Gloria Platero receives the Margarita Salas Medal for her career in supervising doctoral theses

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Gloria Platero, an ad honorem researcher at the CSIC's Madrid Institute of Materials Science, has been awarded the Margarita Salas Medal for her career in supervising doctoral theses. The prize, which comes with a financial award of 6,000 euros, was presented this Monday, September 7, at the CSIC headquarters in Madrid.

This is an initiative included in the CSIC's HRS4R Strategy, which recognizes the scientific progress achieved through all the doctoral theses carried out at the Council. In addition to these Margarita Salas medals, the medals corresponding to the IV Edition of the CSIC Relevant Doctoral Thesis Awards and the III Edition of the María Moliner Awards for novice thesis supervision were also presented.

Gloria Platero Coello has been an Ad Honorem CSIC researcher since this year. She has received international recognitions such as the Emmy Noether Award from the European Physical Society, she is a full academician of the Royal Academy of Exact Sciences, and she is also vice-president and president of Commission C8 of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). Of all these appointments, however, the one she is most proud of is her work as a thesis supervisor.

The scientist always speaks about this. As she recounted in an interview a few months ago: "I feel very proud, it is what I value most about my work over all these years as a scientist." Platero Coello, who this year has also been featured on an ONCE coupon from a series dedicated to women scientists, always says that she researches at the CSIC and has taught at university... "but that from all of this have emerged researchers who are highly recognized is a source of pride, but the merit is theirs; I participate in their initial training and through my international collaborations."

"They write to me from other European centres to ask if I can send them doctoral students. As I tell you, I enjoy and learn a lot by discussing with them and, moreover, I am still in contact with most of them," she said at the time. Now, upon learning of this latest CSIC award, what moved her most was that it had been her own students who had proposed her: "It has been a very beautiful recognition, it was requested by two of my doctoral students." A recognition in line with a work of dedication, passion and enthusiasm for science that she carries with her wherever she goes.