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Maria Dolores Martin Bermudo nominates one of the 2025 Suffrage Science Awardees
published on 01/04/2025
The Suffrage Science Awards honour pioneering women in science, with the March 2025 awards focusing on Engineering and the Physical Sciences.
Professor Maria D. Martin-Bermudo nominated Dr. Wallon for the award. Dr. Martin-Bermudo says: “Gerlind has advocated an enormous effort to build a strong, wide-ranging and supportive community of scientists in Europe and beyond. From her actual position, as Deputy Director of EMBO, she continues tirelessly and determinedly working to promote diversity, inclusion and cooperation in science, always with optimism and a big smile”.
The award began in 2011 with a focus on women in the Life Sciences starting with a group of 11 women. It has since expanded and in 2014, one of the awardees was their own Vice Chancellor, Professor Irene Tracey. The award now recognises women in Engineering and Physical Sciences, as well as in Mathematics and Computing, celebrated on Ada Lovelace Day.
The beauty of this scheme is that each of the women who have been awarded a piece of Suffrage Science heirloom jewelery, nominate who they wish to pass on their award to every two years. Many of the award winners over the years have shared how this means so much more to them that one of their peers wants to give them recognition for their work. It also means that each heirloom creates its own 'family tree' as the award gets handed from one awardee to the next, creating an international network of inspiring female role models across all the Suffrage Science branches.
Since the Suffrage Science awards started, there have been 160 holders of the heirlooms creating a network of inspirational women from across the globe.
The 2025 Engineering and Physical Sciences awards recognizes 12 excellent scientists, among them: Dr Gerlind Wallon from European Molecular Biology Organization.
Congratulations to all the past and current awardees!
All the information about the 2025 Suffrage awards https://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/article/announcing-the-2025-suffrage-science-awardees-in-engineering-and-physical-sciences
