Wanda DÍAZ MERCED

Wanda Díaz Merced is from Gurabo Puerto Rico. Wanda completed a PhD degree at the University of Glasgow in Scotland writing an interdisciplanary thesis on the use of audio to analyze astrophysics plasmas. Wanda works with different astro physics and astroparticle and gravitational wave phenomena using sound. Wanda collaborates with the katholieke universiteit Leuven , University of Athens , The Polish Academy of Sciences, The Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory in Poland and the European Gravitational Observatory among others. Wanda Collaborates with the Royal Academy of Science International Trust program Science in Braille coordinating the magazine Disc for diversity, inclusion, science and culture.

Wanda has done speeches at the United Nations Vienna, New York , the office of Outer space affairs advocating for peoples with disabilities to have access to the same amount and quality of information a person with no disabilities has. Her sonification techniques leading the main a new research program at a Polish academy of sciences and the main subject of the space science endeavor meeting organized by the French Embassy in the United Kingdom.

Wanda performs research on cosmology, gravitational waves and astroparticles. In her research she uses sound and research other multisensorial perception methods to augment the data simultaneously avoiding linearization and standardization. Her methods have proven to be effective to find anisotropies in the information that otherwise would have been ignored.

Due to her her on equity in science and her innovative methodologies, Wanda has been mentioned by the BBC in the list of the 7 trailblazer women in science together with Marie Curie. Is an honorary ambassador of the Soka University of America in Japan, the senate of Puerto Rico recognized her recently , the Gurabo Municipality dedicated the 100 years of the Matias Gonzalez Garcia School to Wanda and She received the estrella Luike award and was recognized as a Science Fellow by the American Astronomical Society. Wanda is currently affiliated to the Universidad del Sagrado Corazon in Puerto Rico.

Events

International Astronautical Congress 2024

14-18 October 2024

Milan, Italy

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