Petra Rudolf - Curriculum Vitae#

University degrees:

1) Laurea in Fisica [MSc in Physics]] 1987 at the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
2) Doctorat en Sciences (groupe des Sciences Physiques) [PhD in Physics]] 1995 at the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix de Namur, Belgium.

Scientific productivity:

Total times cited 8820, h-index 49 (Web of Science);
17 articles with >100 citations;
>100 invited talks worldwide.

Visiting professorships:

• 2013 University of São Paulo, Brazil
  
• 2013 University of Santiago, Chile
  
• 2009 Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy
  
• 2006 Università degli Studi di Modena, Italy

Teaching and educational activity:

An important part of Professor Rudolf’s efforts as an educator was centered on the Groningen Graduate School of Science and Engineering, where she has been director between 2014-2018. In this capacity, she oversaw the entire M.Sc. and Ph.D. curriculum. At the end of her mandate, 7 of the programs were elected as the first in the country by the students, and the number of applications had increased by 28%. She was involved in the management of her home institution, the Zernike Institute for nine years (five years as chair of the Board), during which the institute moved up in the THE ranking of materials science research institutes to the 4th place worldwide, 1st in Europe. She supervised 19 Bachelor’s (6 women), 34 Master’s (14 women) and 27 PhD (10 women) theses. These statistics themselves are impressive in such a male-dominated scientific area, but the number of female scientists whose life has been touched by interaction with Professor Rudolf is much larger.