For talented, creative, and passionate young female researchers working in the field of active and interactive materials

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The WIMA is a young scientist award launched in 2021 initiated by DWI's working group "Equal Chances and Diversity", specifically targeting female scientists from the research field of active and interactive materials.

The aim is to specifically support women in their early academic careers and provide them with a platform to increase their visibility.

We are honored to host our 4th WIMA edition in Aachen this year.

The final of the award took place on-site in Aachen on September 26, 2024.

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This is made possible by the generous financial support of the ALTANA Group, a global leader in specialty chemicals for innovative technologies, the Association of Friends of DWI and the Leibniz Research Alliance Leibniz Health Technologies.

In the end, three winners will be chosen and honoured with prize money of 15,000 EUR in total: 1st place 10,000 EUR prize money and 2,500 EUR for each of the 2 runner-ups.

A summary of the WIMA 2024 Symposium can be found here.

The finalists of 2024:

We are honored to welcome the following talented, creative and passionate young women scientists to the finals in Aachen:

  • Andreia Trinidade Pereira, University of Porto, Portugal
  • Céline Calvino, University of Freiburg, Germany (Laureate)
  • Erica Del Grosso, University of Rome, Italy
  • Guilia Lavarda, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands (Laureate)
  • Maria Villiou, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
  • Viktorija Glembockyte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany (Winner)

You can download the program here.

 

The jury will be chaired by: