Valentina Abril Melgarejo

@estrellabril16

Colombian Astrophysicist 🇨🇴 passionate about the study of the Universe. Postdoctoral Fellow at @SpaceTelescope @stsci

Joined March 2019

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Valentina Abril Melgarejo @estrellabril16 Jun 1, 2020

Thanks to Science journalist @ligaze for making a great job featuring interesting research from #Globalsouth Scientists. This time he made a compilation at @ForbesScience of my story in Astrophysics and my research at @LAM_Marseille @univamu

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Valentina Abril Melgarejo @estrellabril16 Sep 16, 2024

Una muy triste noticia, sin duda una pérdida invaluable en el campo aeroespacial colombiano. Que tu alma vuele alto hacia las estrellas 💫✨🌃. Tu legado seguirá inspirando a las mentes jóvenes de nuestro país por el desarrollo de las ciencias espaciales en 🇨🇴

National Space Society Colombia @nspacesco Sep 16, 2024

Lamentamos profundamente la sensible pérdida de nuestro insigne colega y cofundador César Augusto Ocampo Rodríguez, ingeniero aeroespacial y hombre de ciencia brillante, que trasciende ahora los límites terrenales para brillar en el infinito 💫

Vas a hacer mucha falta César!

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Valentina Abril Melgarejo @estrellabril16 Jul 6, 2024

At professional level this month has been challenging but also rewarding. I gave three talks about my research on galaxy evolution and one of outreach about ⁦⁦@AstroChia⁩:
SF2A and Café Club LAM (Marseille), CAP (Toulouse) and EAS 2024 (Padova)

Valentina Abril Melgarejo @estrellabril16 May 14, 2024

A week ago I had a wonderful experience as Speaker in the UV Science and instrumentation workshop at @NASAJPL. It was very interesting to discuss the current contributions of UV astronomy in the study of the Universe and the future of space UV Telescopes as HWO, UVEX, …

Valentina Abril Melgarejo @estrellabril16 Mar 17, 2024

Cifras muy preocupantes sobre el número de investigadoras en Colombia

Mónica Monsalve @mariamonic91 Mar 15, 2024

🇨🇴 Las científicas colombianas @andrepazv y @carolina_pardod recolectaron datos sobre quiénes investigan ciencias naturales en Colombia y encontraron una tendencia alarmante
Viene 🧵
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