Adriana Cristina Serquis (born 7 November 1967) is an Argentine physicist, the president of the

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(CNEA), and principal researcher of the

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(CONICET). In 2014, she received the L'Oréal-UNESCO National Award For Women in Science for her contribution to the rational use of electrical energy.

Biography

Adriana Cristina Serquis was born in

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on 7 November 1967. She took an interest in physics at an early age. She earned a licentiate in physical sciences at the

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of the

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in 1993, and a doctorate in physical sciences at the

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in 2000. From 1994 to 2000, she was a fellow of the

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and CONICET. From 2001 to 2003, she was a post-doctoral researcher at

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in the United States. As CONICET's principal researcher at the CNEA's Bariloche Atomic Center, her line of research was framed in developing advanced techniques for characterizing materials for clean energies, where she studied the synthesis and characterization of superconducting materials and nanometric oxides for high temperature

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s. She also served as an adjunct professor at the Andean Headquarters of the National University of Río Negro, dictating materials for the chemistry program, and as a visiting professor at the Balseiro Institute. She is president of the Argentine Crystallography Association and a member of the administrative council of the . She was named president of the CNEA on 4 June 2021.

Awards

* 2006: Bernardo Houssay Young Researcher Award * 2013: Merit Diploma in Nanotechnology from the

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* 2014: L'Oréal-UNESCO National Award For Women in Science

Selected publications

* "Effect of lattice strain and defects on the superconductivity of MgB2", A Serquis, YT Zhu, EJ Peterson, JY Coulter, DE Peterson, FM Mueller, ''Applied Physics Letters'' 79 (2001), 4399–4401. * "Strongly enhanced current densities in superconducting coated conductors of YBa2Cu3O7–δ+ BaZrO3", JL MacManus-Driscoll, SR Foltyn, QX Jia, H Wang, A Serquis, L Civale, ''Nature Materials'' 3 (2004), 439–443. * "High performance nanostructured IT-SOFC cathodes prepared by novel chemical method", L. Baqué, A. Caneiro, M. S. Moreno, A. Serquis, ''Electroch. Comm.'' 10 (2008) 1905. * "Vertically aligned nanocomposite thin films as a cathode-electrolyte interface layer for thin film solid oxide fuel cells", S.M. Cho, J.S. Yoon, J.H. Kim, Z.X. Bi, A. Serquis, X.H. Zhang, A. Manthiram, and H.Y. Wang, ''Advanced Functional Materials'' 19 (2009) 3868–3873. * "Synthesis and structural characterization of Co-doped lanthanum strontium titanates", F. Napolitano, D. G. Lamas, A. Soldati, A. Serquis, ''IJHE'' 37 (2012) 18302–18309.

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Adriana Serquis
at the Bariloche Atomic Center {{DEFAULTSORT:Serquis, Adriana Cristina 1967 births 21st-century Argentine physicists Argentine nuclear physicists Argentine women physicists Living people Los Alamos National Laboratory personnel National University of Río Negro faculty Nanotechnologists People from Buenos Aires University of Buenos Aires alumni