Science and Society in Dialogue

Engineer Appointed to the Young Academy of the Leopoldina

Anyone who is a member here has not only written an excellent dissertation, but has also done outstanding work beyond that - and has done so at a young age: Junior Professor Doris Segets from the Center for Nanointegration (CENIDE) at University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) has been appointed to the Young Academy of the Leopoldina. Together with 49 other scientists and artists, she now has the opportunity for five years to help shape the exchange between society and research.

"My selection interview was on a Friday afternoon, and then it all happened one after the other," reports Segets. "The decision came that very evening and six days later the first meeting began - partly online, partly in presence in Berlin. Our topics ranged from mopheads to artificial intelligence and EU science policy. It was incredibly inspiring, but I was also quite exhausted afterwards".

Since December 2018, Segets has headed the working group "Process Technology for Electrochemical Functional Materials" at the NanoEnergyTechnologyCenter (NETZ) at UDE. Her professorship is part of the programme for the promotion of young scientists (WISNA) set up by the federal government, which aims to offer young scientists a transparent and plannable path to a lifetime professorship.

Her focus is on the further processing of functional nanoparticles for future technologies such as batteries or fuel cells: Among other things, her research group analyses the properties of these particles in order to understand how they behave in contact with certain liquids. If they can be distributed in a controlled manner, the result is a dispersion such as an ink or paste from which structured, functional layers can be printed over large areas for numerous applications.

From science to society

The Young Academy is a joint project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the renowned Leopoldina. It offers young scientists and artists a platform for exchange among themselves across disciplines, but also for dialogue between science and society. With personal and central research budgets, members can jointly organize scientific projects such as workshops, panel discussions or symposia.

Further information:
Junior Professor Doris Segets, Process Engineering for Electrochemical Functional Materials, Tel. 0203/37 9-8230, doris.segets@uni-due.de