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Notes on ETAN network
members
Mary Osborn
 (Committee Chair) (born 1940) has made a career in three
countries: the UK, USA and Germany.  She is a cell biologist at the Max
Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, and is an honorary
professor in the medical faculty at the University of Göttingen.  Her
research interests are in the cytoskeleton and the structure of the nucleus.
She was a trustee of the Swedish Foundation MISTRA, has chaired the
Scientific Advisory Board of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory
in Heidelberg, and is the current chair of the Cell Biology Section of
Academia Europaea.  She was rapporteur and speaker at the 1993 European
Commission Workshop  on  Women in Science, and a keynote speaker at the
1998 EC Conference.
Teresa Rees
 (Committee Rapporteur) (born 1949) is a social scientist and
Professor at the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, Wales, UK
(previously Professor of Labour Market Studies at the University of Bristol).
She specialises in education, training and labour market policies with a
special emphasis on mainstreaming gender equality. She is a long-term
consultant to the European Commission on mainstreaming and author/co-
editor of eight books including Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union
(1998 Routledge). She is the co-ordinator of a Commission co-funded
transnational research project on managing diversity and co-investigator on
a research council funded five-country study of adult guidance and the
learning society. She is the Equal Opportunities Commissioner for Wales
and a past member of the Economic and Social Research Council’s
Research Grants Board.
Mineke Bosch
 (born 1954) is an historian of gender and science and
associate professor at the Center for Gender and Diversity at the University
of Maastricht. She has published a major study on the history of women
and science in the Netherlands: Het geslacht van de wetenschap. Vrouwen en
hoger onderwijs in Nederland 1878-1948 (Amsterdam, 1994). From 1996-1998
she co-ordinated the equal opportunities policy of the University of
Maastricht, combining her (more theoretical) knowledge of gender and
science with the (more practical) policies of women and science. In 1999
she wrote and edited a background study on gender and diversity in science
for the National Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy: In
het hart van de wetenschap. Naar total E-quality en diversiteit in de universiteit.
(Den Haag,: SDU, 1999). She was on the advisory board for the Minister of
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Science policies in the European Union
Education and Science study concerned with the selection mechanisms of
the National Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO).
Helga Ebeling,
 Dipl.Päd. (born 1951) is a social scientist.  She is the head of
the ‘Women in Education and Research’ division in the Federal Ministry of
Education and Research in Germany.  She is responsible for national
strategies to mainstream gender equality in education and science policy.
She has also developed special activities in information technology and
business start-ups by women.  She is former national co-ordinator of the
EU initiative NOW and the IRIS network. She is the chairwoman of a
working group ‘promoting women in science’ of the Bund-Länder
Commission for Educational Planning and Research Promotion, which
prepared several national reports on women and science.  She is the author
of numerous publications on women and science, and women and
technology.
Claudine Hermann
 (born 1945) is Professor of Physics at Ecole Polytechnique,
the most renowned French engineering school. Her research domain is
optics of solids. She is alumna of Ecole Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles and
her PhD is in solid state physics. She was the first woman ever appointed
Professor at Ecole Polytechnique (1992). Since then, in parallel with her
activities in physics, she has been studying the situation of women scientists
in Western Europe and promoting science for girls, by papers and
conferences, in France and abroad. She usually works in a team with
Huguette Delavault, a Mathematics Professor in Paris.
Jytte Hilden
 (born in the 1940s) was educated as a chemical engineer and
has been a schoolteacher in chemistry, physics and the sciences for much of
her career. She is also a politician and belongs to the Social Democrat Party.
She was a member of the Danish parliament for 16 years and was first
Minister for Culture and later, Minister for Research and Information
Technology. She is concerned with gender issues and has been fighting for
women’s rights and gender equality all her life. While in office, she produced
the report Women and Excellence in Science, known as Hilden’s 11-point
Action Plan. She is currently head of cultural activities at the Royal Library
in Copenhagen
Anne McLaren
 (born 1927) has been employed as a research scientist by the
Agricultural Research Council and the Medical Research Council, and is
now working at the Wellcome/Cancer Research Campaign Institute of
Cancer and Developmental Biology at the University of Cambridge.  Her
research has centred on genetics, developmental biology and reproductive
biology.  She has been Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, the UK
Academy of Science (the first woman officer).  She was a member of the
Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Technology that was
responsible for publishing the UK report The Rising Tide in 1994.  She is
President of the Association for Women in Science and Engineering
(AWISE).
Rossella Palomba
 (born 1947) is a social demographer. She is Director of
research at the National Research Council and Head of the Department on
Family and Society at the National Institute for Population Research in
Rome. Her main fields of interest are related to the analysis of the changes
in the family structure and behaviour, couple formation and dissolution,
fertility and gender roles. She chaired two European networks: a) on
Population Policies, under the auspices of UN-ECE, and b) on Population
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