Welcome to the INGQueens podcast: “Women engineers in transition - review, insight and outlook”. Here, the six current and former female professors of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering offer further personal insights into their career paths. You can look forward to exciting stories about special challenges, supporters and learnings that the female professors have experienced and encountered in the male-dominated field of engineering - anecdotes to make you smile included, of course!
With this podcast, we want to make the work and achievements of female scientists at our faculty more visible and at the same time show what significant successes they have achieved and thus paved the way for future female engineers. In addition, INGQueens aims to motivate women to pursue a career in precisely this professional field of engineering and to create new female role models, which have been rare to date.
Moderation: Lisa von Rössing | Chair of Computer Science in Civil Engineering
Coordination and editing: Dr.-Ing. Sandra Greassidis | Chair of Resource Efficient Construction, Project Office Construction and Environment (PBU)
Podcast Interview Background Music: Artist: Mykola Odnoroh (lkoliks) [License: https://pixabay.com/service/license-summary/]
In this episode, we talk about what connects the first and the youngest female professor in the faculty, what it's like to make a career as a young woman in male-dominated engineering - and at university too! - and why women can also have unconcious bias. Because the year 2025 is special - Ruhr-Universität Bochum is celebrating its 60th anniversary. In April 2000, 25 years ago, Stefanie Reese took up her post as the first female professor in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She was thus Germany's first woman to be appointed to a professorship in mechanics. Today she is Rector of the University of Siegen. We would also like to welcome Johanna Waimann, who was appointed to Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 2024. She has headed the Chair of Mechanics and Materials Theory at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering for a year now.
In this episode, we talk about why young women in particular should sometimes “just do it”, how different support can look in an academic career and why perfectionism can be both a strength and a weakness. Ms. Tamara Nestorović has been Professor of Mechanics of Adaptive Systems at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Ruhr University Bochum since 2008. Since 2015, she has also been Head of the Institute for Computational Engineering at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
We welcome you to another episode of our INGQueens podcast “Women engineers in transition - review, insight and outlook”, today with guests Professor Anette Hafner and Professor Martina Flörke.
In this episode, we talk about less straightforward career paths, where the courage to take new steps comes from, and what the problem with meetings after 4 pm is.
Ms. Anette Hafner has been Professor of Resource-Efficient Construction at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Ruhr University Bochum since 2014. Ms. Martina Flörke, who was appointed to the Ruhr University Bochum in 2019, heads the Chair of Engineering Hydrology and Water Management, also at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
In this episode, we talk about the compatibility of academic career paths and family, what form networks can take and why you shouldn't do everything on your own. Ms. Inka Mueller has been Professor of Technical Mechanics in the Department of Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering at Bochum University of Applied Sciences since 2019. From 2018 to 2019, Inka Mueller was Junior Professor of Structural Health Monitoring at the Ruhr University Bochum.
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