General
What is it?
It is an IAC initiative that aims to make visible the work of women in Astronomy-Astrophysics, while offering girls inspiring models to promote their scientific and technological vocations. It consists of videoconferences with educational centres by women astrophysicists and engineers who work at the IAC and at other institutions present in the Observatories of the Canary Islands, in which they explain their work, talk about their field of research and answer students' questions about the scientific and technological careers, the Universe or the methods we use to get to know it better.
The duration of the videoconferences is 50-60 minutes. The default language is Spanish, although, as the IAC and its Observatories are internationalised centres, it can also be requested in other languages (English, Italian, French).
For whom?
The activity is aimed at Spanish educational centres, from Primary Education until High School and Vocational Training.
When?
The activities will start on February and will continue until June, on the dates and times agreed between the applicant schools and the participating speakers.
How to register?
If you are a teacher at a Spanish school and you are interested in participating in this initiative, register your school using this inscription form and request a videoconference.
If you want to request two videoconferences (maximum per school) for different levels or with different themes, please send two different requests to make it easier for us to manage them.
Registration will be open until the maximum number of videoconferences we can do in a school year is covered. If it is not possible for us to hold the videoconference on the requested date, we will propose a new one.
Who is involved?
Postdoctoral researcher (IAC) Very high energy astrophysics |
Engineer (IAC) Adaptive optics, optical communications, interferometry, high resolution |
Outreach and Education Coordinator (CTA Observatory) |
Researcher (IAC) Small bodies of the Solar System |
 Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres Rodríguez Postdoctoral researcher (IAC) Extragalactic astrophysics |
 Laura Scholz Díaz Predoctoral researcher (IAC) Formation and evolution of galaxies |
 Ángela Hernández Delgado Engineer (IAC) IT, computer science |
Predoctoral researcher (IAC) Astro-seismology, exoplanets |
Researcher (The Open University) Extragalactic astrophysics, X-ray instrumentation |
Researcher and university professor (IAC, ULL) Stellar astrophysics |
 Carme Gallart Researcher (IAC) Formation and evolution of galaxies |
 Mary Barreto Engineer (IAC) Project management |
Postdoctoral researcher (IAC) and telescope operator (Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, FGG) Cosmology, galaxy clusters, galaxies in emission, telescopes |
Postdoctoral researcher (IAC) Black holes, neutron stars, X-rays astrophysics |
 Cecilia Fariña Support Astronomer (Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes) Stellar formation, high mass stars, instrumentation, telescope operation |
Postdoctoral researcher (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Neutrinos, novae accretion and their X-ray and gamma-ray emission, Multimessenger Astrophysics |
 Cristina Ramos Almeida Researcher (IAC) Galaxies |
Astrophysicist and coordinator of education projects (IAC) Galaxies, Astrophysics outreach, robotic telescopes |
ALMA Support astronomer, Deputy head of the ALMA Regional Centre (ARC, ESO) Active galaxies |
 Paula Sola La Serna Engineer (IAC) Development of optical instrumentation applied to astronomical observation |
Postdoctoral researcher (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy) Nearby galaxies |
Researcher (IAC) Astroparticles |
Astronomer (Telescopio Nazionale Galileo) Star clusters, exoplanets |
Astrophysicist and science communicator (IAC) Cosmology |
 Giovanna Speranza Predoctoral researcher (IAC, ULL) Agujeros negros, núcleos activos de galaxias |
Engineer and university lecturer (ULL, IACTec) Renewable energies, Technology and Experimental Science Education |
 Iballa Beatriz Cabello García Postdoctoral researcher (IAC) Solar Physics |
 Alejandra Martín Gálvez Project manager (IAC) R&D&I management |
