Dr. Gloria Baigorrotegui, Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences, IDEA-USACH Institute

 

How do large energy generation plants affect societies? This is the main focus of the research conducted by the professor and researcher, Dr. Gloria Baigorrotegui, PhD in Social and Political Studies of Science and Technology from Universidad del País Vasco, and a degree in Civil Industrial Engineering from Universidad de Santiago de Chile.

 

“The field of energy and society is an interdisciplinary field with people from engineering, philosophy, social studies, anthropological studies and obviously, ecology studies. I became involved in this field after closely following two conflicts, and taking collective action against the installation of large energy generation plants. In the case of the Basque Country, I followed the conflict over the construction of a natural gas-fired plant, and in Chile, I studied large-sized coal thermal plants, and hydroelectric dam plants”, explains Dr. Gloria Baigorrotegui.