Science and Technology
in feminine "OUTSTANDING WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF..."
Beatriz Morales-Nin Madrid, Spain (1951) PhD in Biology, expert in fish and sustainability. Her career can be summarized in three words: curiosity, tenacity and courage She graduated in Biology from the University of Barcelona where she obtained her PhD in 1984 while being a mother of three children. She developed sclerochronology, a pioneering technique at the time. These works enabled her to obtain an André Mayer scholarship from the FAO at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (1988-1989). Upon returning to the Institute of Marine Sciences (CSIC) as a Head scientist in 1986, she moved to Mallorca to the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (CSIC/UIB) in 1990. During her career, she has studied fish communities across the world and she has published around 200 papers and supervised 15 Doctoral Theses. She was Chief Scientist on the first Antarctic expedition of the BIO Hespérides in 1991, and she participated in 7 more Antarctic campaigns, among other oceanographic campaigns. She was the first female in charge of the Marine Science and Technology National Plan, and was also the coordinator of ERA-Nets for the Ministry of Science and Technology (2002-2008). From 2008 to 2016 she has been the director of the IMEDEA.
Marta Jordi Taltavull Maó, Balearic Islands, Spain (1980) Historian of science and coordinator of the Minorcan Institute of Studies, which promotes Minorca as a space for generating, transferring, and exchanging knowledge Her research experience began in the Department of Fundamental Physics at the University of Barcelona, in the field of solid-state physics. However, most of her career has been focused on the history of physics, with the aim of considering science as a way to understand the world, as well as a social and historical phenomenon. She wrote her doctoral thesis on history of quantum physics at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Later she did scientific research and was a lecturer of History of phisics and mathematics at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. Currently she is the scientific coordinator of the Minorcan Institute of Studies. There she seeks to promote the promote the research about, from and for Minorca, and to make it available to society.
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