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Beatriz Villarroel has a doctorate in astronomy from Uppsala University, in Sweden, and works as an Assistant Professor at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm. She completed her International Joint postdoctorate between NORDITA and the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands. She is of Swedish nationality, although she has Spanish ancestry, as one of her grandparents was one of the children who were transferred to the Soviet Union during the Civil War.

 

Throughout her career, she has been awarded several awards for her work, such as the L'Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science award, received in 2022, in the International Rising Talents category, and she has published articles in prestigious scientific journals such as Astronomical Journal, Astrophysical Journal, Nature Physics and Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society. She has also participated as a speaker in one of the popular TEDx Talks, where she boldly and intelligently captivated the audience with her presentation “Why we should look for alien artifacts.”

 

She has recently been appointed member of the Advisory Board of the SOL Foundation, a newly created institute that aims to establish itself as a first-level center for UAP research, to conduct academic, well-funded, and cutting-edge research on the phenomenon and its broad implications. In her inaugural conference, which took place last November at Stanford University, she gave a talk about two projects she leads, VASCO and EXOPROBE, which have brought her recognition and involve the implementation of new and imaginative formulas for the study of the phenomenon.