Lunchbreak Talks

Karin Hain is Assistant Professor of Isotope Physics at the University of Vienna since 2022 and is currently head of the Isotope Physics research group.
Her interdisciplinary research focuses on determining the propagation pathways of long-lived radioisotopes. These radioisotopes can serve as markers for studying the effects of climate change.

At this lunchbreak event, Karin Hain will talk about her academic career and her research.

For registration please send an email with subject line "Lunchbreak 5.11.2024" to brigitte.bischof@univie.ac.at by 4.11.2024.

At this lunchbreak talk the two PostDocs Anna Francuz and Jana Dzíbelová will talk about their career and their reseach.

Anna Francuz has been a postdoc at the “Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information” group since September 2022. Every day she tries to find a balance between spending time with her little daughters and understanding the mysteries of quantum entanglement using tensor networks.

Jana Dzíbelová joined the research group “Physics of Nanostructured Materials” in March 2024 after the completion of her PhD in Olomouc, Czechia. In her current research, she uses transmission electron microscopy to study 2D materials with a focus on emerging 2D iron oxides.

For registration please send an email with subject line "Lunchbreak 10.12.2024" to brigitte.bischof@univie.ac.at .

Fariba Karimi leads the research team on Algorithmic Fairness at the Complexity Science Hub and is a professor of Social Data Science at Graz University of Technology. She has started her academic path with a PhD in physics and computational science from Umea University. Her research focuses on computational social science, the emergence of biases and inequality in networks and algorithms, and modelling human behaviour. In 2023, she received the Young Scientist Award from the German Physical Society for her research on inequality in complex networks.

One of her studies reveals the mechanisms behind the long-standing gender gap in physics. According to Karimi, the key lies in the tendency of established scientists to adopt – or not – young female researchers. Without changes to collaboration patterns and network inclusion, the gap will persist. (for more details see here and: Jun Sun and Fariba Karimi: Emergence of group size disparity in growing networks with adoption, in: Communications Physics)

Please register by sending an email with subject „Lunchbreak 16.1.2025“ to brigitte.bischof@univie.ac.at 

Lisa Appiano and Nina Krebs (Culture and Equalitiy Unit)