Dr. Meytal Eran Jona, the head of Diversity and Inclusion Office at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. She serves as the GENERA network chair since October 2019. During the last years she studied women and gender issues in physics and math intensive fields.
Dr. Deirdre Ní Eidhin, a Senior Technical Officer in the Department of Physics at the University of Limerick in Ireland. Prior to her current role, she had been a Senior Research Fellow in Food Science and worked in industry. She has been co-chair of the University of Limerick Physics Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee since its inception in 2016 and led their successful Athena SWAN Bronze (2017) and Silver (2021) awards as well as their successful Institute of Physics (IOP) Juno Practitioner and (2018) Champion (2022) awards. These were the first Athena Swan Silver and IOP Juno Champion awards in the Republic of Ireland.
Prof. Dr. Eija Tuominen, director of Detector Laboratory and adjunct professor in the instrumentation of particle physics in the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is also a member of the CERN CMS collaboration. She has doctoral degree in microelectronics and master’s degree in nuclear and energy technology from the Helsinki University of Technology. Her specialties are sensors, semiconductor devices and nanofabrication.
She is vice-chairperson of the Helsinki Association of Women Researchers (HELWOR). There, she has worked especially with the themes of sexual harassment and implicit bias. She also represents University of Helsinki, Faculty of Science in the Gender Equality Network in Physics in the European Research Area (GENERA).
Prof. Dr. Tomas Brage, a Professor at the Department of Physics at Lund University in Sweden. He obtained his PhD in Atomic Physics in 1988 and has since then had positions as a Research Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Vanderbilt University between 1989 and 1993, and Research Associate at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, before being recruited to Lund University in 1996, where he has also been the director of studies for over a decade. His main research interests are Laboratory Astrophysics and Computational Atomic Physics. For the last 20 years he has been strongly involved in work on Gender and Science and is active in several European networks.
