Women in IR was co-founded by Laura Dietz and Shiri Dori-Hacohen in 2015.
The group is currently headed by Gabriella Pasi.
Meet the women behind Women in IR!


WIR Organizing Committee


Gabriella Pasi
University of Milano-Bicocca

Maria Maistro
University of Copenhagen

Nazli Goharian
Georgetown University

Monica Landoni
Universita della Svizzera Italiana

Sudeshna Das
Emory University

Fay Sokli
University of Milano-Bicocca
PhD student member

Xinyu Lin
National University of Singapore
PhD student member

Co-organizer (2025)


Faegheh Hasibi
Radboud University


Co-organizer (2025)


Emine Yilmaz
University College London


Co-chair (2021)


Hannah Bast
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg
Head, Chair of Algorithms and Data Structures


Co-chair (2019 - 2020)


Suzan Verberne
Professor, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science
Group Leader, Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden


Co-founder & Co-organizer (2015 - 2018)


Laura Dietz
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of New Hampshire


Co-founder & Co-organizer (2015 - 2016)


Shiri Dori-Hacohen
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Connecticut
Founder & Chair of the Board, AuCoDe


Past Volunteers


Myung-ha Jang
PhD Candidate
CIIR, University of Massachusetts Amherst


Elinor Brondwine
MSc Student
Technion