Christa Schleper: [Online] STEM fatale Round Table with Christa Schleper
2021-02-11 15:00 - 16:00 | Online, ISTA
Speaker: Christa Schleper
hosted by STEM fatale organizing team (Nicole Amberg)
Abstract: Please note that this Round Table is for women only.This event will undoubtedly be a great opportunity to discuss career development with a woman who fought for her position at a time in the recent past when deserving women were not given leadership roles in academia. Other topics of discussion may include what motivates women in science, why do women choose particular career paths, and anything else you want to discuss. We hope to see many of you there! It will be moderated by Hilde Janssens. Christa Schleper is professor at the University of Vienna, Austria, since 2007 and head of the Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology. Her work focusses on the ecology, physiology, molecular biology and evolution of Archaea and the development of tools for environmental genomics to characterize uncultivated microorganisms.Schleper has done her PhD at the Max-Planck-Institute in Munich, postdocs at Caltech and Univ. of Sta Barbara, California, and was assistant professor at the University of Darmstadt and full professor at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is an elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and of EMBO. She is currently speaker of the PhD program Nitrogen cycling: From single cells to ecosystems and within her ERC Advanced Grant works on Asgard Archaea, the closest living prokaryotic relatives of eukaryotes. She is also organizer of the new interdisciplinary Climate Change and Climate Crisis lecture of the Univ. of Vienna and actively supports women in science. Join using Zoom in your browser. (https://istaustria.zoom.us/j/97940712505?pwd=[REDACTED] using the Zoom app. (https://istaustria.zoom.us/j/97940712505?pwd=[REDACTED] can download the Zoom app here (https://zoom.us/support/download).
