Beate Naroska Guest Professorships 2023

15 December 2023

The winners of the Beate Naroska Guest Professorship 2023, Mariana Graña (senior, left) and Jennifer Schober (junior, right).

Photo: Laurence Godart, Jennifer Schober

The laureates of the Beate Naroska Senior and Junior Guestprofessorships 2023, Mariana Graña (left) and Jennifer Schober (right).

Since 2020, the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe in cooperation with DESY annually awards two guest professorships to outstanding women scientists. The Beate Naroska guest professorships are part of the cluster’s commitment to promoting gender equity and diversity. They address advanced women scientists as well as established researchers in the fields of physics of the Higgs boson, dark matter, gravitational waves and quantum theory, who are active role models for female colleagues beyond their scientific work.

In 2023, the Beate Naroska Senior Guest Professorship is awarded to Mariana Graña, Director of Research at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Saclay (CEA/CNRS), France. The Junior Guest Professorship will be held by Jennifer Schober, research group leader at the Laboratory of Astrophysics (LASTRO, EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The selected researchers will be awarded 7,500 Euro (senior) and 5,000 Euro (junior). They are invited to spend up to six months in Hamburg and to actively participate in the scientific activities of the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe.

We are very much looking forward to welcoming both Mariana Graña and Jennifer Schober to the Beate Naroska Award Ceremony on Bahrenfeld Campus / DESY on April 23, 2024!

Beate Naroska

Particle physicist Beate Naroska (1943–2008) was a professor at Universität Hamburg from 1989 to 2008. During this time, she was one of the leading scientists of the H1 experiment at DESY's HERA collider. As a professor, she was a mentor for many students and young researchers. Beate Naroska studied physics in Göttingen and Hamburg. After her diploma, she received her doctorate at Universität Hamburg under Martin Teucher. From 1971 to 1978, she worked at CERN, where she conducted research on proton–proton scattering and on the development of multiwire proportional chambers. She then returned to DESY where she joined the JADE experiment at PETRA as responsible of the TOF system and researching on electroweak phenomena.