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The Argentine physicist Karen Hallberg, graduate and professor at the free public institute Balseiro, is one of five scientists awarded by the International Prize L'Oréal-Unesco for Women in Science. The prize, which selects a scientist from each region of the world, was announced yesterday and will be awarded on March 15 in Paris. The director of the institute, physics doctor Carlos Balseiro, said that "the news of the award presented to Dr. Karen Hallberg is an acknowledgment of which we are proud.Karen has been trained in Balseiro with full scholarships and has made a large part of her career in our clbadrooms and laboratories, and today she is a distinguished researcher and an active teacher of the Institute ". This 21-year award, aimed at raising public awareness of the challenges women face in scientific research, has rewarded the five scientists "for the excellence of their research in the following fields: materials science, mathematics and computer science ". Hallberg, a researcher at Conicet, works with the quantum properties of condensed matter in the development and application of computational methods for the electronic and magnetic properties of nanoscale materials and systems.