R&D

The 2024 Mujeres a Seguir Awards recognised Ariadna Mechó, PhD in Marine Science and researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, in the Science category for her work preserving the oceans.

She wasn’t sure whether to study medicine or design, but she did know that she wanted to improve other people’s lives. Over time, biomedical engineering turned into her way of bringing together both of her passions and putting her talent at the service of her patients.

Clean, safe, and inexhaustible energy. This is the legacy physicist Eleonora Viezzer, alongside other scientists, dreams of passing on to new generations. Female collaboration will be indispensable for this wish to come true.

In November 2022, Sara García became the first Spanish female of the Astronaut Reserve of the European Space Agency. Today, while she awaits a potential mission, she’s devoted to a more earthly vocation: the fight against cancer.

Changing the message from pessimism to hope. This is what Carlos Duarte, one of the most renowned oceanographers worldwide and winner of the MadBlue Five Oceans Award, asks regarding climate change.

Spain has one of the best teachers in the world. The prestigious Global Teacher Award recently confirmed this. Her name is Mirian Galán. Do you want to learn about her innovative method?