The pilot project “MEHRWERT durch mehr Perspektiven” (Added Value through Added Prospects) has reached a further milestone with the filling of three visiting professorship positions.

In the spring of 2018, Dr. Geeske Scholz will start at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She studied Applied Systems Science and now works at the Institute for Environmental Systems Research at the Universität Osnabrück. Her major research interests are diversity, social action and agent-based modelling.

At the School of Engineering Sciences, Dr. Waltraud Ernst from the Johannes Kepler University Linz will tackle, among other things, the gender-appropriate development of human-machine interfaces.

Dr. Martina Erlemann from the Freie Universität Berlin is designated to work at the School of Science. A sociologist and physicist, she will bring her research priority on gender studies in the natural and technical sciences to TU Dresden.

The pilot project “MEHRWERT durch mehr Perspektiven” integrates gender and diversity aspects in STEM research with the aim of highlighting new initiatives and methodological possibilities on an interdisciplinary level.

The kick-off event for the project will take place on 27 April 2018 in the Dülferstraße ballroom.