Dear female engineer or student,

Will you also come to the lunch session with successful female engineers who will talk to us? They will have an inspiring story about their career or position and answer all your questions. You can ask them many questions, for instance about the choices they have made, about gender equality developments, about empowerment, about ..

There is also the possibility of applying yourself for an internship or a vacancy / open application through this channel. You have direct access to a company where you would like to work or do an internship.

Every month we organise an online lunch session with a top woman!

Are you coming? Reserve the following dates in your diary:

- 12 March

- 16 April

We always start at 12.30 pm and end around 1.30 pm. You can have lunch behind your laptop. Will you prepare some questions in advance? Everyone can ask at least one question and it would be nice if you have prepared three questions.

On Friday 12 March we would like to give the floor to Natasha Maurits.

Prof Natasha Maurits is professor of clinical neuroengineering and Chief Scientific Information Officer (CSIO) and works at UCMG in Groningen in a male-dominated professional field. Here, she leads a team of 35 people. She is also a mentor, mostly for women, and enjoys helping others along the way.

Bio Natasha Maurits:

Natasha Maurits (Applied Mathematics (MSc 1994), Biophysical Chemistry (PhD 1998)), is full professor of Clinical Neuroengineering at the department of Neurology of the University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands, as well as Chief Scientific Information Officer (CSIO), heading the section Information Management for Research, Education and Training of UMCG(https://www.rug.nl/staff/n.m.maurits/; www.clinicalneuroengineering.com ). She is also visiting professor at Strathclyde University in Glasgow (UK) and the University of Lincoln (UK). Her research focuses on clinical neuroengineering, in particular biomedical signal analysis, multimodal neuroimaging, high-density EEG recording, visualisation of high-dimensional data and home-based diagnosis and monitoring with applications in neurology (movement disorders, neuromuscular disorders, dementia, stroke, trauma) and cognition (healthy ageing, dyslexia).

She has published more than 180 international peer-reviewed papers as well as two books (From neurology to methodology and back: an introduction to clinical neuroengineering (2012) and Math for scientists: refreshing the essentials (2017), both with Springer). Furthermore, she is a senior member of IEEE, member of the Advisory Board of the School of Mathematics of the University of Groningen (UoG), member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Lincoln School of Mathematics and Physics (UK) and chair of the Dutch Biomedical Engineering Conference.