Erika Benítez

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Benítez and the second or maternal family name is Lizaola.

Erika María Benítez Lizaola is a Mexican astronomer whose research involves blazars and active galactic nuclei.^[1][2] She is a professor in the Faculty of Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a researcher in the UNAM Institute of Astronomy.^[3]

Education and career

Benítez studied physics as an undergraduate at UNAM, and continued at UNAM for doctoral study in astronomy, completing her Ph.D. in 1997. Her dissertation, Estudios de Variabilidad de Núcleos Activos de Galaxias, reported the discovery of the host galaxy for blazar OJ 287.^[3]

She has worked as a researcher at the UNAM Institute of Astronomy since 1997.^[4]

Recognition

Benítez is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.^[5]

References

1. Pérez S., Isabel (18 June 2014), "Erika Benítez: creatividad en la astronomía", Ciencia UNAM, retrieved 2022-12-08
2. Valencia Juliao, Hugo (30 March 2018), ¿Qué son los blázares?, CONACyT, archived from the original on 2018-03-30
3. Biographical sketch, UNAM Institute of Astronomy, retrieved 2022-12-08
4. "Erika Benitez", ORCiD, retrieved 2022-12-08
5. Astronomy section members (PDF), Mexican Academy of Sciences, 2022, retrieved 2022-12-07

External links

• Interview with Benítez, Radio UdeG, 14 January 2022
• Erika Benítez publications indexed by Google Scholar