Gender and Diversity

During the Minisymposium 2021, we ceremoniously awarded Katrin Gugler with the “CRC 1333 – Best Master´s Thesis” of the first funding period. Her work on “Simulation of Rh-catalyzed asymmetric arylation reaction mechanisms” also found it’s way into a pubilcation of Organometallics. Once again: congratulations, Katrin! Today, she is a doctoral researcher in the Kästner Group … Read more

During two half-day sessions on April 13th and April 29th, 2021 our female doctoral researchers had a chance to have the online group seminar: Who am I when and where? The Challenge of Acting in Different Roles: Mindful (Self-)Leadership. During the seminar, participants discussed the different roles they take on for others and which expectations … Read more

As part of the skills development training offered for female doctoral researchers,  the workshop program “Resilience in Academia” took place from mid-August to mid-November, 2020. The goal of the workshops was to build resilience in the participants, to provide them with skills and strategies that enable them to deal with crisis situations. These strategies were … Read more

An essential part of the CRC 1333 is the collaborative work in interdisciplinary teams. Which dynamics influence the workflow of such a team? What is a team as opposed to a random group of people? These were just some of the questions asked and answered during the workshop “Working in (intercultural) teams” on 13th October … Read more

On Monday 27. July 2020 the second workshop series on (Self-) Leadership for female scientists started. The 1-day seminar took place in the Hospitalhof in Stuttgart and as before Dr. Sabine Horst from QuinteSentio was our coach.We started by introducing ourselves and our understanding in leadership by choosing a picture which we associate with leadership. … Read more

On Monday 27. July 2020 the Kick-Off event to our 2nd program on (Self-)Leadership for female scientists  took place. As before Dr. Sabine Horst from QuinteSentio is  leading the program. This module´s topic was:“Leadership in academic hierarchies and projects”. The next module will take place on 13. October 2020. It will be on “Collaboration, working in … Read more

Jun.- Prof. Maria Fyta is one of the principal investigators of project C06. Within the CRC 1333 she  works on simulations of materials properties and processes on various scales. We have asked her in this short video to tell us about her experiences pursuing an academic career in physics as a woman. Furthermore, she tells us … Read more

Mentoring and networking are invaluable tools for promoting junior talent. Therefore, the CRC 1333 was very happy to join the Athena group of Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research (MPI-FKF) in early 2019. Therein, the CRC 1333 has co-initiated a subject-specific mentoring program for female early career researchers in chemistry, materials sciences and physics and … Read more