Visibles-CNB is a series of conferences that aims to make visible the work of women who are leaders in different professional fields.
With this cycle - which we inaugurate on 2021 February 11 (11F), coinciding with the "International Day of Women and Girls in Science" - we will show the work of women who have achieved success despite inequalities and gender biases that still exist in the labor and social field. By making the work of these great women visible, we want to provide young scientists with women references, to help correct the imbalance in the research career that exists in the CSIC.
We inaugurate this cycle with a conference by Concepción A. Monje Micharet, Concha Monje, Electronics Engineer, professor and researcher in ‘Humanoid Robotics and Systems Control’ at RoboticsLab of the Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M).
Concha Monje, has been awarded the ‘Woman and Technology 2018 award from the Orange Foundation’, and the ‘Best Contemporary Scientist 2017’ Prize, awarded by the popular science magazine QUO in collaboration with CSIC. She has worked in research centers such as the Center for Self-Organizing Intelligent Systems (CSOIS, USA) and the Institut für Robotik und Mechatronik (DLR, Germany), which has allowed her to spread the research work of she. In 2010 she received the Best Scientific Publication Award from Control Engineering Practice magazine and published a book entitled “Fractional-order Systems and Controls. Fundamentals and Applications ”, by Editorial Springer, highly cited in the international scientific community. She is currently the Director of the UC3M Center for Aeronautical Training and Services (CATS).
In addition, she has worked as a scientific advisor for the film ‘Automata’, produced by and starring Antonio Banderas. Her passion for her music (she plays the drums) has led her to work with the singer Rosana in the English adaptation of her song “Good morning, world”. Concha is also a scientist very committed to the visibility of the role of women in science and technology, university teaching and scientific dissemination, collaborating in the science section of the radio program "Julia en la Onda", with Julia Otero on Onda Cero, or participating in the Movistar + series "Pioneras".