Cordovan Sandra Díaz to receive the Princess of Asturias Award

Córdoba biologist Sandra Díaz will receive this year the Princess of Asturias Scientific and Technical Research Award for her studies on ecology and the climate crisis

The announcement was made yesterday. Díaz said she was "honored" and surprised by the price that she shares with American Joanne Chory.

"I feel deeply honored by this award, which really surprised me by surprise," said the 57-year-old researcher.

Díaz was born in Bell City and graduated as a biologist at the National University of Córdoba. She is now a teacher at Casa de Trejo and a researcher at Conicet. He participated in the scientific panel against climate change that received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

He also joins the US Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of London.

Díaz studies the functional characteristics of plants and their interaction with society. Study the environmental services that biodiversity provides to people, such as water regulation or air purification.

One of his main contributions has been to badyze the role of biodiversity in the fight against global climate change by sequestering atmospheric carbon.

Díaz emphasized the importance for her that rewards like that of Oviedo recognize the importance of biodiversity.

"I think it's very important that this year's award focuses on global environmental change and how nature, and especially plants, intervenes in this area and makes a fundamental contribution to the population. ", did he declare.

The scientist also participated in the development of a methodological tool to quantify the effects and benefits of plant biodiversity and plant ecology of ecosystems and their use by humans. in the form of fuel, materials, drugs, dyes, food and water protection. .

Díaz and Chory succeed Swedish biologist Svante Pääbo, a specialist in evolutionary genetics, who has focused on the study of the complete genome of Neanderthal man and the first populations of prehistory.

Biochemists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna also won the award in previous years. the chemists Avelino Corma, Mark E. Davis and Galen D. Stucky; physicists Peter Higgs and François Englert and the European Organization for Nuclear Research, as well as neurologists Joseph Altman, Arturo Álvarez-Buylla and Giacomo Rizzolatti.

Last week he received another distinction

He received the award from the Bunge y Born Foundation.

Another more. Last week it was announced that Sandra Díaz would receive the Bunge y Born Foundation Award. It is the most important prize of the country, awarded by an international jury. It will be delivered on August 28th to the CCK.

The amounts It turned out that for this price, he would receive more money than for the distinction of the Spanish kingship.