directed at employees and students. Responding to questions by the journal Nature, Kauffmann denied the accusations of racism, sexism and homophobia, claiming that she is merely interested in cultural differences between people and Buzzfeed had made severe errors. She conceded that as a student she was subject to "very high pressure supervision", acknowledging however that such a mentoring style "has now become unacceptable" and claiming to have changed her behavior substantially after complaints were received. This and other cases sparked a general debate about the abuse of power in science. In August 2018, Science Magazine reported allegations of bullying and sexual harassment at the MPI for Astrophysics in Garching and reported that Kauffmann had been accused of bullying, was receiving coaching and daily monitoring, and had been given a drastically reduced group to lead. In an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the director of the MPI admitted that the scandal had shown deficiencies in and the need for improvement of the MPI's procedures for dealing with complaints. Selected publications . References Sources Portrait at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft CV External links 1968 births Living people Science teachers 20th-century German astronomers Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners University of Cape Town alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge Max Planck Society people Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences American expatriates in Germany Scientists from California 21st-century German astronomers