Carmen Torras and Elisa Lorenzo Garcia received the Prize for Pioneer Women in the Physical, Chemical and Mathematical Sciences of the Tatiana Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno Foundation.

The awards ceremony  took place on June 4 2019 at the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.In this fourth edition the prize was awarded to Carme Torras (Barcelona, 1956) and for the first time the Young Modality of the Prize was awarded: the recipient was Elisa Lorenzo García (Madrid, 1987).

Carmen Torras is a specialist in artificial intelligence and robotics, she opened a novel line of research on the temporal processing of motor signals.

Elisa Lorenzo García is working at the frontier of number theory and arithmetic geometry, with applications in cryptography. Click here to read an interview with Elisa Lorenzo García on the European Platform of Women Scientists.