Atmospheric Sciences

Audine Laurian

Dr. Audine Laurian is the scientific manager of W2W. She obtained her PhD in Physical Oceanography in 2007 at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI, France) and worked at the KNMI (The Netherlands) and at the International Pacific Research Center (University of Hawaii, USA) as a postdoctoral fellow. She finds supporting colleagues, e.g., by proof-reading and translating scientific articles or by organizing meetings and outreach events more rewarding (and fun) than research. This is what led her to her current position.

What can we do to improve gender diversity in the workplace?

Audine Laurian April 7, 2021

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The number of women in science and academia drops with each career step in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM fields). This systematic under-representation of women towards the top of the academic career path is called the “leaky pipeline”. In Germany about 50% of the students in mathematics and natural sciences are women, but there are only 20% of fem ...[Read More]