A career talk with Prof. Dr. Beate Koksch took place on 21 May. She works at Freie Universität Berlin at the Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the Organic Chemistry working group. She is Professor for Organic and Natural Product Chemistry. She shared her experiences in the natural sciences, talked about her career and path into business and gave our doctoral researchers, postdocs and interested students insights into her career.

After this exciting input, she gave a lecture on “Fluorine in peptide, protein and cell engineering” at our BEAM Colloquium.

Thank you very much for coming and for your interesting presentations.

Our BEAM member and, as of today, former doctoral researcher Dr. Christian Anders successfully defended his dissertation on “On the way to columnar liquid quasi crystals – X-shaped bolapolyphiles with branched side chains” yesterday and passed with summa cum laude.

Congratulations on your doctorate and all the best for your future career and new tasks!

Gesine Born was a guest at BEAM at the beginning of the week. Over the last few months, she has been making “missed images”, AI images of female scientists whose work has not been appreciated or not sufficiently appreciated during their lifetime. Gesine Born gives these women the attention they deserve and presents them as their male colleagues have always been shown.
You can take a look at them here: https://beam.uni-halle.de/women-in-natural-sciences/

She also organized a two-day photography workshop with some of BEAM’s female doctoral researchers and employees under the motto “women in science”, in which she showed them how to present themselves strongly and confidently in front of the camera.

We are very happy that she visited us and was able to see the impact her great work has on us.