Guanajuato, Gto., February 10, 2018.- Raising awareness, attracting attention, an important and outstanding issue in societies, is a brief description of what international days are for; And this 11th of February, International Day of women and girls in science, is a propitious opportunity to recognize two students from the University of Guanajuato (UG).

Ana Cristina Rincón Pérez decided to study the degree in Experimental Biology as her mother is a psychologist of the language and from very young age she had to see cases of children with autism and different disorders, "I was very interested in what was happening in their brain Genetically and how they had been affected from the biological side", she said.

Originally from La Piedad, Michoacán, she sought in different universities the educational program that was coupled to what she wanted and was in UG, after the recommendation of a friend, that she decided to become a part of the state university. At the time, Rincón Pérez focuses on neuroscience, because she finds it interesting the functions and all the connections that exist in the human brain.

Last semester, she made a stay at a neuroscience institute in the University of Miñón in Portugal and explained that "we seek to investigate the effect of a drug during pregnancy and its relationship with autism and genetics".

"Long ago as a woman you did not have the opportunity to develop professionally, not only in science but in any other professional area, and now in science there is greater gender equality," said Cristina Rincón.

For the Experimental biology student, UG is giving more support to building spaces that allow access to more students to integrate into science, "there is still much to do but we are on the right track. I say to the students to not limit themselves, they always have the capacity to do what they propose."

Likewise, Lauren Melissa Flor Torres, who is studying a postgraduate in Astrophysics at the University of Guanajuato in an interview mentioned two projects in which she works: the study of the physical characteristics of stars that are orbited by exoplanets (her Ph.D. thesis) and another of dissemination of science in conjunction with his graduate classmates, called "Funny Astronomy".

Flor Torres delved in the first project, which is more academic, since we are using data provided by "El Tigre"-telescope found in UG, derived from the agreement between the University of Hamburg in Germany and UG-where it is intended to gather Data, process them, and then generate articles where specific information about the stars is given.

As for the project of dissemination "funny astronomy", it seeks to bring this branch of science to different spaces and public of the state of Guanajuato, "the idea is to return the astronomy a science that arrives to any corner," he added.

For Flor Torres, her incursion into science allows her to provide elements that allow to break taboos that exist in the society, on the stigmatization of women in different areas since the history on this struggle is of utmost importance.

"When I went to graduate school we were only two masters and today the population of women in this academic degree has increased by 12 percent. Just because they are there helps to open the field of research for other women," she said.

She was grateful for the support of the University of Guanajuato, since she was originally from Colombia, where she studied degree in physics and carried out her thesis on meteorites and from there began her passion for studying the universe, since there is a lot of information to investigate. And it was thanks to the astronomy department that she was able to access one of the scholarships to study a postgraduate course.

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