(ZEISS: Oberkochen, Germany) -- The ZEISS Women Award was given a special premiere this year: Outstanding female students and graduates from the Digital and IT sectors were recognized for the 14th time—and for the first time in the categories of Digital Research, Digital Entrepreneurship, and Digital Social Impact.

Every year, ZEISS inspires and encourages women to take up a career in the digital and IT sectors through its Women Award. This year’s prize winners, Fuzhan Rahmanian, Yasmin Al-Douri, and Lina Sophie Pfeiffer, were honored at a ceremony on Prater Island in Munich.

The patron of this year’s ZEISS Women Award was astrophysicist, author, and trainee astronaut Suzanna Randall. In her opening speech, she emphasized the importance of female role models, especially in STEM, and the need to motivate young women to take up science and research: “We need to show girls and women that there are no limits to what they can do in science and research. They can achieve great things—whether on Earth or in space.”

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