Award of the STEM Women Scholarships 2022

The MINT Women's Scholarship is one of many new measures to promote gender equality that have been made possible as a result of the successful application to the BMBF's Professorinnen-Programm III (Female Professors Program III) and funded by this program. The scholarship is aimed at young women who are beginning their studies in the MINT subjects at BTU, in which female students are still underrepresented nationwide. A total of 6 scholarships amounting to €250 per month were awarded for the first two semesters of study in a MINT subject. The scholarships are intended to make it easier for students to start their studies and provide an additional incentive to choose a scientific or technical course of study. The funding also includes support during their studies from the BTU's STEM ambassadors. The scholarship recipients were able to convince the university of their high level of motivation for their course of study, their outstanding achievements and their personalities. Each of them will help shape the future of research at the BTU in her own individual way and contribute to university life at the BTU.

The 2022 MINT Women Scholarships were awarded to:

Lotta Marie Müller, Physics major, Faculty 1 Ever since the final trip of her physics performance course to the particle accelerator CERN, Lotta Marie Müller has been aware that there are still many unanswered questions in physics and that young female scientists are needed to solve them. This challenged her.

Lara Voigt, Biotechnology course, Faculty 2 Lara Voigt was so enthusiastic about her trial study in the Biotechnology course in Senftenberg that she now wants to take a scientific look at the research topic "Joint preservation instead of joint replacement" herself.

Ronja Tittel, Biotechnology course, Faculty 2 During a year abroad in England, Ronja Tittel realized that mathematics and biology will help humanity develop technologically the most. She would like to play an active role in this further development.

Nele Hoffmann, Materials Chemistry major, Faculty 2 Besides school, Nele Hoffmann has already satisfied her interest in the natural sciences at the Chemistry College of the TU Freiberg and in the Physics Correspondence Circle of the TU Chemnitz. Now she wants to help shape the future with her studies in materials chemistry at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and find new, environmentally friendly ways for industry.

Maike Arntz, course of studies Land Use and Water Management, Faculty 2 A voluntary year in Spain leads Maike Arntz to the decision to turn to the topic of regenerative agriculture with her studies of Land Use and Water Management, in order to exert concrete influence on the use of land and water and to be able to react to the coming climate changes.

Marlene Felker, Medical Technology Studies, Faculty 3 During her internship at the Spreewald Clinic in Lübbenau, Marlene Felker realizes that in medicine it is not only human skill that counts, but also technical precision. With her studies in medical technology, she wants to contribute to the development of sophisticated technical environments for medical research and application.