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Dean's blog: It is important that the Lise Meitner professors work in LTH’s environments

Ultimately, it is about creating an open and creative environment that attracts students and researchers, and where everyone can realise their potential. I have taken part in events which highlight the fact that currently more women than men leave academia after earning a PhD – and that it is thus harder for LTH to recruit women as lecturers and professors – writes LTH’s Dean Annika Olsson concerning a professorship for gender equality, diversity and research brilliance.

– Published 30 November 2021

Lise Meitner. Portrait photo.
A professorship that is part of LTH’s work for gender equality and diversity, and which is to ensure brilliance within academia, is named after Lise Meitner, who was not given a shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Otto Hahn in 1944.

Last week I had the pleasure of listening to three of LTH’s Lise Meitner professors at a seminar where they talked about their research and inspired me and other researchers, students and staff from LTH.

The day after the seminar I also had the pleasure of joining four of them on a panel to talk about our careers in academia at the Lise Meitner pub session arranged by and for LTH’s students.

Both these events highlighted in many ways how important role models are, but also how important diversity is at our faculty, where different perspectives can interact and be made visible.

The full blog post "It is important that the Lise Meitner professors work in LTH’s environments" by Annika Olsson

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