Ligia Gargallo is a Chilean chemist and university professor of the

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (''PUC or UC Chile'') ( es, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) is one of the six Catholic Universities existing in the Chilean university system and one of the two pontifical universities i ...

Career

She works at the

University of Tarapacá University of Tarapacá ( es, Universidad de Tarapacá) is a university in Arica, Chile. It is a derivative university part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. The university publishes '' Revista Chungará'' a journal on anthropology and arch ...

(

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) and at the

, in

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. She received a bachelor's degree in chemical pharmaceutical at the

University of Chile The University of Chile ( es, Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843.

in 1959, degrees in chemistry from

Paris Dauphine University Paris Dauphine University - PSL (french: Université Paris-Dauphine, also known as Paris Dauphine - PSL or Dauphine - PSL) is a public research university based in Paris, France. It is one of the 13 universities formed by the division of the ancie ...

and

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven KU Leuven (or Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. It conducts teaching, research, and services in computer science, engineering, natural sciences, theology, humanities, medicine, l ...

, a doctorate in chemical sciences at the

University of Liège The University of Liège (french: Université de Liège), or ULiège, is a major public university of the French Community of Belgium based in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. Its official language is French. As of 2020, ULiège is ranked in the 301 ...

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in 1972, and a doctorate in chemistry from

. Her areas of investigation are focused in

Polymer A polymer (; Greek '' poly-'', "many" + ''-mer'', "part") is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules called macromolecules, composed of many repeating subunits. Due to their broad spectrum of properties, both synthetic a ...

s and

Macromolecule A macromolecule is a very large molecule important to biophysical processes, such as a protein or nucleic acid. It is composed of thousands of covalently bonded atoms. Many macromolecules are polymers of smaller molecules called monomers. The ...

s. Her work has aided drug designers. She is the winner of the Prize L'Oréal-UNESCO to Women in Science 2007 and Chile's National Prize for Natural Sciences 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.

Prizes

* 2007, Prize L'Oréal UNESCO to Women in Science * 2014, National Prize of Natural Sciences of Chile

References

External links

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile page on Ligia Gargallo (Spanish)
Academic staff of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile University of Liège alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Chilean chemists L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science laureates Living people Chilean women scientists 21st-century women scientists Members of the Chilean Academy of Sciences {{chemist-stub