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Michele Catanzaro

Women at the foot of science

Exhibition

8 March 2010

These are the 16 judges of the Catalan science; experts in anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, biology, biomedicine, physics, chemistry and mathematics leading the working groups at universities, research centres and companies in the Principality. Until March 10, their profiles will be exhibited at the Cultural Centre "Les Corts” of Barcelona (Dolors Masferrer, 33-35). Afterwards one will be able to visit it virtually at: http://16cientifiquescatalanes.blogspot.com/

Mercè Piqueras and Raul Toran, curators of this exhibition led by the Catalan Association of Scientific Communication, explained that the intent of the 16 panels is no more than to highlight the growing and fundamental presence of women in scientific advances happening in Catalonia.
Marta Prevosti Monclús (58) is an archaeologist and works at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology. Her knowledge of Roman culture and agricultural settlements have led her to co-direct the project "Ager Tarraconensis: ancient archaeological landscape east of the river Francolí", the international project "Ad vilam, from the Rhone to the Ebro", as well as studying the Roman villa of Horta Ferrerons (Premià de Mar).

Another archaeologist, Assumpció Vila Mitja (62), directs the Laboratory of Archaeology “Milà i Fontanals", she works with the CSIC and is secretary general of the Association of Women Researchers and Technologists of Catalonia (AMIT-CAT). Her research focuses on the origins of inequality and discrimination. She supervises field work carried out in various parts of America, from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska, and she also teaches. Her other passions are the sea, photography and literature.

Anna Veiga (54) heads the bank's Stem Cell Centre for Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona and the service of Reproductive Medicine of the University Institute Dexeus. She also chairs the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology. She also holds the Cross of Saint George and the Medal "Narcís Monturiol" for scientific and technological merit, amongst other awards.

Lourdes Vega Fernandez (44) was born in Villanueva del Fresno (Badajoz), a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Seville and currently works at the company Metal Carbides. She has served as professor of chemical engineering at the University "Rovira i Virgili" of Tarragona and her work in molecular modelling has received international recognition.

Conxita Solans Mars (63) is an expert in colloid and interfacial chemistry. She is co-editor of a reference book in this sector: Industrial Applications of Microemulsions. Her effort earned her the prize "Jordi Camp" for the scientific and technical research, she has headed the European Society of Colloids and Interfaces and her other hobbies are reading, travelling, walking and cooking.

Sílvia Simon Rabasseda (41) works at the Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Girona. She also directs the Chair of Scientific Culture and Digital Communication. In love with the possibilities that information technology offers to the scientific field, this researcher coordinates the European Night of Research and participates in various projects of Web 2.0. She is married with four children and her favourite pastime is hiking around the geography of Girona.
The Physics Teresa Puig Molina (43) leads the group of superconducting materials and nanostructuring on a large scale in the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona. She belongs to the executive committee of the European Society for Applied Superconductivity and has extensive experience in organizing conferences and meetings of this specialty. Her work has won her the prize "Duran Farrell" for technological research and the "Novare-Endesa" for research and development into energy. She likes music and plays the piano.

Besides being an applied dansaire in the Sardana groups, Marta Orive i Camprubí (50) is a specialist in microbiology applied to beer. Since 2001 she heads the biology laboratory of the Directorate of Innovation and Development of Mahou-San Miguel (MSM). Her job is to select yeasts for rapid fermentation. She is a specialist in the biology of Legionella pneumophila and different varieties of malting barley. She is also vice-chairman of the committee of microbiological analysis of the European Convention of Brewers.
Although originally from Rosario (Argentina), the anthropologist Adriana Kaplan Marcusán (54) directs the Chair of Knowledge Transfer at the Research Park UAB-Santander. She has studied in depth the migrations in sub-Saharan Africa and is an activist against harmful traditional practices (removal of clitoris) and in favour of social integration. She has carried out field work in The Gambia, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. She is a founding member of the NGO Wassu Gambia Kafo and has made two documentaries about her experience in the African region.

The astronomer Carme Jordi i Nebot (52) holds a doctorate in physics and is a professor in the Department of Astronomy and Meteorology of the University of Barcelona (UB). She has participated in a space mission and has observed the sky dome from telescopes in Hawaii, Chile, Mexico and France. She participates in the Gaia project of the European Space Agency, a satellite designed to measure positions, velocities and physical properties of billions of stars involved in the formation of the Milky Way. She like to sky.
Originally from Santander, Mara Dierssen Sotos (39) leads the genetics behavioural group at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona. Currently located at the University "Pompeu Fabra", this neuroscientist also sings and has released two albums; she has also collaborated in organizing benefit concerts at the Culture Council of the City of Barcelona.

Estrada Marta Miyares (64) is an oceanographer linked to the CSIC and the Ocean Science Institute in Barcelona. She specializes in the study of marine phytoplankton and the interactions between physics and biology in the pelagic ecosystem. She is Spain's representative in the Scientific Committee for Oceanographic Research, academic member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona, a member of the Institute of Catalan Studies and receiver of the Cross of Saint George and of the medal "Narcís Monturiol”.

Industrial Engineering and PhD in computer science, Alicia Casals Gelpí (55) works at the University of Catalonia (UPC) by applying intelligent robotics to solve clinical challenges. Married with two children, this researcher from Barcelona has also received the medal "Monturiol Narcis" and the Barcelona City Award for patenting different automation systems for helping the disabled and for surgical manoeuvres.

Isabel Cacho Lascorz (41) is a paleoclimatologists. Originally from Barbastro, she is linked to the Group of Marine Geosciences of the Faculty of Geology of the University of Barcelona (UB) and is an expert in the study of climate change. She has worked in England, Germany and the United States. She is part of the Advisory Council for Sustainable Development of the Generalitat of Catalonia and has travelled on board oceanographic research vessels in remote parts of the planet. Her other hobbies are films and mountaineering.
Lina Badimón (57) directs the Cardiovascular Research Centre of Barcelona, which belongs both to the CSIC and the Catalan Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences. She has worked also at Mount Sinai Medical Centre in New York (United States). She is known as world authority on atherosclerosis, Badimon also has received the medal “Monturiol Narcis "and the Cross of Saint George. In addition to biomedicine, her other two passions are poetry and opera.

The mathematician Pilar Bayer Isanta (64) She has carried out research and taught at the Universities of Barcelona, the Autonomous University, Regensburg (Germany) and Santander (Spain). She is currently professor of algebra at the University of Barcelona. She is a specialist in number theory, her results are about diophantine equation, automorphic forms and Shimura curves. She is also a licenced piano teacher of the Music Conservatory in Barcelona. She has also received the 'Narcís Monturiol' medal and has a son.

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