Mini-symposium: Gender Equity in the Natural Sciences

Program

13:00 Welcome (by Dean John Renner Hansen, Moderator Anja Philip, and BIO-SFU)

13:15 Nancy H. Hopkins, MIT, leading advocate for women in science 'The changing status of Women in Science'

14:00 Mathias Wullum Nielsen, Danish Center for Studies on Research and Research Policy Gender inequality in Academia in Europe

14:20 Coffee break

14:50 Panel discussion 'Women in the Danish Natural Sciences'
Moderator:
Anja Philip, Science journalist, known from DR2’s “VidenOm”

Panel members:
Nancy Hopkins, Professor of Biology at MIT, member of the National Academy of Sciences
John Renner Hansen, Dean of the Faculty of Science at UCPH
Peter Munk Christiansen, Chairman of the Danish Council for Independent Research
Maja Horst, Head of Dept. of Media, Cognition, and Communication, Faculty of Humanities, UCPH
Anja C. Andersen, Associate Professor of Astrophysics and member of The Board, UCPH
Mathias Wullum Nielsen, PhD Student, the Danish Center for Studies on Research and Research Policy

16:15 Refreshments and informal discussion

The event is open to all pre-registered participants. Deadline for registration is November 25 at www.bio.ku.dk/gender-equity