Raquel Fernandez
Santiago de Compostela, Mar 20 (EFE).- A week ago, the telecommunications engineer Carmen Misa celebrated her birthday with that “big surprise” that was finding out “by mail” and “by notice from her friends” that she is one of those selected by Forbes magazine in its list of young European talents.
She is also the only Spanish woman to do so from the category of science and health care, where there is another young man from her country, 28-year-old Gonzalo Ladreda from Asturias, co-founder of Pockit Diagnostics in Cambridge, a start-up company Biotechnology for the identification of stroke through a rapid blood test.
In the case of Misa (Vigo, 1996), what she developed and made her a “leader with global impact”, according to Forbes, is the Internet Protocol in the computer network of the largest particle accelerator in the world, the Large Collider of hadrons.
“From the point of view of interconnection, we increasingly have a greater volume of data that needs to be distributed faster,” said the engineer who currently works in Switzerland at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in a telephone interview with EFE. .
This network will facilitate “traffic routing”, focusing it on the “label field” that is associated, instead of on its “destination and origin address” as was being done; and, in the same way, that of “the packages” that are generated in it.
Thus, in short, research centers around the world will have access to data “almost, almost”, in real time.
Dreamy and non-conformist, Misa develops this work in parallel to her most ambitious personal project: to be an astronaut.
This entrepreneur confesses that “the sparkle in her eyes” was already showing when she participated in a European project through the University of Vigo (UVigo) in the integration of the LUME-1 satellite. And now she would like to “be part of Artemis”, the NASA space mission in which in 2025, for the first time, a woman will set foot on the moon.
She has been after her goal for some time, as she applied as a candidate to be an astronaut a couple of years ago, but among the “28,000 applications where there are only five or ten lucky ones” she admits that she was “caught a little young.”
He knows that, despite being older, it is difficult to achieve it, but he does not lose hope because “you always have to dream” and if in the end he only remains in that, in a longing, he jokes, because “planet Earth is very beautiful too ”.
Until the mystery is resolved, this 2023 he plans to continue with his doctorate in Luxembourg and his research in an “international environment” and “unique” such as CERN.
In Switzerland, he claims to have found a “balance” between the professional and the social, although in practice the latter aspect is understood there as “getting up at 6 in the morning and going climbing.”
Accustomed to being a woman of the world for whom international rhythms are “fine”, and it is possible to “see a little what is outside”, she longs, with everything, with the essential condition of dedicating herself to her own, to be able to return to Spain because It is, ditch, “where you live best.”
Like Carmen and Gonzalo, other Spaniards mentioned in the Forbes list are the Catalan entrepreneur Alba Forns, in social impact; Alexia Putellas and Carlos Alcaraz, in sports, and Daniel Olmedo from Madrid, co-founder of Nware, a cloud company that allows games to be played without consoles and, therefore, eliminates the need to buy expensive equipment.