Global Forum Working Group 1: Achieving gender balance in nuclear technology and academic workforces
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Photo: MIT

Co-Chairs: Eun-Hee Kim (left), Seoul National University (SNU), Korea, and Aditi Verma (right), University of Michigan, United States

SNU-EUN HEE KIM (photo) 20238. Aditi Verma   

While 53% of bachelor’s graduates are female globally, their proportion as doctoral students falls to 43% and among science and engineering researchers to 28%. With this in mind, the Council of Advisors is refining activities to address the augmentation of the number of women in the nuclear field.

As part of this effort, Working Group 1 members have initiated the Rising Stars Programme, which puts the weight of the NEA and the Global Forum on Nuclear Education’s academic institutions behind efforts to mentor and encourage female leaders in the nuclear field. The Rising Stars does this by connecting participants with resources, people and support that helps to welcome and integrate them into the global nuclear community.

Working Group Members

Country

Institution

Aditi Verma - Co-Chair

UNITED STATES

University of Michigan

Eun-Hee Kim - Co-Chair

KOREA

Seoul National University 

Juana Gervasoni

ARGENTINA

Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica

Isabelle Rossini

FRANCE

University of Strasbourg

Emanuela Colombo

ITALY

Politecnico di Milano

Mikio Sakai

JAPAN

University of Tokyo

Vera Verkhoturova

RUSSIA

Tomsk Polytechnic University

Stephanie Diem

UNITED STATES

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Yassin Hassan

UNITED STATES

Texas A&M

Lisa Marshall

UNITED STATES

North Carolina State University 

Seungjin Kim

UNITED STATES

Purdue University

Olivia Blackmon

UNITED STATES

Oak Ridge Association of Universities

Margot Hurlbert

CANADA

University of Regina

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