The Gender Workshop's Feminist Talks aim to promote the lives and work of people from the most diverse areas of activity, with a focus on gender equality and women's issues. This session will be based on the life and research of Isabel Lopes, in conversation with Sílvia Franklin, about women in the most advanced fields of science, namely physics.

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Isabel Lopes is a full professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Coimbra.  Her scientific interests include dark matter detection, radiation physics, medical imaging physics and science communication. She has co-authored around 240 articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, with more than 9500 citations. Between 2018 and 2024, she was Director of the Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics, a National Associated Laboratory. She was also President of the International Radiation Physics Society from 2022 to 2024. She has been an evaluator of scientific projects and applications for grants from the German, Swiss, Spanish and Portuguese Science Foundations.

Sílvia Franklin is a science mediator at the UC Exploratório - Ciência Viva Centre, where she promotes activities in the context of non-formal education. She is mainly dedicated to promoting astronomy, with most of her activity taking place in the planetarium at the UC Exploratório. She studied physics at the University of Coimbra (UC) and became interested in astronomy/astrophysics and the history of physics. She was a tutor at the UC Physics Museum, coordinator of the “Aprender a Brincar” project and a board member of IAPS (International Association of Physics Students).
As part of her activism for gender equality, she was part of the 8 March Network in Coimbra and was part of the team promoting the celebrations of International Women's Day, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the Day Against Dating Violence until 2021.