Empowerment for Female Scientists
Minerva Alumnae speak out for International Women's Day
Each year the International Women's Day is globally celebrated on March 8th. Everyone can make a difference to help build a more gender equal world. Therefor the Minerva Stifung also feels strongly committed to women's equality and as it is a big day for inspiration and change we have asked three of our former Minerva Fellows about their thoughts on how to empower female scientists.
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About Sigal Davidi
Dr. Sigal Davidi is an architect and architectural historian as well as a lecturer at Tel Aviv University’s David Azrieli School of Architecture. In 2018 she got a Minerva Post-Doc Fellowship at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Development at the Technical University Berlin. There her research topic was „Caring for Elderly Parents in Mandatory Palestine (1920-1948): Social Modernism in Planning Old Age Homes for German Jewish Immigrants”. She researches the history of architecture in Israel, with a special interest in modern architecture and gender in pre-state Israel.
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About Moran Godess Riccitelli
From 2017 to 2020 Dr. Moran Godess Riccitelli was a Minerva Post-Doc Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Potsdam, where her research focus was on "Imagination and the Moral Proof of God: On the Significance of the Power of Imagination in Kant’s Ethicotheology". She is currently continuing her research work at the University of Potsdam.
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About Evgenia Olshvang
From 2018 to 2020 Dr. Evgenia Olshvang got a Minerva Post-Doc Fellowship at the Faculty for Chemistry and Biochemistry at Ruhr University in Bochum where she worked on “Siderophore-antimicrobial Peptide Conjugates as Novel Antimicrobial Tools” at the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry - Bioanorganic Chemistry. Since then she moved on to work in industry in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.