Everyone has a voice.
Not everyone’s voice is heard.
STEMvocacy.org is an advocacy platform for STEM and its people. Our effort promotes equal access to inflection points in STEM career development. We also advocate for research and knowledge dissemination, because new findings can take decades until they reach the textbooks and everyday practice. Open access and outreach can speed up this process.
The advocacy platform was founded in 2025 by Britta Langen, a transclass academic and long-term migrant. She is the first generation to attain
A-levels in her family, the first university graduate, and the only one to live abroad for her education and receive a doctorate. Her retirement will come from three countries and she looks forward to the paperwork. She has lived and worked in five countries across three continents and speaks four languages. The frequent changes in academic structures and workplace culture gave her valuable insights on human systems and systemic bias.
STEMvocacy.org builds on this knowledge to raise awareness and improve upwards permeability for underrepresented minorities, new arrivals, and other disadvantaged peers.
Meet the Founder
Britta Langen
Ph.D., Ph.Lic., Dipl.-Biol.
Britta Langen holds a Ph.D. and Ph.Lic. from Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and a Dipl.-Biol. from RWTH Aachen University (Germany). Her background spans molecular biology, radiation research, and informatics. Her doctoral thesis earned the Assar Gabrielsson Award for basic scientific research in 2018.
She completed part of her training at the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique in Paris (France) as an ERASMUS fellow through the École Normale Supérieure, and wrote her undergraduate thesis at the German Aerospace Center in Cologne. Dr. Langen has also worked as a visiting collaborative researcher at several international institutions, including HIMAC–NIRS in Chiba (Japan), GANIL in Caen (France), and MD Anderson in Houston (USA).
Within the Radiation Research Society, she became the longest-serving Chair of the Scholars-in-Training Committee. Under her leadership, the first EDI initiative, Radiation Researchers for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, was founded in June 2020. Dr. Langen has been a Visiting Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, USA. She started science advocacy during the NIH funding crisis in 2025.
Outside the lab, Britta enjoys rock climbing, classical literature, and playing the guitar. She is also passionate about keeping her teammates alive in competitive esports titles.
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