Scholarship holders The Equal Opportunity Office supports female junior researchers at BTU through travel grants and scholarships. Read the testimonials of the female scholarship holders here.
Report on participation in the 9th Responsible Management Education Research Conference in Innsbruck The theme of the conference was to promote social impact through entrepreneurship and innovation through responsible management education for the changemakers of tomorrow. On Tuesday, the day started with workshops on Climate Change and Future Litarcy - already during registration, participants could choose a workshop. In the afternoon, meetings took place in existing working groups. The welcome event in the evening (Fig. 1) focused primarily on PRME. PRME (pronounced Prime) aims to embed the SDGs in the teaching of management courses - according to a presentation, 1/3 of all graduates are business alumni, so there is great potential in promoting skills such as Future Litarcy among management students. Future Litarcy i s the "skill that enables people to better understand the role of the future in what they see and do. Having future literacy empowers the imagination and improves our ability to prepare for, recover from, and invent change" (UNESCO). The next two days each started with two keynotes in the morning followed by a panel discussion. On Wednesday morning and afternoon and Thursday morning, there was also a session with presentations in which the submitted papers were presented. I presented our submitted paper on Thursday morning - afterwards there was a positive exchange about it.
Report on participation in the 13th conference on new direstions in management accounting.
The annual conference on new research directions in management accounting was held in Lisbon, Portugal, December 14-16, 2022. The conference was attended by many renowned researchers (Prof. Van der Steen, Prof. Schäffer, Prof. Grabner, Prof. Möller and others) as well as young PhD students and post-docs. I was admitted to the conference with my paper on "Management Accounting Change with Machine Learning: A literature review on application experience".
The conference program included plenary sessions, presentation and discussion of research papers in the sessions, and a reception and dinner that served as networking events. Two thematically similar articles were presented and discussed in each session. The authors of the articles presented in a session also acted as discussants for each other. Thus, each session was structured as follows: The first author presented his/her findings for 25 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of comments and remarks by the discussant, and a 10-minute discussion with the other audience members of that session. The same was repeated for the second paper. Each paper was allotted 45 minutes, so each session lasted an hour and a half.
I was very lucky to be invited to this conference because I was able to meet many PhD students and professors as well as female professors. I also received quite a lot of feedback on my work, including constructive criticism, which will allow me to continue to advance my research. I am very satisfied with my participation in this conference and I will definitely try to participate again in the future.
Jieqiong Gan, PhD student at the Chair of Power Economics, Faculty 3.
She studied power engineering (M. Sc. Power Engineering) and is now a PhD student, direction Business Administration and Engineering, at the Chair of Energy Economics. In her PhD project she is working on the analysis and modeling of future energy systems with sector coupling and RES integration. She is currently working on the project "Better price forecasts in the energy industry by combining fundamental and stochastic models".
She reported at the event series "Science is (also) female!" about her participation at the first Graduate Forum of CSAA and the 7th NUAAA International Academic Conference for Graduates in Nanjing/China.
Research topic: Analysis and modeling of future energy systems
Julia Braun, (M.Sc.) Academic Assistant at the Chair of ABWL, in particular Planning, Innovation and Start-up; Faculty 5 Publication of a paper together with Stephanie Künnemann, Beatrice Rich as well as Prof. Magdalena Mißler- Behr and Prof. Ralf Woll, with the title "Changing Customer Requirements in the Automotive Industry - Analysis of Expert Interviews". At the event "Wissenschaft ist (auch) weiblich" (Science is (also) female), she reports on the trip to a conference in Aachen, the networking activities this enabled and what added value she sees from this for her academic future. Research topic: customer requirements in the automotive industry, smart product development, digitalization
I come from Siberia, from a country where, on the one hand, small settlements are still heated with wood and coal and often have no electricity, water and sewage connections. On the other hand, as in the world, the urbanization of the population is growing and home building on the outskirts of the city is developing rapidly. In today's world, the topic of climate change and environmental protection is being pushed, but the term sustainability includes two dimensions besides ecology: Economy (economic efficiency) and sociology (people and their needs). The rating systems for buildings should serve to ensure that it is built in a sustainable way (i.e. ecologically, economically efficient and people-oriented). In addition, a building should be technically durable, capable of reconstruction and deconstruction, so that resources are used as efficiently as possible and returned to circulation. Furthermore, the energy and heat supply of a building during its use is a major issue. Today, there are only 4 single-family houses in Russia (pilot projects) that have been evaluated from a sustainability point of view. That means, something has to be done, so that there is more and more sustainable building. That would be my goal. However, the results of the work should serve for both countries (for Russia and for Germany), since here also only 0.005% of the one-/two-family houses were certified.
Research topic: Sustainable building, sustainability rating systems for buildings; real estate economics
Details of the research trip (goal, period, purpose) The advanced training on "BIM - Finding and implementing your own digitalization strategy" at the University of Wuppertal (research pioneer for this topic) was particularly important for me because the BIM concept is to be scientifically implemented in my dissertation in the sustainability rating system for single-family houses as an increase in the efficiency of all planning and execution processes of buildings, but also of the rating process itself. Participation in the seminar in March 2019 has enabled me to receive funding from Equality (travel allowances for young female scientists), for which I am very grateful.
Dr.in Dragana Nikodinoska, post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Energy Economics, research area: prediction of generated photovoltaics for improved system integration of renewable energies. In the event series "Science is (also) female - BTU female researchers on the road in the world", she reported on her work as a post-doctoral researcher at the BTU, the big and small challenges, and what contribution her trip to Ljubljana/Slovenia in August 2019 made.
Luisa Näke is a bachelor's student at the Chair of Construction Mechanics She is dedicated to climate research and her bachelor's thesis deals with changes in the altitude profile of the ice caps Her research topic is "Climate research - changes in the altitude profile of the ice caps in Greenland".In July 2019, she set off for Greenland for a three-week research trip. The findings from the work will be used for the expedition in summer 2020. It is a joint project between BTU, CTU in Prague, TU Dresden as well as Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin. LINK
Layla Zibar is a PhD student at the Department of Urban Planning and Design. She is researching on "Refugee Camps in Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI)" Her research focuses on the socio-spatial aspects of refugee camps. Since 2017, she has been an adjunct professor in the Master's course in Urban Design - Revitalization of Historic Neighborhoods. In 2016, Layla received her MA in Architectural Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt and her BA in the same field from Aleppo University, Syria in 2010. LINK
Alexandra Lotz is a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Historic Preservation. Her research area includes European stud culture, specifically the Main and County Stud Marbach, in which she conducts research on building history and cultural landscape. Moderating a panel at the conference "Why Equine History Matters" at the University of Cal Poly Ponoma, USA brought her great popularity and provided excellent networking opportunities. In the course of the conference, Ms. Lotz was appointed as the contact person for Central Europe. Her tip for young female scientists: "If you believe in your topic: do it! " www.horses-and-heritage.net
Dr.in Anika Noack, research associate in the project "Innovation Hub 13" as well as at the Chair of Economic and Labor Sociology has a wide range of interests. Her research focuses on social innovation, smart regions and research scouts as intermediaries in knowledge and technology transfer. At the event series "Science is (also) female - BTU female researchers on the road in the world", she reported on her participation in a conference in Dublin/Ireland, her experiences there and the motivation for her research focus.
Maria Loebjinski, doctoral student in civil engineering at the Chair of Steel and Timber Construction, research topic: Evaluation of the load-bearing and stability of timber structures in existing buildings - A contribution to the conservation of existing buildings. At the event "Wissenschaft ist (auch) weiblich - BTU-Forscherinnen unterwegs in der Welt"(Science is (also) female - female researchers on their way in the world), she reported about her trip to Guimaraes/Portugal as well as the Viadrina Postdoc-Mentoring, what drives her and what she could or would like to achieve with her stay. LINK