“Breaking Barriers in Science” - IUPAC’s Global Women’s Breakfast
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Now is your chance to meet other chemistry-loving researchers!
CHEM – Aalto University organises IUPAC’s Global Women’s Breakfast 2023 event in conjunction with the U.N. Day of Women and Girls in Science. The event takes place on the 14th February at 8.30 at the CHEM upstairs lobby.
Everyone i.e. all genders are welcome, but please pre-register by 7th February via this link: https://link.webropol.com/s/Global-womens-breakfast-chem.
Feel free to pop anytime between 08:30-10:00 to have breakfast and meet other CHEM researchers, discuss and get new ideas!
At 09:00-09:20 we have short inspirational stories by prof. Jaana Vapaavuori (Multifunctional Materials Design) and Dr. Sandra Kaabel (winner of CHEM Research Award 2022), who will talk about their journey in the world of science.
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- 08:30 Breakfast serving and networking start
- 09:00 Prof. Jaana Vapaavuori: Career joys and challenges – navigating the gendered structures of STEM fields
- 09:10 Dr. Sandra Kaabel: A traveler’s log from a journey in research
- 09:20 Networking
- 10:00 Breakfast ends
Assistant Professor Jaana Vapaavuori (Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, Aalto University) received her Ph.D. in Applied Physics in 2013. She leads the Multifunctional Materials Design Group, established in 2019. She has received multiple recognitions, such as Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (Canada), the Young Researcher of the Year 2020 award of Finnish Foundation of Technology Promotion, ERC Starting grant of European Research Council, and she is also leader of a Nordic Network beyond e-Textiles.
Dr. Sandra Kaabel (Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems) completed her Ph.D. in 2019, focusing on supramolecular and solid-state chemistry, supervised by Profs. Riina Aav (Tallinn University of Technology) and Kari Rissanen (University of Jyväskylä). She then moved to McGill University in Canada as a postdoctoral researcher to work on solid-state enzymatic degradation of plastics with Profs. Karine Auclair and Tomislav Friščić. She joined the group of Prof. Mauri Kostiainen at Aalto University as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Individual Fellow in 2021, to apply efficient and environmentally friendly solid-state techniques to the preparation of bio-based nanomaterials.
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