IAEA Staff : Management
Ms. Ana María Cetto, IAEA Deputy Director General, and Head of Department of Technical Cooperation
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Ms. Cetto holds a degree in Physics from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), a Masters Degree in Biophysics of Harvard University, and a Masters and PhD from UNAM.
Before joining the Agency, Ms. Cetto was a research professor at the Institute of Physics, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Head of the Department of Physics at UNAM. Her primary area of research is theoretical physics and she has made widely recognized contributions to the theory of stochastic electrodynamics. Ms. Cetto has been a lecturer in physics for 35 years and is the author of 87 research articles in physics and more than 100 articles and essays on science education, understanding and policy. She is the founding president of LATINDEX, a comprehensive on-line information system for Iberoamerican and Caribbean scientific periodicals.
Ms. Cetto is Secretary-General of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Foundation for Science (IFS). She was a member of the United Nations University, and a member of the Board and President of the Executive Committee of the Pugwash Conferences (Nobel Peace Prize 1995). She was a consultant for the preparation of the World Conference on Science (UNESCO-ICSU, 1999). She is the founding Vice-President of the Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS) and an elected fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences. She was the Coordinator of the project Museum on Light in Mexico City (1996).
Ms. Cetto received the Golden Award of the International League of Humanists in 1998, the Prize for the Development of Physics in Mexico of the Mexican Physical Society in 2000, and the Reconocimiento Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in 2006. In 2003 she was appointed Woman of the Year in Mexico.
Ms. Cetto joined the IAEA as Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Technical Cooperation in January 2003.
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