Silvina Ponce Dawson
Silvina Ponce Dawson | |
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| Nationality | Argentine |
| Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Buenos Aires CONICET Los Alamos National Laboratory University of Maryland |
| Thesis | Un modelo de turbulencia de Alfven en plasmas (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Constantino Ferro Fontán |
Silvina Martha Ponce Dawson is an Argentine physicist specialized in biophysics and a full professor at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), and senior researcher at the National Scientific Research Council (CONICET). In October 2024 she was elected to preside the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) for the period 2025 to 2027. Her main research interests are biological and statistical physics. She is the author of more than 100 articles that have appeared in scientific journals and conference proceedings.