Passion for Science
The award "Passion for Science" recognizes the professional career of scientists and researchers in the different branches of knowledge. In the 2023 edition, the award will be given to Clara Isabel Grima, PhD in mathematics. In previous editions the work of researcher Francisco J. Martínez Mojica (2019), Dr. Margarita del Val (2021) and in the 2022 edition the awardees were Dr. Luis Enjuanes, Dr. Mariano Esteban and Dr. Vicente Larraga.
Clara Isabel Grima (Coria del Río, Seville, 1971) holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Seville, where she is a full professor at the department of Applied Mathematics I. She currently chairs the knowledge dissemination committee of the Spanish Royal Mathematical Society (RSME).
Clara Grima's research has focused on graph theory and computational geometry, where she has provided interesting results such as, for example, her contribution together with other researchers in the identification of a new geometric shape that has been found in the epithelial cells of curved tissues, the escutoids.
Grima combines his work professor and research with the scientificknowledge dissemination of mathematics, with the publication of books, participation in conferences, congresses, scientific events, lectures in schools and institutes, and interventions in various media.
Dr. Grima has received numerous awards and recognitions including the Gold Medal Province of Seville (2022), award Roma (2019) for her work as a popularizer, award Mario Bohoslavsky (2018), award COSCE to the Dissemination of Science (2017), award Bitácoras to the best podcast (2016) and to the Best Blog of Education (2011), or the award PRISMAS to the best website of knowledge dissemination scientific (2013), among many others.