Deborah Berebichez

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Deborah Berebichez (2015)

Deborah "Debbie" Berebichez Selechnick (born February 13, 1972 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican physicist, data scientist and TV presenter who is committed to popularizing science and promoting education in STEM subjects .

Live and act

Berebichez was born into a family of Jewish immigrants in Mexico City. She studied philosophy at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and then at Brandeis University , where she switched to physics and graduated in 1996. In 1998 she began her master's degree in physics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , which she soon continued at Stanford University , where she received her doctorate in 2004 with a dissertation supervised by George Papanicolaou .

Berebichez then did postdoc research with Robert V. Kohn at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University and with Michael I. Weinstein in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University . Afterwards she was Principal Data Scientist at the New York software and consulting company ThoughtWorks until 2015 . She has been Chief Data Scientist at the data science company METIS since 2015 .

Deborah Berebichez speaks five languages. She is married to the physicist Neer Asherie.

Science communication and STEM training

Inspired by Roopesh Ojha, one of her tutors in Brandeis, who had enabled her to start a scientific career through his private " tutorials " , Berebichez has been committed to popularizing science and promoting education in the MINT- Fans. Their main target group are girls, but also young people in general, especially those from disadvantaged population groups and countries.

Her outreach activities began as a blogger, sometimes under the name The Science Babe, with videos about "The Science of Everyday Life", for which she received the 2013 Association of Latinos in Social Media's Top Latina Tech Blogger Award .

She co- hosted the television series Outrageous Acts of Science (2012-2018, Discovery Channel ) and Humanely Impossible (2011, on National Geographic ).

Awards

She has received numerous awards for her work as a science communicator. In 2008 she was one of the three winners of Oprah Winfrey's first White House Leadership Project . In 2013 she received the Community Service STAR Award from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and Global Ambassador of the Technovation Challenge . The organization Jewish Women International counted her among the "Women to Watch 2015". She is also a John C. Whitehead Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association .

literature

  • Deborah Berebichez: Time-Reversal of Waves for Spatial Focusing of Signals in Enclosures: Targeted Wireless Communications: Spatial Focusing and Temporal Compression of Acoustic Energy in Enclosures. VDM Verlag, Saarbrücken 2009, ISBN 978-3-639-22038-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rodolfo A. Echavarría Solís: Debbie Berebichez. In: El Diario de Vitoria. January 27, 2019, accessed April 21, 2019 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ Laurence Bradford: Dr. Deborah Berebichez On Overcoming Barriers To Achievement For Women In STEM. In: forbes.com. November 15, 2016 (English).
  3. ↑ D. Berebichez: Time-reversal for Temporal Compression and Spatial Focusing of Acoustic Waves in Enclosures. stanford.edu, 2004, accessed April 21, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Emily Wilson: Introducing Metis Chief Data Scientist, Dr. Debbie Berebichez. November 30, 2015, accessed February 6, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Deborah Berebichez: Physics - Financial Risk Analyst. In: Physicists Profiles. APS, accessed on February 6, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Two Physicists Recapture Their Chemistry. In: New York Times. December 2014, accessed on April 21, 2019 .
  7. ^ João Medeiros: Deborah Berebichez: Selling science in stilettos. In: Wired, 11/2011. October 8, 2011, accessed April 21, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Jennifer Viola: Deborah Berebichez - Best Latin @ Tech Blogger 2013. December 3, 2013, accessed April 21, 2019 (English).
  9. ^ Outrageous Acts of Science. imbd.com, accessed April 21, 2019 .
  10. ^ Author profile: Deborah Berebichez. huffpost.com, accessed April 21, 2019 .
  11. ^ Chemistry Is Hot! Meet 3 Science Rock Stars. oprah.com, accessed April 21, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Lauren Dzubow: Tomorrow's Leaders. In: O, The Oprah Magazine. November 2008, accessed April 21, 2019 .
  13. ^ Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Names 2013's Top STEM Contributors. Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, September 10, 2013, accessed April 21, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Technovation Challenge Wins # RevUp2050. PRNewswire, 2013, accessed April 21, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Susan Josephs: Deborah Berebichez. Retrieved April 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Berebichez, Deborah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berebichez Selechnick, Deborah (full name); Berebichez Selechnick, Debbie (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican physicist
DATE OF BIRTH before 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city