Junior Scientist Workshop on Mechanistic Cognitive Neuroscience

Organisers:
Gabriela Michel, Gowan Tervo, Michael Reiser, Emily Dennis, Josh Dudman, Vanessa Ruta, and Vivek Jayaraman

Invited speakers gender ratio: 3 Women: 4 Men (43%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 45%*
BWN rating: 2 (within 1 standard deviation below base rate)

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience.

Human Brain Project Summit 2021: Scientific Conference on Brain Research

Organisers (Program committee members):
Pawel Swieboda, Katrin Amunts, Lars Kluver, Jan Bjaalie, France Nivelle, Sabine Ruland, Patricia Carvajal, Lisa Otten, Roman Volchenkov

Invited speaker gender ratio: 17 Women: 27 Men (39%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%
BWN rating: 2

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the field of neuroscience.

The Brain Prize 2021: Seminar Series

Organisers:
Martin Meyer
Gitte Grove Stig
Louise Bruun

Invited speakers gender ratio: 4 Women: 8 Men (33%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 38%*
BWN rating: 2

*Method of estimation: Using previously calculated base rate of women in pain neuroscience research.

Current and Future Applications of Network and Control Sciences for Psychiatry

Organisers:
Jasper Bischofberger
Peter Dayan
Birgit Derntl
Andreas J. Fallgatter
Marc Hirt
Hamidreza Jamalabadi

Invited speakers gender ratio: 3 Women: 12 Men (20%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 29%*
BWN rating: 2

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational psychiatry.

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN 2020)

Organizers: Steve Phelps & Steve Chang
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Women: 6 Men (33%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 41%*
BWN rating: 2

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords social neuroscience, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 3 pages of results using our python script.

Mental Effort: One Construct Many Faces?

Conference date: 09/09/2021
Organizers: Laura Bustamante, Maria Wirzberger, Ivan Grahek & Sebastian Musslick
Invited speaker gender ratio: 5 Women: 7 Men (42%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 37-52%*
BWN rating: 2

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience.

Neural Control: From Data to Machines

Organizers: Florentin Wörgötter & Christian Tetzlaff
Sponsors: European Union’s Horizon 2020 and Innovation Programme
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women: 17 Men (11%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 17-20%*
BWN rating: 2

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.

Predictive Processing Symposium: From Concept to Circuits

Conference date: 10/30/2020
Organizer: Helmut Leder (Head of the Vienna CogSciHub)
Total invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Women: 4 Men (0%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 17-20%*
BWN rating: 2

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.

Neurotechnology NIN Summer School

Conference date: 06/24/2021
Sponsors: Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Invited speakers gender ratio: 2 Women: 9 Men (22%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 31%*
BWN rating: 2

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “neurotechnology”, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 4 pages of results using our python script. We left 4 names unclassified.

Brain Criticality Virtual Meeting

Organizers: Dietmar Plenz, Lucilla de Arcangelis, Dante Chialvo & Demian Battaglia
Faculty gender ratio: 4 Women: 14 Men (22%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 29%*
BWN rating: 2

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords “systems neuroscience”, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 5 pages of results using our python script.