“How is it actually as a woman in engineering sciences?”
As part of the “Long Night of Sciences” held on 25 October 2025 throughout Nuremberg, Fürth, and Erlangen Eva Maria Richter, Department of Mechanical Engineering, organized a panel discussion pivoting around the question “How is it actually as a woman in engineering sciences?”
To this end, Eva brought together female students, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers as well as professors to talk about their various experiences at the different levels of their careers (Marlene Ziegler, Julia Wimmer, Patricia Schmul, Katharina Braun, Dr. Sabine Thürauf, Dr.-Ing. Silvia Budday, Elisa Neuß, Viktoria Cichocka). Very impressively, our youngest panel member (7 years old) reported on the grants she acquired for two science projects, one meant for kids at the kindergarden age and the other for a project in the context of the “children’s university” in the field of electrical engineering.
After all, this lively discussion gave important insights into how women are holding their own in a scientific discipline that is still dominated by men while simultaneously motivating and inspiring girls from an early age to become engineers.
