Carmen Heras Sánchez
She is doing a postdoctoral research stay at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, studying the effects of changes in climate on benthic and demersal fish species that inhabit the Gulf of California. She obtained a PhD of Science with a specialization in Biotechnology from the Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora. Her work was focused on bioclimatology, using computational simulation methods. She holds a Master of Science degree with a specialization in Geology, focused on geohydrology, from the University of Sonora (UNISON). She is a graduate in Informatics from the Instituto Tecnológico de Hermosillo. She leads the High Performance Computing Area of the University of Sonora (ACARUS) and is also a lecturer at UNISON. She has produced various manuscripts detailing advances and results from research projects in which she has been involved, and she has engaged in outreach activities through radio, magazines, academic events, and the internet. She has collaborated on various projects related to the use of geographic information systems applied in climatology, oceanography, ecology, biology, and bioclimatology, primarily. She has organized, attended, and participated as a speaker in national and international academic conferences and events related to high-performance computing and the biological and natural sciences. She is a member of the Mexican Joint Research Unit (JRU-MX), the Special Council for E-Infrastructures in Mexico of UEMEXCYT, and the Mexican Network of Supercomputing/CONACYT. She is a candidate for National Researcher in SNI-CONAHCYT.