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International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2020 – Nikhef edition!

11 February is International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2020.

“To rise to the challenges of the 21st century, we need to harness our full potential. That requires dismantling gender stereotypes. On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, let’s pledge to end the gender imbalance in science” says UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Read more on the UN website >>

At Nikhef, we often put the focus on the extremely talented women in our institute who have a lot to say; in the press, on YouTube, on social media and in Nikhef’s own magazine, DIMENSIES. Please find below a selection of recent focuses on women in science at Nikhef.

  • Nikhef researcher Rasa Muller (KM3NeT) in Nikhef magazine DIMENSIES
Rasa Muller talks about her research and being a woman in science in Nikhef magazine DIMENSIES. Click for PDF – in Dutch)
  • Nikhef researcher Sarah Caudill (Gravitational waves – Virgo group) in Nikhef magazine DIMENSIES:
Read the interview with Nikhef researcher Sarah Caudill in DIMENSIES (click for the PDF – in Dutch)

 

  • PAPERCLIP video with Nikhef researcher Katya Govorkova who talks about her LHCb paper (English)

  • PAPERCLIP video with former Nikhef researcher Jorinde van de Vis about her paper about Higgs mechanisms.

As a cosmologist, Jorinde van de Vis, winner of the ‘For Women in Science Rising Talent prize 2019’
(read the article in Dutch) does research into particle physics of the early Universe: why is it that the Universe suddenly greatly expanded, and then stopped again? Did the Higgs particle have something to do with that? Why is there more matter (that we are made of) than antimatter? Julia Cramer and Bruno van Wayenburg really want to know. The podcast is in Dutch.

Jorinde talks about particle physics and cosmology in the 5th edition of Makkelijk Praten. Makkelijk Praten is a podcast about science, in which young researchers at Dutch universities talk about their research, their life as a scientist and everything else that involves. The podcast is in Dutch.

 

  • Nikhef women on social media

Follow our #womeninscience on Twitter:

Rasa Muller (Neutrinos) @MullerRasa
Samaya Nissanke (Gravitational Waves, UvA Astrophysics) @SamayaNissanke
Martine Oudenhoven (Science Communications) @Connect_science
Suzan du Pree (KM3NeT) @Suzan_duPree
Clara Nellist (ATLAS) @claranellist
Hannah Arnold (ATLAS) @hanruar
Els de Wolf (KM3NeT) @elsdewolf1
Jorinde van de Vis (former Nikhef, now DESY): @jorindevandevis