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Sonia Contera

Sonia Contera

Spanish physicist

Sonia Antoranz Contera (born 1970) is a Spanish physicist. She serves as Professor of Biological Physics at the University of Oxford,[1] a senior fellow at the Oxford Martin School,[2] and a senior research fellow at Green Templeton College.[3]

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Early life and education

Sonia Antoranz Contera, born 1970, is from Madrid, Spain.[4] She studied for her Licenciatura in physics at the Autonomous University of Madrid.[5] She went on to study in Moscow, Prague and Beijing.[6] She received her PhD from Osaka University in 2000, where her supervisor was Hiroshi Iwasaki.[7][5]

Having traveled extensively during her education, Contera speaks Spanish, English, Chinese, Czech, Russian, Danish, Japanese, German and French.[4]

Research and career

Contera's research uses physics and nanotechnology to understand biological problems.[8][9] She has a special interest in the role of mechanics in biology and designs nanomaterials that mimic biological functions for biomedical applications such as drug delivery[1] and tissue engineering.[10] In 2003, she began working at Oxford.[4] Contera was Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Nanotechnology for Medicine from 2008 to 2013.[11][12] In 2014–2016, she was a Member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Nanotechnology.[13][14] In 2017, Contera was appointed Chair of the Scanning Probe Microscopy Section of the Royal Microscopical Society.[15]

Contera's book Nano Comes to Life: How Nanotechnology is transforming medicine and the future of Biology (Princeton University Press) was published December 2019.[16][17] The book was reviewed by Nature,[18] Nature Physics,[19] the New Scientist,[20] BBC Science Focus[21] and was featured in BBC Radio 4 "Start of the Week".[22] It was published in paperback in 2022, in Chinese by CITIC press and in Japanese by Newton Press.

Contera is also a public speaker on the medical, philosophical and social consequences of the science emerging at the interface of nanotechnology, physics and biology; she has spoken in forums such as the Royal Institution of Great Britain[23] She also writes on communication and the mission of science.[24]

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    Paniagua, Esther (2016-07-19). "Sonia es profesora en Oxford: "Eliminaría los exámenes en primaria"". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-05-25.
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    CONTERA, SONIA. (2019). NANO COMES TO LIFE : how nanotechnology is transforming medicine and the future of biology. [S.l.]: PRINCETON UNIV PRESS. ISBN 978-0691168807. OCLC 1099683369.
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    Contera, Sonia (May 2021). "Communication is central to the mission of science". Nature Reviews Materials. 6 (5): 377–378. doi:10.1038/s41578-021-00316-w. ISSN 2058-8437. PMC 8043085. PMID 33868716.
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