Dr. Natalie Loick Wilde is head of the research group Aquatic Food Webs at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde in Rostock (tenure-track). Her group uses amino acid nitrogen stable isotope approaches to elucidate how food webs regulate the matter turnover in aquatic systems. What inspire you to pursue a career in marine […]

Dr. Laura Uusitalo works as a Head of Unit and Senior Research Scientist at the Finnish Environment Institute. She’s interested in marine food webs and modern intelligent data analysis methods. Dr. Laura Uusitalo. Photo: Jari Juslin What did inspire you to pursue a career in marine sciences/technologies? When I was a teenager, I wanted, for […]

Meet Cathi Hebold, the woman who works as an electronic engineer on the German research vessel METEOR. What inspired you to pursue a career in marine sciences/technologies? When working on my bachelor’s thesis, I found out that electronics engineers also worked on German research vessels. As my father and husband are also sailors, I had […]

Prof. Zita Rasuole Gasiunaite is the head and lead scientist of the laboratory of Marine Ecosystems of Open Access Centre for Marine Research and a professor at the Department of Natural Sciences of Klaipeda University in Lithuania. At the same time she is a professional wildlife photographer and amateur rider.   What inspired you to […]

Dr. Iris Werner is the central equal opportunities commissioner of Kiel University and head of the central Office for Gender Equality, Diversity and Family. Being a marine biologist by education, she worked more than 20 years in marine and polar ecological research before changing to science management in 2008.  What are the main things you […]

Prof. Joanna J. Waniek is a professor for bio-physical interactions in marine ecosystems at the University of Rostock and at the Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde (IOW), Germany where she leads her own working group. She is a sea going scientist, with 25 years of work experience. Since 2013 she is the equal […]

Dr. Johanna Stadmark is a researcher at the Department of Geology at the Lund University (LU) and works mainly in projects related to eutrophication in the Baltic Sea. She is in the steering group of WINGS (Women in Great Sciences) since 2009 and an active member of the equality boards at the Faculty of Science […]

Baltic Gender is a EU-funded project that works on reducing gender inequalities in Marine Science and Technology. We have created this blog series with the aim of highlighting the successful and diverse career paths of some women, who are at different stages of their academic career. This week, a post will be published each day […]