In Good Company

LatinAmericanScience.org, a platform publishing science news about researchers and research from Latin America, and Que Pasa magazine, a leading weekly in Chile, have compiled a list of up-and-coming scientists under the age of 40.  Among those featured are ICTP Junior Associate John Fredy Barrera and Maria Florencia Pascual Winter, who were recipients of the 2014 ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award.

The list highlights the work of 30 researchers who are doing promising work in fields ranging from physics and mathematics to ecology.

Fredy Barrera has been investigating how to use QR codes to transmit encrypted information, while Winter works on the use of light to store and transfer information in a way that could supercharge the processing speed of computers.  Other researchers in the list include Brazilian mathematician Fernando Coda Marques, winner of ICTP's 2012 Ramanujan Prize, and computer scientist Luis von Ahn, who was at ICTP to deliver a talk on "Human Computation" in 2010. Other ICTP visitors in the list include mathematician Rafael Potrie (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay) and physicists Fernando Febres Cordero (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela) and Isabel Pedraza (Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico).

The article is available in English and Spanish versions.

Related link: Que Pasa magazine