OUR MOTIVATION
The UK has many leading womxn academics, entrepreneurs, business women and womxn in industry who come from physics backgrounds. These womxn play an important role in inspiring the new generation of womxn in physics.
Cavendish Inspiring Womxn (CiW) aims to help raise the visibility of such successful womxn by putting them in front of younger womxn considering careers in physics.
Our projects include holding speaker events, networking sessions, undergraduate tutorial sessions, social events, mentoring schemes and the publication of outreach materials.
2020/21 COMMITTEE
Aswathy V Girija
Co-President
PhD Student, Optoelectronics
Marika Niihori
Co-President
PhD Student, Nanophotonics
Simone Eizagirre
Secretary
PhD Student, Atomic, Mesoscopic and Optical Physics
Fionn Bishop
Treasurer
PhD Student, High Energy Physics
Amita Ummadisingu
Outreach co-chair
Swiss National Science Foundation Fellow, Optoelectronics
Dr. Juliane Borchert
Social Media Officer
PostDoc, Optoelectronics
Meg Groom
Welfare Officer
PhD Student, Nanophotonics
Maria Julia Maristany
Outreach co-chair
PhD Student, Theory of Condensed Matter
Suchitra Sebastian
Senior Treasurer
University Reader, Department of Physics
Radha Mastandrea
Events Chair
MPhil Student, High Energy Physics
ALUMNI
CiW would not have been possible without the leadership and contribution of our previous committee members.
Hannah Stern, former President
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, former President
Ankita Anirban, former Co-President
Sarah Morgan, former President
Heather Goodwin, former Welfare Officer
Nimisha Kumari, former Public Engagement Officer
Darshana Joshi, former International Engagement Officer
Atefeh Amin, Alumna
If we have missed anyone, please reach out to us!