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Nadja Neumann

Soapbox Science

On Friday June 1st 2018 between 2 and 5 pm, female scientists from different corners of the world will step onto their soapboxes to tell you about the fascinating work they do. This will be the third soapbox science event in Berlin. Talks will be both in English and German and promise to inspire you and also challenge your notions of who you think a scientist is.

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Soapbox Science is a novel public outreach platform for promoting women scientists and the science they do. The events transform public areas into an arena for public learning and scientific debate. As part of a series of events taking place this summer across the UK, Germany and beyond, Soapbox Science Berlin will see eminent speakers from across a range of scientific fields sharing their expertise with the public. With talks covering technology, science, medicine and engineering, there’s something to intrigue every kind of enquiring mind. IGB is co-organizer of this event.


Speakers and their topics:

  • Dr. Foteini Vervelidou, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ): The magnetic song of rocks - from the bottom of the oceans to outer space.
  • Dr Gabrielle Thomas, Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ): Lasers in space - seeing the world from a new perspective.
  • Pascale Eede (@PascaleEede), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Abteilung Neuropathologie: Curing Alzheimer’s Disease - shooting for the stars.
  • Divya Seernani (@DSeernani), Universitätsklinik Freiburg, Klinik für Kinder und Jugendpsychatrie:I see it in your eyes - what eye-movements can tell us about brain and behaviour.
  • Dr. Dr. Ana-Maria Olteteanu (@amo_sci), Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Informatik (Human Centered Computing): Creative problem solving by humans and computers.
  • Dr. habil. Ilona M. Otto (@ilonamotto), Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK): Inducing social tipping to a fossil fuel free world.
  • Dr. Ana Alonso (@aalonsoserrano), Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut): Einstein’s theory of gravity and the discovery of gravitational waves.
  • Anna Jäger, Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB): What happens to pharmaceuticals when they end up in rivers? A study of micropollutants in the Berliner River Erpe.
  • Dr. Sandra Kerbler, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie: Plants, they’re smarter than we think!
  • Dr. Morelia Urlaub (@morelia_ur), GEOMAR - Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel: The old volcano and the sea - volcanic flank collapses and tsunamis.
  • Dr. Teresa Morganti (@teresamorganti), Max-Planck-Institut für Marine Mikrobiologie: Stranger things in the deep-sea - marine sponge gardens discovered in the unexplored Arctic Sea.
  • Dr Maja Grubisic (@Maja_Grubisic), Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei: Saving the night - what’s the harm of light pollution?


Soapbox Science, June 1st 2018 between 2 and 5 pm, Park am Gleisdreieck,  Zentraler Platz (Tanzfläche und Tribüne), 10963 Berlin.

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Soapbox Science 2017/Foto: IGB

Foto: Soapbox Science

Soapbox Science 2017/ Foto: IGB