Simulcast on KGRA Radio, YouTube, Facebook & Twitch – Tuesday, January 02, 2024 @ 7:00 PM EDT (-5GMT)
BIO: Beatriz Villarroel is an assistant professor at Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Stockholm University, Stockholm). She finished her PhD in astronomy at Uppsala University in Sweden in 2017. Afterwards, she went to a postdoc at ETH Zurich in Switzerland and later for an international postdoc shared between Nordita (Sweden) and Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (Spain). She is project leader of the VASCO project as well as of the recently launched ExoProbe project. She has been awarded the L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science national prize in Sweden 2021, the L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Rising Talents prize in 2022 (the most prestigious international prize given to early career female scientists) and in 2023 she got Heterodox Academy’s Courage Prize. In 2023 she gave a TEDx talk about why we should search for extraterrestrial artifacts as well as an invited talk at the Sol Foundation’s inaugural symposium at Stanford.
