Mirta Aranguren

Mirta Ines Aranguren (born 18 January 1958) is an Argentine chemist who studies polymers. A 2008 Guggenheim Fellow and 2023 Konex Award winner, she is professor emeritus at the National University of Mar del Plata and has worked as a superior investigator at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). Biography Mirta Ines Aranguren She attended the National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP), where she obtained her BS in 1980, and the University of Minnesota, where she obtained her PhD in 1990; her doctoral dissertation Morphology and Rheology of Silica Reinforced Silicone Rubbers (1990) was supervised by Christopher Macosko.

After studying thermosetting polymers at the Institute of Materials Science and Technology Research on a CONICET Fellowship, she returned to the UNMdP and started working at their Department of Chemical and Food Engineering as an adjunct professor, being promoted to associate professor in 1994 and full professor in 2010. she won the 1996 IFS/King Baudouin Award, the last time it was awarded. In 2008, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, becoming the first Latin American woman to receive one in chemistry; this grant was allocated to research on nanocellulose-reinforced smart polyurethanes. In 2023, she won the Konex Award in Engineering.