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Women in STEM & Transforming Violence

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Wednesday, April 5, 2023 18:30-19:30, Next to L’ESPACE, 1 Rue du 23-Août, 1205 Genève, Switzerland
Website: https://lespacedapres.ch/
Speaker(s):

Dr. Barbora Bruant Gulejova


Organizer(s):
  • Boris Fernandez

Science is present in everything Rotary does: we need statistics to enact the polio eradication program, we need risk estimation for global transportation and biological research on water sanitation. Scientists help us solve the biggest world problems. However, in all STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), women are still underrepresented. Part of those reasons are due to the gender stereotypes linking science with masculinity: in a study on school students in Switzerland, 25% of young men aspire to a science career while only 10% of young women do. 

Dr. Barbora Bruant Gulejova lectured us on her upcoming project: "Rotary and Science for Sustainable Future", see description below.

Manuel Leon gave us a lecture entitled "A Case of Transforming Violence", on benefitting of another chance at life through sports with a concrete project in Venezuela. 

The evening also saw the pinning ceremony of members who have been active along Rotaract for the past few months! Welcome Lynn Al Wazzan and Chloé Ciriello! Members Claire Colin and Shirley Bornet have also successfully been voted in, however their pinning ceremony will be organized on a later meeting.

Dr. Barbora Bruant Gulejova in front of Rotaractors at L'ESPACE.

Newly pinned member Lynn Al Wazzan with President Boris Fernandez

Newly pinned member Chloé Ciriello with President Boris Fernandez

Dr. Barbora Bruant Gulejova

About the lecture

Basic sciences and fundamental research are main drivers of innovations and technologies, needed for the economic progress and for the solutions of global societal challenges, like climate change, energy, health and other goals of UN Agenda 2030, including peace-building through science. The large socio-economic impact of the abstract science, especially physics and engineering, is often largely unknown by society and young students do not realise, how important it is to become new generation of STEM specialists.

About the lecturer

Barbora holds a MS degree in Plasma Physics and a MS degree in Management from Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. After having obtained her PhD in Thermonuclear Fusion from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, she worked at the International Atomic Energy Agency as a Scientific Editor and, later, for an NGO in Geneva specialized in sustainable energy. She started at CERN in 2014 as Head of Community Activities of HEPTech (High Energy Physics Technology Transfer Network) and later joined an Education, Communication and Outreach Group in CERN’s International Relations Sector.

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