Julia is a full professor of financial and acturial mathematics at the Technical University of Vienna.

She studied mathematics at the University of Duisburg-Essen and obtained her PhD from the University of Cologne. Since 2010 she has been associated with the TU Wien.

As part of her Elise-Richter project she received her Habilitation for "Applied Mathematics" in 2019. Since 2021 she was an “honorary fellow" at the University of Liverpool.

She is looking forward discussing with you:

• Importance of overseas experience

• How was your interview experience?

• Career and life balance 

Ecaterina is a full professor of stochastics at the University of Innsbruck.

She obtained the Habilitation in Mathematics at TU Graz in 2020, at the same university where she received her PhD in 2010.

Before her tenure-track position in Innsbruck, she was an assistant professor (non tenure-track) at TU Graz and a visiting assistant professor at Cornell University, USA. 

She just received an FWF Research Grant on “Sandpiles and walks”.

Ecaterina is looking forward discussing with you:

• Career and life balance

• How was your interview experience?

• How much time and effort should I invest into student guidance (apart from teaching duty, e.g. advising a Bachelor's thesis, Master's thesis, etc)?

Benjamin is currently a lecturer at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom.

He obtained his Habilitation in Mathematics at TU Vienna in 2025. 

Benjamin studied Mathematics at JKU Linz, where he earned his PhD with distinction in 2017. As part of an FWF Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship he conducted research at Lund University (Sweden), at Rice University in Houston (USA) and JKU Linz. 

From 2021 to 2024, he worked at TU Vienna within his FWF stand-alone project.

Benjamin is looking forward to discussing with you:

• How to build up a network and become independent

• Importance of grants: when to apply for the first grant and which one?

• Career and life balance 

Verena is a full professor of mathematical analysis at the University of Salzburg since 2014.

She received her PhD from the Unversity of Erlangen, followed by some research stays at University of Parma in Italy and University of Bonn. She conducted the Habilitation again in Erlangen, for which she won the Emmy-Noether-Preis. 

Verena organised several conferences and successfully received different FWF stand alone grants. Since 2020 she is in the scientific board of the FWF but she is also a member of A2WiM.

She is looking forward to discussing with you:

• First grant opportunities – when to apply for your first funded project?

• Research strategy – should you go deep or broad?

• Thesis supervision – when to start mentoring students?

Eranda is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Graz University of Technology since 2007.

She did her PhD and Habilitation also at the University of Technology in Graz. From 2002-2007 she was the head of the quant team working on the fin4cast project at Siemens Austria AG. 

Besides from her membership at A2WiM and her dedicated work, e.g., co-organising the 6th Austrian Day of Women in Mathematics at Graz, she is also part of the doc.funds project "Discrete Mathematics in Teams", which was funded by FWF in 2024.

She is looking forward to discussing with you:

• How much time to dedicate to non-research activities?

• Habilitation – important or not?

• How interdisciplinary should I be?

Rüdiger Frey is a full professor of mathematics and finance at WU Vienna since 2011.

After the PhD at the University in Bonn, he was several years at ETH Zurich and University of Zurich, where he also finalised his Habilitation. Right afterwards, he started a full professorship at the University of Leipzig.

He co-wrote two books and contributed to a lot more, won several third-party funds and he is a very active referee and associate editor.

Rüdiger is looking forward to discussing with you:

• Habilitation – important or not?

• International experience – if and how?

• How much time to dedicate to non-research activities, e.g. self governance?

• Relevance of teaching / supervision experience

• Interdisciplinarity and application orientation

Sophia is a formal verification researcher at the Argot Collective, where she writes a (mathematical) proof that the software behaves as it should. 

In detail she is working at the intersection of logic, blockchain security, and automated reasoning.

She did her Math degrees (Bachelor, Master and PhD) at the Technical University of Vienna, where she received several prizes as the Dr Maria Schaumayer Prize or the Christiana Hörbiger Prize. Sophia was also highlighted as a TU Wien 30 Under 30 Listmaker. 

Sophia is looking forward to discussing with you:

• Why to choose a job in industry?

• What to expect from a job in industry and how to find it?

• Differences academia and industry?

Susanne is (still) an associate professor at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, but will be a full professor for artificial intelligence at the University Salzburg by October 2026.

She obtained her PhD sub auspiciis from JKU in 2004 and finished her habilitation in Mathematics also at JKU in 2009.

Susanne has been visiting researcher to several European universities supported by different grant schemes.  As interim head of her institute from 2014 to 2020 she collaborated with her team on various interdisciplinary projects, e.g., with the Linz Center of Mechatronics and the Software Competence Center Hagenberg. Susanne is also a member of A2WiM.

She is looking forward discussing with you:

• How to get the best out of conferences?

• How to build up a network and become independent?

• How interdisciplinary should I be?