Ph.D, DSc., and RNDr academic titles in theoretical physics and astrophysics, his research focuses on black holes, high-energy cosmic rays, and multimessenger astronomy. He has authored over 50 papers, for which he received multiple awards. In his research, he combines theoretical knowledge with experimental and observational experiences.

Alba Garzón-Manjón

Alba Garzón-Manjón is working at at the Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2) as a Senior Researcher, and as of January 1st , 2023, she has assumed her new role as a Ramón y Cajal fellow within the group of Advanced electron Nanoscopy (GAe-N). Her research is dedicated to the fundamental goal of revolutionizing sustainable energy production and energy storage through the development, characterization, and correlation of novel catalysts using advanced electron microscopy techniques, with emphasis in in-situ gas and liquid cell STEM. She is leading the research line on advanced STEM in-situ characterization of energy nanomaterials at the at the Joint Electron Microscopy Center at ALBA (JEMCA).