International Advisory Board
Department of Mathematics ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Beatrice Acciaio is Professor of Mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology -ETH Zurich since 2020. Before joining ETH, she was associate professor at the London School of Economics. Her primary research interests are in stochastic analysis and optimal transports and applications in finance, insurance and economics. Beatrice was awarded her PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Perugia. Among several distinctions she was awarded the 2022 Louis Bachelier prize for her contributions to quantitative finance and risk management.
Hessah Al-Motairi holds a Ph.D in Financial Mathematics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She earned her Master degree from King’s College London in Financial Mathematics. She is an assistant professor in Mathematics department at Kuwait University. Her current research interests include optimal stochastic control, contract theory, renewable energy and Islamic finance.
UNESCO Chair Centre of Excellence for Equity in HE University of Newcastle, Australia.
Professor Penny Jane Burke is UNESCO Chair in Equity, Social Justice and Higher Education and Director of CEEHE at the University of Newcastle. She is committed to mobilising higher education as a vehicle for social justice and has published widely in the field. She received the Higher Education Academy’s National Teaching Award (2008) and was an expert member of the Australian government’s Equity in Higher Education Panel (2020-2021).
University of Thessaly, Greece
Anna Chronaki is Professor of Mathematics Education and Open Learning Technologies at the University of Thessaly in Greece and holds a chair at the University of Malmö in Sweden. Her research evolves around philosophical, anthropological and political issues of mathematics education and works with theories from cultural studies, discourse theory and philosophy of scientific knowledge. Her current research interests include discursive and non-discursive aspects of the pedagogy of mathematics including corporeality, body, identity, affect and language-use in processes of learning.
Albina Danilova is Associate Professor and the EDI Officer for the LSE Department of Mathematics. She was awarded her Ph.D. by the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. Before joining the LSE, she held a postdoctorate position at the Department of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University and Nomura Junior Research Fellowship at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
Department of Mathematics University of Oslo, Norway
Giulia Di Nunno is Professor of mathematics at the University of Oslo and holds an adjunct professor position at NHH - Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen since 2009. In addition to her research, Giulia is active in promoting and increasing the visibility of mathematics, globally and particularly in Africa. For her activities in this direction, she was awarded the Su Buchin Prize of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), in 2019.
Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Waltraud Ernst is a senior researcher at the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. She received her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria, with a thesis on feminist epistemology in 1996. She teaches Gender Studies to students of science and engineering, including mathematics. Her research focuses on Feminist STS. In 2018 she held a visiting professorship at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany.
University of Winchester, UK
Joyce Goodman is Professor of History of Education at the University of Winchester and research associate at the Centre de Recherche sur les Liens Sociaux (Cerlis.eu). Her research focuses on historical intersections between women’s education, colonialism, imperialism, and internationalism and she has published widely in this field. She is an honorary member of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education, of Network 17 of the European Educational Research Association, and of the British Federation of Women Graduates.
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Xin Guo Coleman is Fung Chair Professor in Financial Modeling at the Department of IEOR, UC Berkeley. Before Berkeley she was at the Cornell School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering and prior to that at IBM T. J. Watson research center at Yorktown Heights, where she was the winner of the Herman Goldstein Postdoc Fellowship in 1999. Her primary research interests are in the general area of stochastic processes and applications and financial engineering.
Center for the History of Women Philosophers and ScientistsPadeborn University, Germany
Ruth Hagengruber is Professor and head of philosophy at the University of Paderborn. She specialises in the history of women philosophers and is a specialist on Émilie Du Châtelet. She is the director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists and founder of the research area EcoTechGender. She invented the Libori Summer School and is the creator of the Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers.
Mathematical InstituteUniversity of KoblenzGermany
Eva Kaufholz-Soldat studied mathematics and history of science at the University of Hamburg and completed her doctorate at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz with a thesis on the reception of the Russian mathematician Sofja Kovalevskaya during the long 19th century. She is currently at the University of Koblenz, where she teaches mathematics and the history of mathematics and focuses her research on the intersection of cultural and mathematical history, with an emphasis on women in science.
Department of PsychologyUniversity of Pretoria South Africa
Sabrina Liccardo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pretoria. She completed her PhD in 2015 at the University of the Witwatersrand and has held Postdoctoral Fellowships at Rhodes University and the the University of Pretoria. Her research interests are in narrative theory and visual methodology and include amongst others intersectional psychosocial approaches to women’s underrepresentation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in South Africa.
Graduate School of EducationMelbourne UniversityAustralia
Julie McLeod is Professor of Curriculum, Equity and Social Change, Melbourne Graduate School of Education and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research Capability) at the University of Melbourne. She researches in the history and sociology of education and has a longstanding interest in genealogies of educational ideas, digital methods and archiving. Current projects include ‘Progressive Education and Race: A transnational Australian history, 1920s-50s’ and Making Futures a longitudinal study of youth identities.
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesUniversity of Wuppertal Germany
Nicola Oswald studied mathematics and computer science in Würzburg and received her PhD there in 2014 with a number theoretic thesis. Since 2015, she has been working in the History and Didactics of Mathematics group at the University of Wuppertal, where she is a permanent lecturer. Since 2016, she has additionally been working in the research area of gender and diversity in mathematics; for this she held a visiting professorship in Hannover, and at Bielefeld University.
School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Carrie Paechter is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University. She began her career as a mathematics teacher in London comprehensive schools, before moving to the university sector. Her research interests include gender, power and knowledge, hegemonic gender forms, and children’s embodied identities. She is currently researching the lived experience of young woman skateboarders.
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru, India
Mythily Ramaswamy is a NASI Senior Scientist at the ICTS. Among several visiting positions and awards, she was Sofia Kowalewsky visiting Professor at University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2001 , was elected to the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2007 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2008. She was awarded the Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Medal by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA ) in 2021.
Institute for Cultural Inquiry,Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Ann Rigney is Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University and an expert in the field of cultural memory studies. She has published widely in the field of modern memory cultures, with projects both on the nineteenth century and on contemporary developments. Her current project funded by an ERC advanced grant, is Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe (REACT)
School of Social and Political Science, the University of Edinburgh, UK
Liz Stanley is Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh and has published widely and influentially in the field. Her interests include historical sociology, feminist theory, narrative and auto/biographical methodologies, 'documents of life' and particularly diaries and letters. Her current research focuses on the ESRC funded project 'Whites Writing Whiteness - Domestic Figurations & Representations of Whiteness in South Africa 1770s - 1970s'
Université Gustave Eiffel, France
Carlone Trotot is Professor of Renaissance language and literature and Vice-présidente égalité at the Université Gustave Eiffel. Her research focuses on the interactions of literature and knowledge, poetic theories and practices around the Pléiade and women and humanism. She has coordinated various multidisciplinary projects devoted to the knowledge of women creators, including Visibilité et invisibilité des savoirs des femmes and Cité des Dames: Créatrices dans la cité.
Utrecht Universitythe Netherlands
Sophie van den Elzen completed her PhD dissertation in 2020 on the cultural memory of slavery and abolition in the nineteenth-century transnational movement for women's rights and is now a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC project Remembering Activism. Her research project develops the idea of a “protest lexicon” or “discursive repertoire” of social movements, and explores how activist memory is shaped and transmitted through language.