Diversity and Discrimination in Research Organizations

Clemens Striebing is a Senior Researcher with a focus on organization research at the Center for Responsible Research and Innovation (CeRRI) of Fraunhofer IAO in Germany. He studied political science and public law at the Free University of Berlin and received his doctorate in organizational sociology from the University of Heidelberg. At Fraunhofer CeRRI, Clemens deals with diversity and discrimination in the innovation system, organizational cultures and the transfer and exploitation of research outputs. His experience includes management of and participation in numerous national and international research projects for public and private clients. Clemens teaches demand-oriented and diversity-sensitive innovation development at TU Berlin.


Joerg Mueller is a Researcher at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) at the Open University of Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona, Spain where he forms part of the Gender and ICT research program. He obtained his PhD in Communications at the European Graduate School (EGS) in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and holds a degree in Sociology and Computer Science from the Free University in Berlin, Germany. He has been an expert adviser to the European Commission DG Research and Innovation. Main research interests include practice-based approach to gender (in)equality, the science of team science, and new, data intensive research methods within the social sciences. He has been coordinating the European projects "GenPORT - Your gateway to gender and science resources" (2013-2017), GEDII - "Gender-Diversity-Impact" (2015-2018) , and "ACT - Communities of Practice for Accelerating Gender Equality and Institutional Change in Research and Innovation across Europe." (2018-2021).


Martina Schraudner holds the Chair "Gender and Diversity in Technology and Product Development" at the Technical University of Berlin, developed the Center for Responsible Research and Innovation at Fraunhofer IAO and is a board member of the acatech - National Academy of Science and Engineering. Martina deals with methods, instruments and processes that make diversity accessible to organizations and companies. With a PhD in biology from Technical University of Munich, Martina has held various positions at the German Research Center for Environmental Health (gsf), ETH Zurich and Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ). She is active in national and international committees for application-oriented research and innovation projects, among others as director of the Gendered Innovations Webpage, member of the Gender Summit Committee and the "Structural Change" group of experts of the EU.