Natalia Restrepo Escobar is a Colombian biological engineer, who obtained a doctorate in biotechnology from the National University of Colombia, Medellín. She received a regional L'Oréal-Unesco Women in Science Award in 2017 and the Young Investigator Prize awarded by the Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation COLCIENCIAS in 2011.
Early life Restrepo graduated as a Biological Engineer from the National University of Colombia, Medellín branch in 2010. En 2013 she enrolled on a Masters in Biological Sciences in the same institution, where she continued studying for a Doctorate in Biotecnology.
Career At the National University of Colombia she worked on different research projects in the field of population genetics and biodiversity, in the animal biotechnology investigation group. Her areas of expertise are centred on geometric morphometry and population genetics.
In January 2011, Restrepo received the Prize for Young Investigators awarded by the National University of Colombia and by COLCIENCIAS, the Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation. In 2017 she received a regional L'Oréal-Unesco Women in Science Award in recognition for her doctoral thesis on molecular markers for three species of catfish native to Colombia with environmental protections, found in the Cauca River. She has also published various articles in specialised scientific journals in the United Kingdom and Central America.
Prizes and awards
2011 - Young Investigator Prize, Universidad Nacional de Colombia y Colciencias. 2017 - L'Oréal- Unesco Regional Prize for Women in Science Central America and Andean Region (Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Peru)
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