Clara Grima

Invitado de Honor

(Coria del Río, Seville, 1971)

She has a PhD in Mathematics and teaches at the University of Seville. She combines her teaching and research work with intense scientific outreach in various written media and radio and television programs, always with a focus on mathematics.

Her books include Hasta el infinito y más allá, ¡Que las matemáticas te acompañen!, Las matemáticas vigilan tu salud, En busca del grafo perdido and Mati y los matemonstruos. Her books have been translated into French, Italian, Czech, Hungarian, Korean and Chinese.

She is the host of the program “Una matemática viene a verte” on Radio Television Española (RTVE).

She has won the Bitácoras Award for best education blog (2011), the 20Blogs Award for the best blog, the Prismas Award for the best science information website (2013), the special Prismas Jury Award (2018) for her outreach work, the COSCE Award for Science Outreach (2017), the Roma Award in the STEM woman category (2019) and the Passion for Science Award (2023) for her work as a communicator.

She was the first woman to give the opening address at the Granada Book Fair (2016) and was named Coriana of the year (her native village) in 2018. She has also received the Gold Medal from the City of Seville (2021) and the Gold Medal from the Province of Seville (2022). She also received the 2022 Meridiana Equality Award from the Regional Government of Andalusia.

She was the second Spanish woman mathematician in history to be invited to speak at the International Mathematical Congress, in 2022.

She has been on the jury of the Princess of Asturias Awards for Technical and Scientific Research since 2018.

She was included in the Forbes list of “the 22 people who will change 2022.”

Other activities involving the participant:

Crossroads. Mathematics, technology and literature