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Preceded by 967 men: meet the first woman in charge of the 600-year-old Leipzig University

Beate Schücking was re-elected to the position in 2017.
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  1. Denise Hruby

    1. Denise Hruby is a writer and editor in Austria.

In 2011, Beate Schücking became the first female head of Leipzig University in its 600-year history. A total of 967 men preceded her. Born in 1956, Schücking earned her medical degree at the age of 24 and her first professorship at 33, and is a specialist in maternal and child health research and psychosocial medicine. She was re-elected in 2017.

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Nature 567, S61 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00921-4

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

This article is part of Nature Career Guide: Germany, an editorially independent supplement. Advertisers have no influence over the content.

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