Mónica Rodríguez (astrophysicist)

Mónica Rodríguez Guillén is a Spanish astrophysicist and cosmochemist whose research includes the chemical composition of interstellar clouds including H II regions and planetary nebulae. She works in Tonantzintla, Mexico, as a researcher in the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE).[1]

Education and career

Rodríguez is originally from Petrer in Spain, where she was born in 1969.[2]

She studied astrophysics as an undergraduate at the University of La Laguna in Tenerife before traveling to England as an Erasmus scholar at University College London, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1992. She returned to La Laguna for doctoral study in astrophysics, completing her PhD in 1998.[1] Her doctoral dissertation, La abundancia de hierro en regiones H II galácticas [The iron abundance in galactic H II regions], was supervised by Mexican astronomer Guido Münch.[3][4]

She became a researcher at INAOE in 2000.[2]

Recognition

Rodríguez is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.[5]

References

  1. "Mónica Rodríguez", Directory: Researchers, INAOE, retrieved 2022-12-18
  2. De las estrellas al polvo, del polvo a los planetas (PDF) (Talk announcement), La Asociación Amigos de la Astronomía de Elda, 8 January 2015 via Fundación Paurides
  3. "Mónica Rodriguez (Monica Rodriguez Guillen)", AstroGen, American Astronomical Society, retrieved 2022-12-18
  4. Mónica Rodríguez at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Astronomy section members (PDF), Mexican Academy of Sciences, 2022, retrieved 2022-12-18
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