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During my graduate studies I served for two years and a half as Early Carreer Scientists’ community (ECS) co-chair in the DESI collaboration. This was the first ECS committee, making it a very interesting challenge to build it from scratch. Being chair allowed me to work in many different directions to make DESI a friendly environment for ECS, and provide us with helpful tools for our academic and personal lives.
I was also part of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee and Meetings Committee as ECS liaison. We worked together planning activities centered on ECS needs but open for all the DESI collaboration, such as meetings with DESI leadership, career panels, talks about general wellness (e.g. impostor syndrome, mental health in academia, etc.), and several tutorials.
I have collaborated in the organization of gender minority events, and am interested in keeping working in that direction (as well as ECS centered activities).
I have recently learned about the difficulty that people in the neurodivergent spectrum silently face in academia, and I am currently getting informed and advocating to raise awareness within the collaboration and in my environment.
I have also participated in the organization of two Lya-forest workshops.
For this service done in DESI, together with my contributions in the Ly-α working group, I have been recognized with the Builder Status in the DESI collaboration.
Being Latin-American and working in a public University has helped me to get a wide perspective of the very diverse realities faced in Mexico and in Latin America, which can be adverse for many potentially successful scientists that do not have the resources to do pursue a career. One of these barriers is language. To get my degree in physics, I wrote part of a textbook on Physical Cosmology for the elective course with the same name at the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. This is one of the very few textbooks in Spanish on this subject. I have dedicated my efforts mainly in the sections on Observational Cosmology.
Being aware that science is done by human beings, who have all kinds of backgrounds, I look to make science fun and inclusive environment in all aspects. I have made content in the languages that I speak, prioritizing Spanish and Catalan, but I have also participated in panels of women in science, organized spaces for awareness for the LGBT+ community in scientific environments and in history. I try to share contents for all ages and support contents for deaf, blind, and neurodivergent people.
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