8 March 2025 – Today, on International Women’s Day, Gerlind Wallon receives a Suffrage Science Award for Engineering and Physical Sciences 2025. The award celebrates outstanding contributions of female scientists, and encourages others to enter senior leadership roles in science and research. The Engineering and Physical Sciences branch is the second branch of the scheme, founded in 2013. Every awards season it recognizes 12 awardees from physics, chemistry and related fields.
Gerlind Wallon, who has a PhD in biochemistry from Brandeis University, US, is Head of the EMBO Young Investigator Network and Global Activities. In these roles, she has created a supportive community of young life scientists in Europe and beyond, and promoted gender equality in science by organizing conferences and publishing articles on the topic. Her award consists of an heirloom jewellery item that was presented to her during a ceremony at the University of Oxford, in a building named after the Nobel Laureate Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, on 7 March 2025.
