Head of Department, Gender and Diversity in Organizations, Technical University Berlin; Director of Responsible Research and Innovation Unit, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany.

Martina Schraudner received her PhD in Biology from the Technical University of Munich, and worked as a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) and the Forschungszentrum Jülich. She obtained her "Inauguration as a Lecturer" (Habilitation) at the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

She then accepted a position with Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft where her main responsibility was in strategic research planning with an emphasis on life sciences. Since 2008, she is also professor for "Gender and Diversity in Organisations" at the Technical University of Berlin. Martina Schraudner has participated in a number of initiatives related to the "Partners for Innovation" project and for the development of a high-tech strategy for Germany; she is member of the Hochschulrat of the Paderborn University and is board member of the Kompetenzzentrum Diversity e.V. and Total E-Quality e.V.