The Doctoral Program MOLECULAR DRUG TARGETS („MolTag“) is pleased to invite to the following guest lecture:
By Professor Rigoberto HERNANDEZ, PhD
Gompf Family Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
r.hernandez@jhu.edu; http://rh.jhu.edu
Host: Prof. Leticia GONZÁLEZ
Title: “Advancing Chemistry Through Diversity”
On: Wednesday, November 9, at 5:00 p.m.
At: UZA 2, Josef Holaubek-Platz 2, 1090 Vienna, Lecture Hall 5 (HS 5)
Abstract:
The Open Chemistry Collaborative in Diversity Equity (OXIDE) is aimed at institutional reform so as to lower inequitable barriers hindering the success of faculty from diverse groups. We implement the "top-down" hypothesis by asserting that academic middle managers---namely, department heads and chairs---held accountable for diversity and inclusion will make sustained and significant improvements in the representation and climate of their deportments. The collaborative itself is a partnership with the department heads of research-active chemistry departments, social scientists and other key stakeholders. The lowering of these barriers increases the likelihood that individuals already in the tenure pipeline will have equitable chances of success and thereby leads to changes in faculty demographics closer to availability. We will report on OXIDE's approaches to increase awareness of effective policies and practices that decrease inequitable barriers and improve the diversity climate in research-active chemistry departments. We will discuss how these findings can inform the intentional management of inclusive excellence.
RESEARCH PROFILE: Dr. Rigoberto Hernandez is the Gompf Family Professor in the Dept. of Chemistry at the Johns Hopkins Univ., and the Director of the Open Chemistry Collaborative in Diversity Equity (OXIDE). He is also a Professor in the Depts of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins Univ. Before joining Hopkins in 2016, he was a Professor in the School of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Georgia Tech for 20 years. He was born in Havana, Cuba and is a U.S. Citizen by birthright. He holds a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering and Mathematics from Princeton Univ. (1989), and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from UC Berkeley (1993). His research area can be broadly classified as the theoretical and computational chemistry of systems far from equilibrium with applications to colloidal suspensions, liquid crystals, sustainable nanotechnologies, protein folding and rearrangement, autonomous computing machines, and energetic formulations. The work is presently supported by the NSF, DOE and Sloan Foundation.
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