1. Dewis Lunch meeting

2. Who am I? Liedewij Laan, born in 1980 in Hengelo the Netherlands Studied Applied Physics at Twente University in Enschede 1999-2004 Master project at FOM Institute AMOLF (with Marileen Dogterom) in Amsterdam 2004-2005 PhD project in biophysics also at FOM Institute AMOLF (with Marileen Dogterom) in Amsterdam 2005-2009 Post-doc at Harvard University in Cell Biology and Genetics, with Andrew Murray in Cambridge MA 2009-2014 Assistant professor (tenure track), Bionanoscience at the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience, Applied Sciences 2014-now Laanlab.tudelft.nl 2004

3. Harvard University Much more awareness of implicit biases than in the Netherlands, even though in my experience the biases are much weaker. Professors (at least where I was) are strongly encouraged to take the implicit bias test (developed at Harvard) https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/Study?tid=-1 Harvard actively recruits female professors Also in graduate programs they actively recruit girls (for example typically 40% of the PhD students in physics are women) What about: “you are only here because of positive discrimination, it is unfair” My experience: more positive discrimination, less comments.

4. TU Delft Back to the Netherlands What did I notice: – Still strong bias that a scientist is an old white male: 1)Wetenschaps visie 2)Complete lack of maternity/parental policy in the tenure track (because they forgot), clearly in the current policy the default is a man who works full time. 3)In the US typically you get one extra year in your tenure track for every baby. 4)ERC/NOW gives you 1.5 years

5. Questions?