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Outreach

Outreach activities, and related material, for the project "Historical Female Influencers in Automatic Control" are described on this page. The list of activities is presented in cronological order with the most recent activity on top.

World map indicating where the exhibition has been. Illustration.

Recording of the inControl podcast

November 26, 2025

Listen to the recording on the website of inControl. 

Five photos of people participating in a podcast. Collage.
Margret Bauer, Charlotta Johnsson, Alberto Padoan, Roman Frischknecht, and Eva Westin during the recording of the podcast.

Exhibition at the ELLIIT annual workshop

October 21-22, 2025 - Norrköping, Sweden

Eight banners displayed in a churchlike building. Photo.
All our banners displayed during the Elliit workshop.

Participation at the Annual Lise Meitner day at LTH

October 16, 2025 - Lund, Sweden

Woman in front of a screen displaying a Powerpoint presentation. Photo.
Professor Charlotta Johnsson lays out the numbers for women in science and technology in general, and for the field of Automatic Control in particular. Photo: Kennet Ruona

Articles on LTHin about the Lise Meitner day 2025:

Exhibition at the American Control Conference 2025 

July 7-10, 2025 - Denver CO, USA

Banner in a conference room with header "Historical Female Influencers in Automatic Control". Photo.
One of the banners at the American Control Conference.

New textbook highlights the work of Irmgard Flügge-Lotz

2025

New text book in Automatic Control (Regelungstechnik in der Biotechnologie: Prozessautomatisierung – Bioverfahrenstechnik – Advanced Process Control by Margret Bauer) highlights the work of our role-model Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, and uses the artistic image from our project.

Exhibition at the bi-annual Swedish control conference (IFAC Sweden)

June 11-13, 2025 - Lund, Sweden

Exhibition at the 59th Kolloquium on Control Systems

March 26-28, 2025 - Boppard, Germany

Website of the Regelungstechnisches Kolloquium in Boppard (in German)

Two photos of banners with people in front of it.
Conference committee members Steffi Knorn (TU Berlin) and Tobias Kleinert (RWTH Aachen) in front of our banners of Eveline Gottzein and Irmgard Flügge-Lotz.

NMT-days at Lund University

March 19, 2025 - Lund, Sweden

Presentation for high-school students from southern Sweden about historical and future female influencers in Automatic Control. 

International Day of Women and Girls in Science

February 11, 2025

  • International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) highlights this day by using the artistic portraits from our project.
  • Quote by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres "On the tenth anniversary of this important day, and as we reflect on 30 years since Beijing Declaration, let's help pave a path to STEM careers that women and girls deserve - and our world needs"
Poster with illustration of women with title "10th anniverary International Day of Women and Girls in Science".

Exhibition at Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

December 16-19, 2024 - Milan, Italy

Diversity and Incusion Workshop at University of Mauritius

Notebook with text Who is your role model. Photo.

September 20, 2024 - Ebene, Mauritius

An oral presentation for young students and high-shool pupils followed by group discussions. Notebooks were handed out to the attendees.

Article about the workshop at University of Mauritius - on LTHin (in Swedish)

 

 

 

 

Group photo in front of a projector screen.

Control Conference Africa 2024 

September 15-17, 2024 - Balaclava, Mauritius

Oral presentation and luncheon at the conference venue.

Image from the presentation at the conference in Africa in 2024. Photo.

75th anniversary for automatic control in Sweden

June 27, 2024 - Stockholm Sweden

Oral presentation at KTH, Stockholm Sweden.

YouTube presentation from the 75th anniversary for automatic control in Sweden. Screenshot.

Presentation available on YouTube (in Swedish)

European Control Conference (ECC)

June 25-28, 2024 - Stockholm, Sweden

Exhibition with banners at the main atrium of the conference, KTH Stockholm Sweden. 

Posters at the European Control Conference (ECC) registration. Photo.
Posters at the European Control Conference (ECC) registration. Photo.

Article about the European Control Conference (ECC) in Digital Futures

IFAC PID conference

June 12-14, 2024 - Almeria, Spain

Exhibition with large posters at the conference registration.

Large posters at the IFAC PID conference registration. Photo.

International Women’s Day – ELLIIT Workshop

March 8, 2024 - Lund, Sweden

International Women’s Day, first exhibition with banners at ELLIIT Workshop at Lund University (Excellence Center at Linköping and Lund in Information Technology).

Banners at ELLIIT Workshop 2024. Photo.
Workshop participants in front of banners at ELLIIT Workshop 2024. Photo.

IFAC Newsletter article

February 2024

IFAC Newsletter article on the IFAC Activity Fund and special mention of the Female Historical Influencers in Control project (PDF, 1.26 MB, new tab)

Japanese Delegation at Lund University

February 9, 2024 - Lund, Sweden

Oral presentation

LTH, Faculty of Engineering at Lund University

December 6, 2023 - Lund, Sweden

Oral presentation

Sonja Kovalevski Day

November 10, 2023 - Örebro, Sweden

Sonja Kovalevski Day at Örebro University, Sweden, with school pupils in their final years who have shown great potential in maths and sciences, oral presentation.

A presentation on the Sonja Kovalevski Day. Photo.

Historical female influencers in automatic control publication

August 2023

Publication: Johnsson, C., Jönsson-Belyazid, U., Westin, E., Soltesz, K., Hägglund, T., & Bauer, M. (2023). Historical female influencers in automatic control. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 56(2), 4693-4698.

Historical female influencers in automatic control publication on Science Direct

IFAC World Congress

July 10, 2023 - Yokohama, Japan

Oral presentation in track on control education (TC9.4)

Presentation at the IFAC World Congress in Japan 2023. Photo.

Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) flinta* day

June 10,  2023 - Hamburg, Germany

Oral presentation on women in control to students and staff from all faculties

Contact

Charlotta Johnsson 

charlotta [dot] johnsson [at] control [dot] lth [dot] se (charlotta[dot]johnsson[at]control[dot]lth[dot]se)

Eva Westin 

eva [dot] westin [at] control [dot] lth [dot] se (eva[dot]westin[at]control[dot]lth[dot]se)

Margret Bauer 

margret [dot] bauer [at] haw-hamburg [dot] de (margret[dot]bauer[at]haw-hamburg[dot]de) 

Last updated: 5 May 2026 | anders [dot] nilsson [at] control [dot] lth [dot] se