‘I always feel listened to’
SDU's first woman dean, Marianne Holmer, took office as dean at the Faculty of Science a year ago. She certainly feels different from her male colleagues but believes it’s as much due to her personality as her gender.
Meet the researcher
Marianne Holmer, holmer@sdu.dk, is 55 years old. She is Dean of the Faculty of Science and Director of the Danish Institute of Advanced Study (D-IAS) at SDU. Marianne Holmer holds a PhD from the Department of Biology at the former Odense University, and she has worked in ecology in the coastal zone with a focus on man-made impacts on the marine environment.