Sonia Contera | |
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 Contera speaking in 2019 | |
| Born | 1970 Madrid |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Alma mater | Autonomous University of Madrid Osaka University |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Employer | University of Oxford |
| Title | Professor of Biological Physics |
Sonia Antoranz Contera (born 1970) is a Spanish physicist. She serves as Professor of Biological Physics at the University of Oxford, [1] a senior fellow at the Oxford Martin School, [2] and a senior research fellow at Green Templeton College. [3]
Sonia Antoranz Contera, born 1970, is from Madrid, Spain. [4] She studied for her Licenciatura in physics at the Autonomous University of Madrid. [5] She went on to study in Moscow, Prague and Beijing. [6] She received her PhD from Osaka University in 2000, where her supervisor was Hiroshi Iwasaki. [7] [5]
Having traveled extensively during her education, Contera speaks Spanish, English, Chinese, Czech, Russian, Danish, Japanese, German and French. [4]
Contera's research uses physics and nanotechnology to understand biological problems. [8] [9] She has a special interest in the role of mechanics in biology and designs nanomaterials that mimic biological functions for biomedical applications such as drug delivery [1] and tissue engineering. [10] In 2003, she began working at Oxford. [4] Contera was Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Nanotechnology for Medicine from 2008 to 2013. [11] [12] In 2014–2016, she was a Member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Nanotechnology. [13] [14] In 2017, Contera was appointed Chair of the Scanning Probe Microscopy Section of the Royal Microscopical Society. [15]
Contera's book Nano Comes to Life: How Nanotechnology is transforming medicine and the future of Biology (Princeton University Press) was published December 2019. [16] [17] The book was reviewed by Nature, [18] Nature Physics, [19] the New Scientist, [20] BBC Science Focus [21] and was featured in BBC Radio 4 "Start of the Week". [22] It was published in paperback in 2022, in Chinese by CITIC press and in Japanese by Newton Press.
Contera is also a public speaker on the medical, philosophical and social consequences of the science emerging at the interface of nanotechnology, physics and biology; she has spoken in forums such as the Royal Institution of Great Britain [23] She also writes on communication and the mission of science. [24]
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