Researcher Elisabet Prats heads the Chemistry section of the television program Órbita Laika

The science behind counterfeiting, amusement parks or the Titanic... the popular science program Órbita Laika is broadcast every Tuesday on La 2 of Televisión Española (RTVE) and, in its tenth season, the researcher Elisabet Prats is in charge of the Chemistry section.

Prats is a researcher of the CIBER-BBN consortium within the Biomedical Applications Group (GAB) of the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona. In science, Prats is specialized in the characterization of graphene transistors for neural applications and is part of large European projects, such as the Graphene Flagship. She holds a degree in Chemistry from the University of Barcelona and developed her doctoral thesis at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine at the Barcelona Science Park (IRB-PCB). She has made stays at the University of Lyon I Claude Bernard, at the Institute of Analytical Sciences and at the University of Chicago, in the Department of Organic Chemistry and the Howard Hughes Medical Hospital.

She has also a long career doing outreach and science popularization, as a member of the BigVan Ciencia group and collaborating in different initiatives to transfer her passion for science to society. She has participated in IMB-CNM projects with the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and has given talks and workshops for the social promotion of science. Recently, the popularizer Núria Salán included her in the Enciclopèdia de Dones STEAM.

In the tenth season of Órbita Laika, the famous science popularization space in the prime-time of Televisión Española 2 presented by mathematician Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón, Eli participates weekly with his desire to transmit chemistry and spread scientific knowledge.

Congratulations, Eli!