Dr. Wiebke Diestelkamp is the equity advisor for the College of Arts and Sciences at UD, where she is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics. As equity advisor, Dr. Diestelkamp facilitates bias-free faculty searches; reviews annual scorecard data for her college, alerting the department chair and/or dean of inequities based on salary, space and professional development; and implements equity programming aligned with the unique diversity needs of her unit.

At the institution, Dr. Diestelkamp has served on the Academic Senate and its Academic Policies Committee, the Research Council and the College of Arts & Sciences Academic Affairs Committee. She was a faculty mentor for a minority student in mathematics for the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation program, and she has served as a mentor for a new female faculty member in biology. She is currently serving on the Judicial Hearing Board. In 2002 and 2004, she was a co-organizer of Conversations among Women in Mathematics, a program consisting of a panel on careers and workshops on various topics in mathematics.

Dr. Diestelkamp’s research interests are in design of experiments and combinatorics. She is a member of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and the American Statistical Association (ASA). She is active in the Ohio Section of the MAA, serving as liaison coordinator and as co-organizer of Ohio NExT (New Experiences in Teaching), a professional development program for new mathematics faculty in Ohio.