HYPATIA.SCIENCE
An initiative to promote young female scientists at the Department of Mathematics/Computer Science
Contact: hypatia-math-cs
uni-koeln.de
In the transition from undergraduate to doctoral studies, the proportion of women in mathematics and computer science is declining significantly: while almost half of Bachelor's and Master's students are still female, the proportion among doctoral students has fallen to around 25%. At the same time, experience shows that involving female students in research projects at an early stage can encourage them to choose a career in science.
Against this background, HYPATIA.SCIENCE provides project-related financial support for female students in mathematics and computer science. The aim of the funding is to give female students a qualified insight into everyday scientific research and to introduce them to independent research activities at an early stage in order to increase the proportion of female scientific staff in the department in the long term.
HAPATIA.SCIENCE has awarded the Jenny Gusyk Prize 2021 in the "Innovation" category. The University of Cologne awards three of these prizes annually in the field of gender &/or queer studies/gender equality/family-friendly leadership. We are very pleased about the recognition of our commitment.
Research Grant 2026
Preparations are currently underway for the HYPATIA.SCIENCE research grant 2026. The corresponding call for proposals will be available as a PDF below in the coming months.
Previously funded research projects
Call for proposals 2025
Janina Tikko - Swarm-based methods for non-convex optimization
Call for proposals 2023
Anja Balovneva - Numerical solution of control problems with PDEs on metric graphs
Anahita Pouralijanki - Representation theory of finite-dimensional algebras
Annika Vogt - Requirements engineering meets prompt engineering
Hannah Windgasse - Starting IPS: Implementation of a prototype for course planning
S.H. - Graph Neural Networks Meet Climate Modeling
Call for proposals 2022
Sarah Knoll - BPX preconditioner for variational inequalities
Kira Hoffmann - Optimal control of the insurance surplus process through reinsurance
Call for proposals 2021
Chong-Son Dröge - Numerical spectral analysis on non-equilateral metric graphs
Jasmin Ginkel - Rogers-Ramanujan type identities
Lea Marie Hüpper - Computational analysis of the density of lattice packings of rounded tetrahedra
Call for proposals 2020
Svenja Griesbach - Pandoras box problems on metric spaces
Anna Nechamkina - Recurrence and transiency in Boolean random graphs
Pauline Scharf - Local harmonic measure forms on hyperbolic space
Antonia Thiemeyer - Local optima of Gaussian mass
Anouk Weber - Models of mathematical epidemiology and scientific machine learning
The project reports of the completed projects can be found here.