Dr. Elizabeth Pollitzer
After graduating with a joint honors degree in Biology and Physics, Elizabeth obtained a PhD in Information Science, which led to almost 20 years teaching and researching expert system and human-computer interaction at the Department of Computing at Imperial College, London. Elizabeth has been an Academic Reviewer for the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council. She was 'bio-natural and technical' expert on the advisory panel of the EC funded meta-analysis project on gender and science research across Europe, and is currently an expert adviser on technical and policy issues for the European Commission. She co-founded and is director of Portia, a not-for-profit organization promoting gender equality in science, which led on three EC funded projects Equalitec, EU Return and genSET, and is the architect of the Gender Summit, a global platform for multi stakeholder dialogue to improve quality and equality in research.