Dr. Ernesto Gianoli was awarded for an article that focuses on the impact that climate change has generated today.

The academic and researcher of the Department of Biology of the University of La Serena, Dr. Ernesto Gianoli Molla, was awarded the Atenea award, given by the magazine of the same name, for the best scientific work in the research article category.

The article “Ecological and evolutionary impacts of changing climatic variability” is a collaborative work with academics Diego Vázquez (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina), William Morris (Duke University) and Francisco Bozinovic (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) and focuses on the impact that climate change has generated today.

For Dr. Gianoli it is very important that this work has been recognized for its relevance with the delivery of this award. “Receiving the Atenea Prize is an honor because it is a very prestigious award that has rewarded, for many years, both literary creation and scientific research, integrating traditions and perspectives that represent different but complementary facets of human curiosity and the search for excellence,” he expressed.

The director of the magazine Atenea, Dr. Cecilia Rubio, indicated in her congratulatory letter that “in a unanimous judgment, the jury determined that the article constitutes a monograph of high excellence, which highlights and broadly synthesizes current studies on the complex. climate change".

In the publication, the authors asked what ecological and evolutionary effects this increase in climate variability could have on organisms, species, and the interactions between them.

The Atenea Prize has been awarded by the U. de Concepción since 1929 to Chilean and foreign academics who have published the results of their research in the journal and who represent a significant contribution to their area of ​​research.

Written by Tomás Rodríguez, DirCom