R&D

Protecting our planet is in good hands, specifically in the hands of Julia de León. This astronomist received the 2025 Mujeres a Seguir Award for her work monitoring the asteroids that threaten the Earth.

Scientist Pilar Mateo is the winner of the 2025 Talento a bordo Mujeres a Seguir Award. A firm believer in science at the service of society who has saved thousands of lives with her innovations.

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.