Speaker
Prof.
Martina Erlemann
(Freie Universität Berlin)
Description
In recent decades there has been a growing awareness that a scientist's gender can have an impact on a career in physics, even though it should have no influence. This applies also for ethnicity or national background, social background, and other social characteristics which can have a detrimental impact on a career in science. The talk will present research on gender and diversity in physics, with a particular focus on studies of workplace cultures in physics and their impact on young scientists' sense of belonging to the physics community. It will be argued that improving the workplace cultures can be a game changer in combating discrimination and diversifying the physics community, which would also benefit physics research.
