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A subject you enjoyed to study

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 My favorite subject is biology, since I started studying it in high school I loved everything related to biology; I like it a lot because I can understand how our body works, plants, animals; how cells are responsible for everything to stay well in our body seems very magical to me. This time in college we have only studied cell biology which I find impressive, how we are made up of small cells and that each one has a function in our body. I have always liked science so I was very happy when I started taking biology in high school, the same thing happened to me in college. But for me the biology classes at the university are not so much fun, maybe it is because of the context of the online classes because we are just looking at the screen and listen to the teacher talking, but still I have fun learning, during these two years I have learned many new things and also how some things I knew have been changing, with the advancement of science and research every day something new is discov

An expert in your field that you admire

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Cecilia Hidalgo is a very well known person in science, she was the first woman to receive the national science prize and is currently the director of the FONDAP Center for Molecular Studies of the Cell, at the School of Medicine.  As well as a full professor at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences. I admire her very much because she shows me that a Chilean woman can be very successful in science. Dr.Hidalgo is a biochemist and the first doctor of science at the University of Chile. She did her post-doctorate at the National Institutes of Health and was a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. She returned to Chile at the end of 1983, and has been a professor at the Center for Scientific Studies and the School of Medicine since 1984. Cecilia Hidalgo has more than 70 publications in international journals. Her current work is the study of the molecular mechanisms that are activated by transient increases in intracellular calcium concentration in neurons and in skeletal and cardiac muscle.