Dr. Sonja Reiland

Dr. Sonja Reiland is the manager of the European coordinated project LIBRA (eu-libra.eu), unifying innovative efforts of research centers in life sciences to achieve gender equality in academia. She is a member of the international and scientific affairs team at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) Barcelona, which is committed to fostering excellence at the CRG and supporting the director through diverse institutional and strategic initiatives. Besides managing and co-coordinating LIBRA, Sonja participates in the development of institutional policies concerning Gender Equality and Open Science and promotes actively a cultural change at the CRG in these topics. She obtained her PhD in at ETH Zurich, followed by a post-doctoral experience at EMBL Heidelberg. After her career in academic research working in diverse fields of life sciences Sonja worked for BASF in Ludwigshafen as an Information Professional, supporting scientists and patent attorneys with scientific and patent information for strategic decisions