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The ESA carried out a new selection of 17 people, 8 women, for its astronaut corps in 2022. NASA's Artemis program has 18 astronauts, 9 of whom are also women. It seems that the field of astronautics is finally achieving the gender parity that women have fought for since the early days of the space age. Those who today manage to fulfill their dream of traveling in space are in debt with the pioneers who had to face all kinds of obstacles, failing at first, but remaining constant, generation after generation, until they achieved its gradual incorporation into the different bodies of astronauts. In this lecture we will meet several of these pioneers, we will learn about their struggles, hopes and anecdotes lived in a field that for decades was exclusively male.
Brief CV
Amelia Ortiz Gil holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Valencia (1992). She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher in research centres in Germany, the United States, Australia and Italy. Her research fields include astronomical image processing, the intergalactic medium, and galaxy clusters. She is currently an astronomer at the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Valencia and her professional activity focuses on the dissemination of Astronomy to all types of public, including in particular people with functional diversity. She is a member of the "Women and Astronomy" commission of the Spanish Astronomy Society and of the "Women in Astronomy" work group of the International Astronomical Union, an organisation in which she has also been coordinator of the Equity and Inclusion group. She has been the representative in Spain of the Astronomy Dissemination Office of the International Astronomical Union until 2021. She has received the Jaume Primer award from Alberic city hall in the science category (2018), the award to the dissemination of the planetary sciences of the European Planetary Society "Europlanet" for the development of tactile models of planets for blind people (2019) and the X José María Savirón Award for the Trajectory in the Dissemination of Science (2022).
More information
- Presentation of the book AstronautA. Pioneras de la exploración espacial at the Princep Felip Sciencie Museum (9(02/2023)
- Bloc d'Amelia Ortiz
- Observatori Astronòmic de la Universitat de València
- Parlem d'Astrologia
- Que les dones no volen ser astronautes?
- The astronomer Amelia Ortiz and the biotechnologist Daniel Pellicer are awarded for their trajectories in scientific dissemination
Social networks
- @aogaog2
- @ObservatoriUV
- @CdCienciaUV
- @MednightGTS
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Stimulating scientific vocations is a project of the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit that has co-funding from the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology and the Ministry of Science and Innovation.
