“When you follow your passion, you don’t really care what other people think about you.” - Irina Borodina

Irina Borodina from DTU talks to Alex Felman (Startup42Media) about STEM and the underrepresentation of women in STEM. Irina highlights the lack of female role models in upper levels of management, and how to overcome the disappointing reality.

Irina is a professor at DTU - Technical University of Denmark and Co-founder and CTO at BioPhero. She directs a research group on Yeast Metabolic Engineering at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, DTU. Irina received a Chemical Engineering degree from Kaunas University of Technology and a PhD degree in #Biotechnology from DTU. #womeninSTEM #womenintech #Nordics #Baltics #innovation