Promoting the incorporation, participation and leadership of women in the scientific field is the main objective of the CEDENNA Gender Commission, which was established this week.
These are two ANID projects. The first one is called, "Decontamination of water resources through the use of 3D structures reinforced with allotropes of carbon and nanoparticles: A theoretical-experimental collaboration." The members of the CEDENNA team are Dr. Samuel Baltazar (project director), Javier Rojas and Dr. Pamela Sepúlveda, all from USACH; Dr. Felipe Valencia (Universidad Mayor) and Dr. Alejandra García (CIMAV Institute, Mexico).
Two versions will be held this year by ProNano, the training workshop for secondary school teachers that CEDENNA has traditionally offered once a year. Now we will have a version in the first semester, already scheduled for Thursday, March 2, and another for the second semester of 2023.
The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, CEDENNA, joined four ministries to promote the work of women in Chilean mining and contribute from science to the development of this important sector, through the signing of a commitment letter signed during the ceremony closing ceremony of the National Women and Mining Roundtable.
Innovation and technology transfer are the keys to the sustainable development of the CODELCO company, which seeks to be more efficient and competitive, said Felipe Lagno, CODELCO's Innovation Manager, during his tour of the different CEDENNA laboratories together with Daniela Blanco, Director of Technological Contracts and Alliances of CODELCO.
Dr. Eugenio Coronado, director of the Institute of Molecular Science of the University of Valencia and member of the International Advisory Committee of CEDENNA, today gave a seminar to researchers, academics and students of the center entitled "Functional Molecules in 2D Materials". The activity was carried out in the entity's Research Building and is part of the recent visit to the site.
Chile must get out of its role of spectator in the face of quantum technologies and make greater efforts to venture more decisively into its development, as other countries have done, says Dr. Juan Carlos Retamal, academic and researcher at the Department of Physics from the University of Santiago de Chile, whose work has focused on computing and Quantum Information.
The member of CEDENNA's International Advisory Committee, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry Eugenio Coronado met today with the director of the center, Dr. Dora Altbir Drullinsky, and researchers from different lines of work, to learn about the progress and challenges facing each area. . In the tour of the different laboratories of the center, Dr. Coronado delved into the research being carried out, formulating questions and suggestions.
Dr. Eugenio Vogel Matamala, a CEDENNA researcher and academic at the Universidad de la Frontera, was chosen one of the 100 Senior Leaders 2022, an initiative promoted by Fundación Conecta Mayor that highlights important national and local figures for their contribution to the development of the country.
The board of the Chilean Physics Society (SOCHIFI), in consultation with the Scientific Committee of the XXIII Chilean Physics Symposium, decided to award the Chilean Physics Society Medal to CEDENNA researcher Dr. Patricio Vargas, for "his outstanding contributions both in the field of Physics, as in the progress of SOCHIFI”. The distinction was given to him in a ceremony that took place in the context of the XXIII Chilean Physics Symposium.
