Astrophysicist
Dr. Paula Jofré
I am an associate professor at the Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile and I am part of the faculty body of the Institute of Astrophysical Studies at the Engineering and Sciences Faculty. Currently I am director of the PhD program in Astrophysics and am lead of the Galactic and stellar astrophysics research group.
Personal Approach
For me, being a scientist means contributing to new knowledge in human history. This implies scientists are in a constant back-and-forth in experimenting with concepts that very few people (or nobody) knows. The more at the front of knowledge we are, the more we touch uncharted territories. While very exciting if something works, this can be frustrating if the experiments fail. The latter usually happens more often.
