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Professor Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer achieves International Society of Women Engineers Award

Professor Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 Trailblazer Award by the International Society of Women Engineers (SWE).

12 December 2024
SWE 2024 Trailblazer award. A glass sphere on top of a glass stand engraved with Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer, PhD, University of Birmingham

SWE 2024 Trailblazer award. The award is engraved with Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer, PhD, University of Birmingham.

Professor Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer, from the Healthcare Technologies Institute,  has made notable contributions to the field of engineering by leading research focused on advancing micro to nanomaterials engineering. Her work has earned recognition through the 2024 International Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Trailblazer Award. This prestigious Ascent-level award, part of the Academia, Management, and Technology sub-track, recognizes women of active engagement in engineering, engineering management, education, technology, or science related to engineering. The honour celebrates outstanding performance and leadership in a technical field as well as significant contributions to professional organizations and the broader community, driving progress and advancement in STEM.

Speaking of the achievement, Professor Goldberg Oppenheimer said:

I am honoured to be selected for the international Trailblazer Award in Engineering, as a testament for significant and substantive contributions, continually shaping the contours of the field of Biomedical Engineering. This Trailblazer Award recognises, through my leadership, that women are agents of change, along with my scientific contributions in revolutionising the down-to-single-molecule level sensors for rapid molecular detection, through the rational design via hybrid pioneering pattering technique and synthetic nanochemistry for ultra-selective plasmonic nanoroughness, where 52 years after the birth of this field, have provided the community with an orchestrated advancement in nanofabrication of design surfaces and empirically validated and resolved the many issues in the field, unlocking its potential as a widespread analytical tool and its influence on the applied spectroscopic molecular systems scientific community agenda.

Professor P. Goldberg Oppenheimer

In 2024, the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) restructured its annual awards programme to better reflect the organisation’s key priorities, including global inclusivity, advocacy, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEI&B).

The SWE Awards Programme celebrates high levels of achievement among those who identify as women and allies at all career stages in engineering, engineering technology, or science related to engineering. Separately, the SWE Recognition Programme acknowledges additional achievements by SWE sections and affiliates, as well as those who identify as women and allies in engineering, engineering technology, or science related to engineering.

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  • Professor Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer

    Professor in Micro-Engineering and Bio-Nanotechnology

    Staff profile for Dr Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer, School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham.

    Phone: +44 (0) 121 414 5287
    Email: goldberp@bham.ac.uk

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