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24.11.2011 Young female Max Planck researcher wins UNESCO-L’Oréal sponsorship award
Judith Klatt, a PhD student at the Max Planck Insitute for Marine Microbiology, was awarded the prize of the national UNESCO-L’Oréal sponsorship program „For Women in Science“ (fwis), worth 20,000€ in funding. The sponsorship award is an annually assigned award in the field of experimental natural sciences assigned to three excellent graduate students with children. The UNESCO-L’Oréal sponsorship program cooperates with the Christiane-Nüsslein-Volhard foundation that awards support grants to young, highly qualified scientists with children. As one of three of the best Christiane-Nüsslein-Volhard awardees Judith Klatt now also qualified for the UNESCO-L’Oréal sponsorship award. The awards ceremony took place on November 10, 2011 in Berlin.
Dr. Roland Bernecker (general secretary of the German UNESCO-Commission), Christina Hadulla-Kuhlmann (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) and Rolf Sigmund (member of the L’Oréal executive board) congratulate the three awardees Judith Klatt, Katja Herzog and Nicole Fröhlich. Courtesy of L’Oréal.
Funding is to support mothers at scientific expeditions
The fwis sponsorship award is three pronged: Half of the funding will provide personal assistance to the awardee. In the framework of the Christiane-Nüsslein-Volhard award the scientist will gain support in the organiszation of the everyday life with kids. Additionally, the fwis-awardees obtain the opportunity to participate in a personal carreer development program that includes coaching, mentoring and carreer workshops. The other half of the sponsorship award goes to the research institution of the awardee and is to support a project in terms of the sponsorship program. At the request of Judith Klatt this part of the prize money at the MPI in Bremen is to be used for the support of female scientists with children during business trips and activities outside of regular childcare hours. „The organisation of excursions to conferences and expeditions is not easy for women with children. Financial support can be a great help“, says Judith Klatt. She speakes from her own experience, because for her PhD project she has to participate in measuring campaigns in the field every once in a while.
For one of her projects in the Microsensor working group Judith Klatt investigates the photosynthesis of microorganisms. For this purpose she travels to the limestone cave system of Frasassi in central Italy. „What is special about these caves is that oxygen free, sulfuric water discharges. On its way it is enriched with oxygen and the sulfur disappears. This environment is well suited to study the gradual change and adaptation of the photosynthetic microbial community“.
MPI aims for sustainability of the support
The fwis project at the MPI in Bremen intends to allow female scientists with children in preschool age to take their kids and an additional person for childcare along on business trips. Their travel and lodging costs will be supported by the stipend. „Since the sponsorship money is a one-time grant we would like the project to be considered it as an inititative“, explains Judith Klatt. „Our aim is to establish a permanent budget at the MPI in Bremen for the support of business trips of female scientists with small children“. This goal is dealt with at high level now: The directors and the head of the administration of the MPI in Bremen aim to establish a sustainable structure for the childcare during trips of Max Planck researchers.
The fwis sponsorship award is three pronged: Half of the funding will provide personal assistance to the awardee. In the framework of the Christiane-Nüsslein-Volhard award the scientist will gain support in the organiszation of the everyday life with kids. Additionally, the fwis-awardees obtain the opportunity to participate in a personal carreer development program that includes coaching, mentoring and carreer workshops. The other half of the sponsorship award goes to the research institution of the awardee and is to support a project in terms of the sponsorship program. At the request of Judith Klatt this part of the prize money at the MPI in Bremen is to be used for the support of female scientists with children during business trips and activities outside of regular childcare hours. „The organisation of excursions to conferences and expeditions is not easy for women with children. Financial support can be a great help“, says Judith Klatt. She speakes from her own experience, because for her PhD project she has to participate in measuring campaigns in the field every once in a while.
For one of her projects in the Microsensor working group Judith Klatt investigates the photosynthesis of microorganisms. For this purpose she travels to the limestone cave system of Frasassi in central Italy. „What is special about these caves is that oxygen free, sulfuric water discharges. On its way it is enriched with oxygen and the sulfur disappears. This environment is well suited to study the gradual change and adaptation of the photosynthetic microbial community“.
MPI aims for sustainability of the support
The fwis project at the MPI in Bremen intends to allow female scientists with children in preschool age to take their kids and an additional person for childcare along on business trips. Their travel and lodging costs will be supported by the stipend. „Since the sponsorship money is a one-time grant we would like the project to be considered it as an inititative“, explains Judith Klatt. „Our aim is to establish a permanent budget at the MPI in Bremen for the support of business trips of female scientists with small children“. This goal is dealt with at high level now: The directors and the head of the administration of the MPI in Bremen aim to establish a sustainable structure for the childcare during trips of Max Planck researchers.