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Tejeda Perez, Leslie Karina


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Leslie Tejeda holds a Ph.D. in Food Engineering from Lund University (Sweden, 2013) and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (Bolivia, 2007). In 2024, she received a Recognition for Female Researchers from the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies, as well as the prestigious Bolivian Plurinational Prize in Science, Technology, and Innovation. She has authored over twenty scientific articles and book chapters. Her achievements include international invention patents, such as SP-25-2018 (Andean Community) for a food product, PCT/SE 2017/050790 (Sweden, 2017), and the Bolivian patent SP 00261-2015 (2015). With extensive experience in academic coordination and innovation management, she has led the TYAN Hands-On School postgraduate courses (2023–2025) and coordinated the 2024 TYAN-TWAS/UNESCO scientific workshop. Additionally, she has directed key innovation projects supported by SIDA-UMSA, the Embassy of Sweden, and partners in Colombia and Costa Rica
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TWAS-CAS Young Scientists Award for Frontier Science

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Former CAS and TWAS President Bai Chunli played a central role in creating the award.

The recipients receive USD10,000.

The subject rotates among the following fields of science: physical sciences (including physics and chemistry); astronomy and cosmology; earth sciences; mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Life Sciences. 

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Moraes R., Mónica

Moraes R., Monica

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Moraes R., biologist (PhD, 1996, Aarhus University) is professor and researcher, Herbario Nacional and Instituto de Ecología at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz; member of the Academia de Ciencias de Bolivia. She documented flora and vegetation in the lowlands of Bolivia and is specialist in the study of native palms of Bolivia. Her prizes include 2006 Jubilee Award from the International Foundation for Science; 2016 Procer Pedro Domingo Murillo in the Degree of Civic Honor of the Municipal Council of La Paz; 2017 Grand Master in the Adela Zamudio degree, Chamber of Deputies. She published 86 scientific articles: 21 edited books; 77 chapters; 29 prologues, editorials and other publications; among others. In 2013 she created the Marie Curie award at the Bolivian science academy to recognize Bolivian female scientists abroad. She was the first women scientist elected to be president of the Bolivian science academy (2021-2024). She is member of MESAG for GEO7 of the UNEP (2023-2025). Dr. Moraes is member of the Science Panel for the Amazon.
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