Corinna Salander

Corinna Salander is a German physicist and engineer who has been serving as director of the German Centre for Rail Traffic Research (DZSF) since 2020.

Career

She studied physics from 1987 to 1993 at University of Kiel. From 1999 to 2014, she held multiple executive positions at Deutsche Bahn, European Union Agency for Railways and Bombardier. She was the first female European professor in railway transport technology.

Life She is married and a mother of three children.

In 2018, she participated as one of the four expert in the Tübinger Achtbar. According to Prof. Corinna Salander, the fact that the majority of German women currently do not take up scientific and technical professions is at least partly due to their own comfort. In Mai 2022, she participated in a F.A.Z.-podcast Women and men do not fit together with her husband Volker Looman.

Awards (selection) On 29 October 2021, she became an awardee of the Golden environmental rail .

Works (selection) Corinna Salander: "Das Europäische Bahnsystem: Akteure, Prozesse, Regelwerk", 2019, Springer Vieweg,