Manuela Brunner at work: The scientist is committed to tackling imbalances in the professional sphere in favour of minorities. picture: Jochen Bettzieche, SLF
Manuela Brunner at work: The scientist is committed to tackling imbalances in the professional sphere in favour of minorities. picture: Jochen Bettzieche, SLF 11 February is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science: In this interview, SLF and ETH assistant professor Manuela Brunner talks about positive and negative experiences in the traditionally male world of science, how she deals with them, and how she is actively trying to improve the situation for minorities. Manuela, as a woman, do you find it difficult to assert yourself in a male-dominated scientific environment? For a long time I wasn't that aware of feeling 'I'm in the minority and I have to assert myself'. I studied geography, you see, where the gender balance is relatively even. I also did my PhD thesis in a group with a large number of female scientists. I only really became aware of inequality when I started attending conferences and realised, wow, it's not the same in other research groups as it is in ours. At other universities there are groups made up entirely of men.
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