International Women's Day - March 8
Given that today, March 8, 2017, is the [...]
Given that today, March 8, 2017, is International Women's Day, we recover the news item from Grupo Álava in which interviews with Women Scientists are collected.
On February 11, International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Grupo Álava contributed its grain of sand by sharing interviews with Women Scientists.
Over the past 15 years, the international community has made a great effort to inspire and promote the participation of women and girls in science. Unfortunately, they continue to face barriers that prevent them from fully participating in this discipline. According to a study conducted in 14 countries, the probability of female students completing a bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree in a science-related subject is 18%, 8% and 2%, respectively, while the probability for male students is 37%, 18% and 6%.
Maite Flores - See interview here
PhD with extraordinary prize in 2001 (USC). She is Full Professor of University since 2009, with more than 55 articles in JCR indexed journals on physiological optics, space-time duality, pulse propagation in dispersive media, Gradient Index Optics (GRIN) and fabrication of photonic devices with laser technology. It also participates in the LaserPet R&D Project, an R&D platform for the production of radiotracers for PET medical imaging by laser acceleration.
María García - See interview here
In 1982 the Microscopy Section was created at the University of Murcia and the Rector chose her to start it. This Section was at first only Transmission and Scanning Electron Microscopy but since 1991 conventional optical microscopy of kerosene and also inclusions in methacrylates and freeze-cuts were implemented. He studied anthropology but discovered his true passion in the laboratory. With a good basis in science, he is trained doing specific courses of each technique both in Spain and abroad and so from 1982 until today he is dedicated to Microscopy.
María Rosa Palacín - See interview here
Coordinator of ALISTORE-ERI, Virtual European Research Institute, she is a researcher at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) and vice-director. A chemist by training, she completed her doctoral thesis in solid state chemistry and her research career focuses entirely on the study of materials for batteries, either with research projects of a fundamental or more applied nature.
Noemí Alonso - See interview here
Degree in Biology from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Master in Advanced Microbiology at the University of Barcelona and PhD studies in Microbiology at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Autonomous University of Barcelona). She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Fundación de Docen-cia e Investigación de la MútuaTerrassa, where she participates in different HIV research projects, mainly related to the search for biomarkers predictive of cardiovascular disease in HIV+ patients, in whom this risk is higher than in the normal population.
Susana Marcos - See interview here
Director of Visual Optics and Biophotonics Lab and Research Professor at the IO-CSIC. She holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Salamanca and has pioneered research in new techniques to evaluate the optical properties of ocular optics and the human retina. She is an inventor on 14 patent families, 6 licensed to industry, and is co-founder of 2EyesVision. She has been a postdoctoral researcher for three years in the laboratory of Stephen A. Burns at the Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard University.
