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
[edit]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
[edit]Rodríguez is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Mónica Rodríguez", Directory: Researchers, INAOE, retrieved 2022-12-18
- ^ a b 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
- ^ "Mónica Rodriguez (Monica Rodriguez Guillen)", AstroGen, American Astronomical Society, retrieved 2022-12-18
- ^ Mónica Rodríguez at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Astronomy section members (PDF), Mexican Academy of Sciences, 2022, retrieved 2022-12-18
