Maria E. VARELA

PhD in Geology from the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, she performed her post-Doc studies of upper mantle rocks and meteorites at the Laboratorie Pierre Süe (LPS), French Atomic Energy Agency (CEA), Centre D’Etude de Saclay (France). She is a researcher at the Institute of Astronomy, Earth, and Space Science (ICATE-CONICET)-UNSJ, Argentina, leading the cosmochemistry group. She is specialist in petrology and geochemistry of meteorites, with focus on studying the origin and formation of chondrules and glasses (glass inclusions and mesostasis) in chondritic and achondritic meteorites. These studies aim to understand the role of liquids and the fractionation processes in the solar nebula. Since 2017-2020 she served as member of the Council of the Meteoritical Society and from 2021-2022 as member of the Meteoritical Society Nominating Committee.