On June 21st 2021, Prof. Dr. Uschi Backes-Gellner from the University of Zurich, was presented with an honorary doctor's degree in economic and social sciences, at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. With 140 honorary doctor's degrees from the faculty since 1880, she is the first woman since 1924 to have received an honorary degree, out of four women in total. Prof. Dr. Uschi Backes-Gellner obtained her doctoral degree in Trier, where she also acquired her habilitation. Prior to 1994, she was an academic councillor at the Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union. Click here to find more information.