Jadranka Gvozdanovic

Professor Jadranka Gvozdanović (Heidelberg University) obtained her PhD in Slavic studies and experimental phonetics from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1979. She spent her postdoctoral years at the same institution before being appointed professor of Slavic linguistics at the University of Mannheim, Germany, in 1997. During her time in Mannheim, Prof. Gvozdanović served as dean of her faculty 2000 to 2003 and then became a full professor of Slavic linguistics at Heidelberg University, Germany. She served her university as president of the Gender Commission from 2005 until 2017 and in various other functions, university-internal and international.  Jadranka Gvozdanović was a member of the steering committee of the LERU Gender Group since the initiation in 2010 and later chair of the LERU Policy Group on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion until December of 2021.

Professor Gvozdanović is a linguist as well as a gender expert, and her research in both fields focuses on explaining change processes. She has published nine single-authored and coedited books and more than one hundred articles. In addition, she has co-authored several LERU publications on gender, including lead-authorship of "Implicit bias in academia: a challenge to the meritocratic principle and to women’s careers – and what to do about it" (LERU 2018).