Retired collaborating professor at the “Gleb Wataghin” Institute of Physics (IFGW) at Unicamp, Iris Concepcion Linares de Torriani, was one of the winners of the 7th Carolina Bori Science & Woman Award, presented this Wednesday (11) by the SBPC (Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science). The award ceremony – which was attended by the Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation, Luciana Santos, and was held at the MariAntonia Center of USP, in São Paulo – marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Torriani won the award in the area of Exact and Earth Sciences.
Also honored with the award were Ana Mae Tavares Bastos Barbosa, professor emerita at USP, awarded in the Humanities category, and Luisa Lina Villa, also a professor at USP, in the Biological and Health Sciences category.
“Reinforcing the significance of female participation in the Brazilian science and technology environment, this SBPC award illuminates the brilliant trajectory of female researchers in the areas of Humanities, Exact Sciences, and Biological Sciences,” said the Vice-Rector for Research at Unicamp, Ana Frattini, who participated in the awards ceremony. “Professor Íris Torriani, in her speech, spoke of making her life relevant to others. And so she did, through her important studies in the field of crystallography, her collaboration with Sirius, and, above all, through her significant training of human resources,” she added. “Unicamp and the entire scientific community have much to thank her for, for being such a strong academic woman,” she concluded.
Honorable mentions
The 7th edition of the Carolina Bori Science & Women Award also granted three honorable mentions.
In the Humanities field, Maria Arminda do Nascimento Arruda, a professor at USP, was recognized. In Exact Sciences and Earth Sciences, the honor was granted to Marilia Oliveira Fonseca Goulart, a professor at the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL). In the Biological and Health Sciences field, the honorable mention was awarded to Nísia Verônica Trindade Lima, a professor at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz).
The award
The award is given annually, alternating between two categories – “Women Scientists” and “Girls in Science”. This edition was dedicated to “Women Scientists”, honoring researchers with outstanding careers in three major areas of knowledge: Humanities; Biological and Health Sciences; and Engineering, Exact Sciences and Earth Sciences.
In this edition, the award received 92 valid nominations, submitted by 77 Scientific Societies affiliated with SBPC, a 64% increase compared to the previous edition of this category, held in 2023, which received 56 nominations from 52 societies.
The teacher
Iris Torriani is a physicist (University of Buenos Aires/National University of La Plata, 1965) and holds a doctorate in Physics from the National University of La Plata (1975), with doctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania (Johnson Foundation, Department of Biophysics).
In 1976, he arrived at IFGW, where he consolidated an academic career marked by scientific leadership, the training of people, and the implementation of a strategic infrastructure for the crystallography and materials community in Brazil.
Between 1989 and 2004, he directed the Applied Crystallography and X-ray Laboratory at IFGW, where he worked closely with the National Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS/Cnpem).
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