Teresa Paz Paneque Carreño (born November 15, 1997) is a Spanish-Chilean astronomer and writer.

Biography

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Early years and education

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Paneque was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1997. Her father is a biochemist and her mother a pharmaceutic chemist. When she was five years old, she moved to Glasgow due to her parents' postdoctoral research. At the age of nine, she moved to Chile, and due to her education in Europe, she entered the 6th grade of primary school, two years before the corresponding age; there, she began to be interested by robotics, taking part in the Chile's FIRST Lego League Challenge.[1]

She has a Bachelor's and Master's degree in astronomy, both of the University of Chile, since 2020, she is studying a Doctorate in the same area in the European Southern Observatory (Germany) and the Leiden University (Netherlands).[2]

Work

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She is known in Chile for her book "El Universo Según Carlota" (The Universe According to Carlota), an illustrated book, for kids and young people, in which she explains, with the reality of the Universe, what a shooting star is like.[3][4]

She is a pop scientist in social media since 2019, with more than 440k followers in her TikTok, Instagram and Twitter accounts.[5] Along the social networking, she also has participated in national events carried out by University of Chile,[6] the Chilean Antarctic Institute,[7] and Congreso Futuro.[8] She also is frecuentily part of "A Última Hora" (At The Last Minute), a radio show of Radio Cooperative. In 2021, she created the podcast "Fuera de Órbita" (Out of Orbit), for the radio station TXS Plus.[9]

In January 2022, she made new when she entered in a hard debate in social media, about the veracity and the little evidence on which astrology is based, this caused that she was engrossed in a discussion on Twitter. with a Chilean astrologist and sociologist.[10]

Investigation area

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Her area of investigation is the formation of planets, specifically the study of the chemical conditions in the environments of planetary formation.[11][12] She is co-author of a 2021 scientific publication which describes gravitational instability of Elias 2-27 star, giving evidence about the gravitational instability in Protoplanetary disks.

Awards

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She was awarded by the Physics and Math Sciences Faculty of the University of Chile, for the best post grade thesis of 2021,[13] and for the Fundación Mujeres Bacanas ("Cool Women Foundation"), as the U-30 Cool Woman of 2020 (Bacana Sub-30 de 2020).[14]

Publications

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Books

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  • Paneque, Teresa (2021). El universo según Carlota. Planeta Chilena S.A. ISBN 978-956-9992-81-0. Retrieved 9 January 2022.

References

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  1. ^ "Teresa Paneque". Bacanes (in Spanish). 2020-05-01. Archived from the original on 2022-01-09.
  2. ^ Marton, Amanda (2021-07-22). "Las búsquedas y la ansiedad de la joven astrónoma chilena Teresa Paneque". The Clinic (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  3. ^ Tapia Leiva, Gloria (2021-07-01). "El universo según Carlota: Destacada astrónoma y divulgadora Teresa Paneque presenta su primer libro". Radio Agricultura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  4. ^ Nazal, Sofía (2021-07-18). "Tere Paneque, la chilena estrella de la divulgación científica". Diario Financiero (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  5. ^ Catalán Lira, Fernanda (2021-09-17). "Las redes sociales bajan las ciencias de ese altar ficticio en el que mucha gente las pone". Doble Espacio (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  6. ^ El Mostrador Cultura (2021-08-27). "Maratón de astronomía sobre el sistema solar para niños y niñas". El Mostrador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  7. ^ El Mostrador Cultura (2021-12-04). "INACH realizó transmisión especial por el eclipse total solar". El Mostrador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  8. ^ Senado (23 December 2021). "Congreso Futuro: 4 premios nobel y 80 expertos se tomarán la 11° versión". Senado de la República de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  9. ^ "Fuera de Órbita". SoundCloud (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  10. ^ BioBio Chile (2022-01-02). "El debate 'tuitero' entre Teresa Paneque 'Miau Astral' por roles de la Astronomía y Astrología". Diario El Día (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  11. ^ Paneque Carreño, Teresa Paz (2020). "Studying spiral structures in protoplanetary disks through mylti-wavelength Alma observations". Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  12. ^ ESO. "ESO Scientific Staff in Garching". www.eso.org. Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  13. ^ Comunicaciones FCFM- U. de Chile (30 November 2021). "Escuela de Postgrado distinguió a egresadas y egresados con mejores resultados académicos y tesis". Universidad de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  14. ^ "Conoce a las 5 Mujeres Bacanas Sub 30". Mujeres Bacanas (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-09.
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