#women-in-stem

#women-in-stem

Chatterjee works in the emerging and male-dominated field of gravitational-wave science. She studies neutron stars - ultra-dense cores that are left over when massive stars collapse - by looking at gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of space-time. It's an approach that brings together several disciplines, including nuclear, particle and condensed-matter physics. On her return to India in 2020, she joined the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in Pune.

She also doesn't understand why, as a woman in my 40s, I like certain things that she considers childish, like animated films. However, when I think about her childhood, I realize that she probably still has unhealed trauma that was never dealt with. She was born in France, just two months before the Nazis marched in, and spent the first five years of her life in wartime and economic struggles.

I would not call myself godmother of anything,

First, there was girl math. Then there was girl dinner. And now we'd like to introduce you to girl tools. It's like the time you opened a bottle of wine with nothing but a Bic pen or the time you repaired your glasses with eyelash glue. Girl tools - they are ingenious, they get the job done, and they might just be a high-heeled shoe or a Lego block, who knows?