Awards for excellence

 

Leadership in Multidisciplinary Research: Aiko Adell, academic from the School of Veterinary Medicine, and Claudio Azat, director of the One Health Institute, both from the Faculty of Life Sciences.

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Claudio Azat described the award as “a tremendous honor, but also a challenge per se because interdisciplinarity is precisely one of the major areas in which we must advance in science at a global level. At the One Health Institute and in the PhD program in Medicine and Conservation, we work in an interdisciplinary way, and we must continue to grow.”

Leadership in Applied Research and Innovation: Loretto Contreras, researcher at CIMARQ of the Faculty of Life Sciences, and Naldy Febré, director of the Health Care Research Institute of the Faculty of Nursing.

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Naldy Febré received the award with great joy, highlighting that it is a collective achievement associated with the development of the Faculty of Nursing. She also emphasized UNAB’s consolidation in the field of research: “In the past, it was difficult to attract new researchers; now they compete to come work at UNAB. In other words, the university is highly regarded as an institution that supports its researchers,” she said.

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Leadership in Collaborative Research: Matías Gómez, director of the Institute of Astrophysics.

Matías Gómez accepted the award with deep gratitude to the team and to everyone who contributed to the creation of the Institute of Astrophysics, especially former director and current researcher Dante Minitti.

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“This award reflects the way we build things, the collaborations we are forming, the environment we have all created, the collaborative spirit we share,” Gómez concluded.

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Women’s Career Achievement in Research: Yorley Duarte, researcher at the Center for Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology of the Faculty of Life Sciences.

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“I am very proud and very happy to be representing a group of women researchers. Although I received the recognition, there are many of us on this same path, in this same journey, so being able to represent them is an honor and truly a great motivation to continue,” said Yorley Duarte.

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Emerging Researchers: Romina Sepúlveda, researcher at the Center for Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology of the Faculty of Life Sciences; Cristóbal Parrado, researcher at the Energy Transformation Center of the Faculty of Engineering; and Osvaldo Carvajal, researcher at the Department of Humanities in the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences.

With this broad outlook on progress and challenges, Andrés Bello University reaffirms its commitment to increasingly collaborative, complex, and socially connected research, and invites the research community to sustain collective efforts and continue advancing toward the consolidation of robust, diverse research that is prepared for the future.