(Diego Portales University, Chile): Her research interests focus on uncovering the history of the Milky Way through detailed mapping of stellar chemical abundances. She is an expert in stellar spectroscopy and in the determination of chemical abundances in stars. She has deep expertise in analyzing data from spectroscopic surveys, with an emphasis on stellar populations in the Galactic disk and halo. She has been a pioneer in studies on the phylogenetics of galaxies, leading the Millennium Nucleus ERIS and being recognized in 2019 as one of the TIME100 Next.
