Deborah Berebichez

Deborah Berebichez
Ethnicity Mexican
Occupation Physicist
Website
www.thesciencebabe.com//

Deborah Berebichez is a Mexican physicist, educator and entrepreneur who dedicates her career to promoting education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. She was the first Mexican woman to graduate with a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University.[1] She has developed models for cellular wave transmission which are in the process of being patented. Popularly known as "The Science Babe", she stars in mainstream television and radio segments where she explains concepts in physics in everyday life.[1]

Education

Deborah Berebichez first attended university in Mexico. She later transferred to Brandeis University and graduated with a double-major in physics and philosophy. For her senior honors thesis at Brandeis, Berebichez wrote about the concept of time in the work of the French existentialist philosopher Emmanuel Levinas.[2] She received her Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University in 2004 and completed her dissertation on the subject of waves and acoustic signals.[3]

Career

Dr. Berebichez has written scholarly articles on the subject of altering the structural design of optical, mechanical and electrical systems in order to prevent signal transmission loss due to wave scattering.[4] She is a member of the American Physical Society.[3]

Since 2008, she has worked in Wall Street as an equity risk analyst for MSCI Barra.[3]

Since 2012, Berebichez has been featured in the television show "You Have Been Warned" (a.k.a. "Outrageous Acts of Science") on The Science Channel.[5] For her "Science Babe" web video project, she explains everyday scientific phenomena and principles of physics in plain language, such as "The Physics of High Heels".[6]

Volunteer Work

She is the Global Ambassador for the Technovation Challenge,[7] an international educational competition sponsored by technology non-profit Iridescent[8] that promotes the programming of mobile applications by girls and young women all across the globe.[9][10]

Personal life

Deborah Berebichez is married to physicist Neer Asherie.[11]

External video
“Deborah Berebichez - A Non-Stop Skeptic in a Believer's World”, May 22, 2013, NECSS
"Debbie Berebichez - How Physics Gains Insight from Interconnectivity", 11 November 2010, TEDxEast
“Dr. Deborah Berebichez - Iridescent", November 2, 2012

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Science Babe". Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Berebichez, Deborah (1996). Time in the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. Waltham, Mass: Brandeis University. p. 39.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Deborah Berebichez Curriculum VItae" (PDF). Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  4. ↑ Heider, P; Berebichez, D; Kohn, R.V.; Weinstein, M.I. (20 Feb 2008). "Optimization of scattering resonances". Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (Springer-Verlag) 36 (5): 443–456. doi:10.1007/s00158-007-0201-8. ISSN 1615-1488.
  5. ↑ "Debbie Berebichez IMDB". IMDB. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "The Science Babe - Video". The Science Babe. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "Technovation". Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Iridescent". Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  9. ↑ "Debbie Berebichez and Graciela Garcia discuss the importance of the Technovation Challenge". The Feast. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  10. ↑ Richinick, Michele (30 September 2013). "http://www.msnbc.com/afternoon-mojoe/tech-women-school-next-gen". Afternoon MoJoe. MSNBC. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  11. ↑ Hodge, Channon (24 December 2014). "Two Physicists Recapture Their Chemistry". Vows - The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 24 March 2015.