Lydia Sosa Vargas

In this episode, we speak to Lydia Sosa Vargas, a CNRS researcher at Sorbonne University in Paris, France. Originally from Mexico, she obtained her PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK. In 2012, she began her postdoctoral work in Japan at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST-Kansai), developing new liquid crystalline materials for photovoltaic applications. In 2015, she joined the Polymer Chemistry lab at the Paris Institute for Molecular Chemistry (IPCM) at Sorbonne Université as a postdoc before being recruited as a researcher for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2017.