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Rosa Devés Alessandri (Santiago, Chile January 23, 1950) is a Chilean biochemist, academic and educator. In 2022, she was the rector of the University of Chile, which will allow her to be the first woman to assume that position.

Lifetime
Rosa is the daughter of the engineer Raúl Devés Jullian and Rosa Alessandri Montes. On the Alessandri family side, she is the granddaughter of Hernán Alessandri Rodríguez, great-niece of President Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez and great-granddaughter of President Arturo Alessandri Palma.

During her youth, she participated in the theater company of his Faculty and studied ballet for 30 years.

Rosa studied biochemistry at the Faculty of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Chile, graduating on June 3, 1974. In 1978, she obtained a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. After that, she did postdoctoral studies at the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, United States.

She is married to Jorge Las Heras Bonetto, with whom she has a son.

Academic work
Since 1980 he taught at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile, where he taught biophysics and conducted research in cell physiology.

During the 1980s, he was part of the Andrés Bello University Group, made up of academics who promoted a change of regime and the protection of the University as a space for transformation. At the same time, she was director of the University Reform publication of the Center for Democracy Studies.

In the 1990s, she dedicated herself to strengthening the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (IBMS), belonging to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile, where she served as deputy director. He has participated in different initiatives aimed at strengthening science education, highlighting his participation in 2002 in the Inquiry-Based Science Education Program (IBSE), aimed at elementary school students. Since 2003 she is a corresponding member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences.

Since 2000, he has been involved in various positions, such as university institutional management. During the rectorate of Víctor Pérez Vera, she was director of the Postgraduate and Postgraduate Department of the Vice-rector for Academic Affairs of the University of Chile between 2006 and 2010, and then as pro-rector between 2010 and 2014. That last year, she was appointed vice-rector of Academic Affairs by the rector Ennio Vivaldi Véjar. She has stood out for her work as spokesperson for the advisory council for the Higher Education Reform.

On May 12, 2022, she was elected as the first female rector of the University of Chile for the period 2022-2026, obtaining 51.69% of the votes cast.

Rewards

 * Distinction "Woman Generation XXI Century", University of Chile, in 2005
 * Award from the Council for Innovation in Science Teaching A.C. of Mexico, for her work with Jorge Allende for IBSE

Enlaces externos

 * Portafolio Académico de la Universidad de Chile
 * Candidatura de Rosa Devés a la Rectoría de la Universidad de Chile

Category:1950 births Category:Living people