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About the author
Channah Herschberg obtained her BSc degree in Psychology from the VU University, Amsterdam, in 2009. Thereafter, she moved to London where she received an MSc degree in Human Resource Management and Organisational Analysis at King’s College London. She then worked at the VU University in Amsterdam where she was part of the ERCAREER research project. The European Research Council (ERC) working group on gender commissioned this project, to capture the gendered nature of the career paths of ERC grantees and applications, to help explain and possibly reduce the gender gap in success rates. Due to her work on this project, Channah wanted to continue studying gender and careers in science. When the opportunity came along, she applied for a PhD position at the Institute for Management Research (IMR) at Radboud University, Nijmegen. She worked there as a PhD candidate from 2014 till 2018 on a position funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme. As part of the GARCIA project team, Channah contributed to several research reports and workshops, in addition to her PhD work. Her research has received (inter)national media attention (see Appendix D) and Channah was invited for several presentations abroad. She was a visiting PhD at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona for a couple of months in 2017. During her PhD, Channah was an active member of the IMR PhD council, an organizing committee member for the International Doctoral Consortium 2016 in Halifax, and part of the Buddy Support System of the PhD Organisation Nijmegen. Channah currently holds a position as policy officer at the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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