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Published 10 November 2025 by Ulrike Böhm

Women in Research 2025: Overview

Thanks to Sumana Kundu and all other participants of “Women in Research 2025”. Photo/Credit: in courtesy of Sumana Kundu

Ulrike Böhm is deeply committed to science communication and open science, and she strongly champions women in research. On her blog, she features portraits of female scientists — many of whom have taken part in the Lindau Meetings.
In 2025 she published interviews with women invited to the
74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Chemistry) and to the 8th Lindau Nobel Meeting in Economic Sciences.

All posts of “Women in Research 2025”

Ulrike Böhm

Ulrike Boehm is a physicist and science enthusiast. She works as an optical scientist at ZEISS in Oberkochen, Germany. Previously, she did her Ph.D. studies at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen in the Department of NanoBiophotonics of Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell, followed by research stays in the US at the National Institutes of Health and HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus, developing tools for biomedical research. She is generally passionate about designing and building (optical) instruments to image, probe, and manipulate (biological) structures. Furthermore, she is passionate about science communication and open science and is a huge advocate for women in science.