It also gave me an early view of how international and collaborative science is. It gave me the opportunity to learn about theoretical models and astrochemistry while I was finishing my master thesis in Chile, and this motivated me to apply to a doctorate position in Europe. How was your experience as an MSCA researcher?īeing an MSCA researcher from an early point in my career was fundamental for my current position. We are not better than our male colleagues, just equally necessary and fundamental for the development of science with a global perspective. Personally, having women mentor me in my graduate studies (master and doctorate) has been fundamental to feel like there is a space for people like me in the field. The optimal way to do good scientific work is by having groups that represent the global population, and women should be equivalent to half the field. Science in any field tries to solve questions for all of humanity by facing problems from multiple points of views.
Women are half of the world’s population. Why is the involvement of women like yourself crucial to advance research in your field? I believe my success shows that science is a popular topic and that access to scientific content should be present on every platform.
I believe my success, both on social media and through the two (soon to be three) published children’s books on astronomy, shows that science is a popular topic and that access to scientific content should be present on every platform. I never dreamt that two years later I would have over 900.000 followers! I started doing this in a more dedicated way in 2021, through multiple platforms. The public liked the way I explained, so I decided to make some social media accounts and start filming myself in short videos to talk about various astronomy topics. The media was heavily covering the event and as a master student in astronomy at one of the main universities I got a couple of interviews that other people couldn’t attend. At that time, I was living in Chile and there was a total solar eclipse in the north of the country. I entered the world of science communication unintentionally in 2019.
When and how you decided to embark on this journey and why do you think it has been so successful? Through your social media accounts you make people travel through the wonders of astronomy. I loved the challenge of using maths as a language to describe stars and far-away planets, which we could never reach or experiment with. In simple terms, I try to understand how the chemical reservoir for new-born planets is distributed around their young host stars. I loved the challenge of using maths as a language to describe stars and far-away planets, which we could never reach or experiment with.Ĭurrently I focus on the chemistry around planet-forming enviroments. Physics quickly became one of my favorite subjects in school, and within physics I thought that astronomy was very interesting, as it was an area of study where people had to be very ingenious to find answers. I wasn’t much of a hands-on person, but loved to make things “make sense”.
I was always fascinated by understanding everything around me, from a very theoretical point of view. Could you tell us a little about your background? What attracted you to a career in astronomy?
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