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International Women’s Day at UCL Engineering
08 March 2019, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Career stories and advice from UCL research and teaching staff.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- UCL staff | UCL students
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Garance Mourgaud
Location
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Room 508Roberts BuildingTorrington PlaceLondonWC1E 7JEUnited Kingdom
Come and join us on March 8th to celebrate International Women’s Day with some inspiring UCL Engineering women. Each speaker will talk about their unique career path and cover topics such as:
- How to manage work/life balance
- Experience with maternity leave
- Your options after a PhD
- Life as a researcher
- Working in industry
The talks will be followed by a conversation with the audience on a broad range of topics.
Speakers come from very diverse backgrounds and include:
- Professor Ann Blandford (Director of UCL Institute of Digital Health)
- Emanuela Tilley (Director of the Integrated Engineering Programme (IEP))
- Dr Kasia Balakier( Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Fellow, UCL EEE)
- Dr Karin Shmueli (Associate Professor, UCL Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering)
- Nafiseh Vahabi (PhD student, EEE)
This event would be particularly interesting to PhD researchers identifying as female or non-binary but everyone is welcome.
About the Speakers
Professor Ann Blandford
Director of UCL Institute of Digital Health
Ann is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Department of Computer Science at UCL, and a member of UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC, jointly supported by the Department of Computer Science and the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences). She was Director of UCLIC 2004-2011. In 2013, she was recognised as an academic role model in the School of Life and Medical Sciences. In 2015, she was appointed as the first Director of the UCL Institute of Digital Health, and was a Suffrage Science award holder (2016-2018). She is also a parent and a grandparent.
Emanuela Tilley
Director of the Integrated Engineering Programme (IEP)
Emanuela is the Director of the Integrated Engineering Programme (IEP). She is an aerodynamic engineer with a mechanical and civil structural background. Before being appointed as Director, she led the design and delivery of the Engineering Challenges module, with the aim of introducing new students to a new way of learning – through projects, research and engineering design. Emanuela came from industry after working as a professional consulting engineer for 7 years. Before coming to UCL she led multi-disciplinary engineering teams in the design and testing of the world’s most unique tall towers and city structures – like Abu Dhabi’s zero carbon Masdar City and London’s Leadenhall Tower (aka The Cheesegrater). Emanuela is a mother to a 3-year-old little girl and is expecting her second girl in May.
Dr Kasia Balakier
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Fellow, UCL EEE
Following her Master degree in Poland, Kasia worked as an opto-electronic engineer in Poland, South Korea, Spain and the Russian Federation. She then left industry to join UCL as a PhD student and Maria Sklodowska-Curie Fellow. She currently shares her time between UCL - where she works as a UKRI Research Fellow focussing on photonic systems and devices for space applications, Airbus Defence and Space - where she is involved in developing the next-generation satellites, and home - running after her four-year-old son who is a recent graduate from UCL Nursery.
Dr Karin Shmueli
Associate Professor, UCL Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Dr Karin Shmueli is an Associate Professor leading the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Group in the UCL Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. Karin’s research focuses on MRI Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) techniques and applications. Before joining UCL, Karin pioneered MRI QSM techniques as a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the USA National Institutes of Health. She has recently chaired the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Electromagnetic Tissue Properties (SWI) Study Group. She has successfully trained three PhD students and will soon be expanding her group thanks to a European Research Council Consolidator Grant and a Cancer Research UK Multidisciplinary Award.
Nafiseh Vahabi
PhD student, UCL EEE
Nafiseh graduated from university of Southampton with Engineering degree in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence (MEng). She received her masters from Imperial college in Medical Robotics and Image Guided Intervention (Mres). Nafiseh joined UCL to perform her PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department where her research focuses on developing machine learning and image processing algorithms to solve the real world problems. Nafiseh is a winner of a number of awards such as Engineering Exchange award, public engagement award and was very recently awarded EPSRC Doctoral Fellowship Prize which gives her a great opportunity to carry on her independent research after finishing her PhD. Nafiseh is an active member of professional bodies, MIEEE and MIET.