In November 2025, our SFB 1313 post-doctoral researcher and managing director Samaneh Vahid Dastjerdi from the Institute for Applied Mechanics of the University of Stuttgart gave an interview within the podcast “Zia – Audible women in science”. In issue #29, she talks about her work within SFB 1313.
Samaneh Vahid Dastjerdi was one of the Zia fellows of the year 2024/25 of the Zeitverlage Gern Bucerius GmbH & Co. Kg. She was supported by SFB 1313 and the university’s Pooling “Synergies for equal opportunities in collaborative research networks”.
About the Zia "Visible Women in Science" Fellowship Program
The ZEIT Zia fellowship program is an initiative that aims to support female scientists in their career and personal development in cooperation with partners, supporters and sponsors. It's about female empowering, networking and science communication.
During one year, the fellows attended networking meetings with each other, they participated in different workshops, specifically aiming to learn how to communicate their own research the best way possible: that means to make their research accessible and to communicate it in an easy understandable way. Even all of the fellows are researchers, they are all working in different disciplines.
The fellows and their research were presented in a DIE ZEIT print paper, published in December 2024, as well as online on the Zia website.