Once again this year, IMDEA Energy’s researchers have organised several activities and workshops aimed at students in order to raise awareness of their work and highlight the names of well-known and less famous women scientists to students.

To this end, we welcomed more than 60 students from the 3rd year of ESO at the IES Velázquez de Móstoles Secondary School.

First of all, there was a contextual presentation in which Alba Fombona, a researcher at the Electrochemical Processes Unit, presented the latest data on female representation in the science sector, as well as the gender gap in some studies and professions in the STEM branches.

After this, the different groups got to know several scientific facilities from the centre’s researchers and participated in scientific workshops such as DNA extraction, or interactive games in which they could demonstrate their knowledge of the subject.