María-Paz Zorzano is a Doctor in Physical Sciences, specialized in Theoretical Physics from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her area of research is planetary physics; she works in the Department of Planetology and Habitability of the Centro de Astrobiología. She completed her doctoral thesis at the DESY, a high-energy accelerator laboratory in Hamburg (Germany) and obtained a PhD in Physical Sciences in 1999. She later worked at the CERN particle accelerator in Geneva (Switzerland). She has been a research staff at the Astrobiology Center since 2001. María-Paz participates in the design and operation of instrumentation for the space exploration of Earth, Mars and the Moon, working with space agencies such as NASA, ESA, IKI / Roscosmos, in missions devoted to the exploration of Mars such as Curiosity and ExoMars. She is a member of the COSPAR Planetary Protection Panel (Committee for Space Research). Her research focuses on the role of the atmosphere in habitability, in the water cycle and in ultraviolet radiation.

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