Ligia Gargallo

Ligia Gargallo is a Chilean chemist and university professor of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Career

She works at the University of Tarapacá (Arica) and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, in Santiago. She studied chemical pharmaceutical at the University of Concepción and received a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Liège in Belgium. Her areas of investigation are focused in Polymers and Macromolecules. Her work has aided drug designers.^[1] She is the winner of the Prize L'Oréal-UNESCO to Women in Science 2007 and National Prize of Natural Sciences of Chile in 2014 because of the "pioneering work in the development of the chemistry of polymers and macromolecules".

Publications

• chemical-Physical of Macromolecules in the interface air-water, Macromolecules. Spanish Academic publisher (2012-01-27)
• 265 publications until the 2014.^[2]

Prizes

• 2007, Prize L'Oréal UNESCO to Women in Science
• 2014, National Prize of Natural Sciences of Chile^[3]

References

1. "Five outstanding women scientists receive L'ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science 2007: SCIENCE". unesco.org.
2. "Ligia Gargallo - Publications". researchgate.net.
3. "Doctora Ligia Gargallo recibe Premio Nacional de Ciencias Naturales". www.uc.cl. Retrieved 2015-11-11.

External links

• Pontifical Catholic University of Chile page on Ligia Gargallo (Spanish)