Julia Tagüeña

Julia Tagüeña Parga (born 21 October 1948) is a Mexican physicist from the School of Science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Doctor of Science from the University of Oxford.

She was one of the Directors for Scientific Development at the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) from 2013 to 2018, and was General Director of Mexico's Science and Technology Consulting Forum (2018-2020). The main goals of the Forum is to act as an independent advisor of how science and technology should be integrated into Mexican laws (both at the state and federal level.) The Forum also acts an independent advisor to Mexico's Executive power and to Conacyt.

Life and career Tagüeña was born in Frydland, Czechoslovakia. Her father, Manuel Tagüeña, was a physicist, and her mother, Carmen Parga, studied philosophy. She obtained a PhD at Oxford University. Her main field of research are solid-state physics and renewable energies.

For over 25 years Tagüeña has been a research professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

From 2002 to 2005, Tagüeña held the position of the Executive Directorate of the Network for the Popularization of Science and Technology for Latin America and the Caribbean (RedPOP). 2000 – Los elementos de Elementa, museo de ciencias 2003 – Calor y temperature 2003 – Arte y ciencia en Universum: dos caras de una moneda 2005 – Los museos latinoamericanos de ciencia y la equidad 2005 – Lo “glocal”, nueva perspectiva para desarrollar museos de ciencia 2007 – Museología de la ciencia: 15 años de experiencia 2008 – Fuentes renovables de energía y desarrollo sustentable 2013 – La case dorada: fuentes renovables de energía 2013 – Secador solar de alimentos 2015 – Public communication of science in Mexico: Past, present and future of the profession