Dora Altbir (born 21 February 1961) is a Chilean physicist in the field of

nanoscience Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm). At this scale, commonly known as the nanoscale, surface area and quantum mechanical effects become important in describing propertie ...

and

nanotechnology Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm). At this scale, commonly known as the nanoscale, surface area and quantum mechanical effects become important in describing propertie ...

. She was awarded the

National Prize for Exact Sciences (Chile) The National Prize for Exact Sciences () was created in 1992 as one of the replacements for the National Prize for Sciences (Chile), National Prize for Sciences under Law 19169. The other two prizes in this same area are for National Prize for Natu ...

in 2019 for her work in the theoretical study of magnetic

nanostructure A nanostructure is a structure of intermediate size between microscopic and molecular structures. Nanostructural detail is microstructure at nanoscale. In describing nanostructures, it is necessary to differentiate between the number of dimen ...

s. She is currently a professor at the

University of Santiago, Chile The University of Santiago, Chile (Usach) () is one of the oldest public universities in Chile. The institution was born as ''Escuela de Artes y Oficios'' (Spanish: ''School of Arts and Careers'') in 1849 by Ignacy Domeyko, under the government ...

. Altbir is director of the Center for the Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CEDENNA) and director of the ''Dirección de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica'' (DICYT) at University of Santiago, Chile. She is a corresponding member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences.

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