Rosa Maria Prol Ledesma

Rosa Maria Prol Ledesma has a Physics Degree from the Faculty of Sciences UNAM, PhD in Physics-Mathematics from the URSS Academy of Sciences, and Diploma in Geothermal Energy Technology from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. For 43 years she has been working as a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of UNAM. Emeritus Researcher of the National System of Researchers. Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering of Mexico. To date, her work accounts for 154 publications, 2 books, 5 book chapters; three maps of geothermal resources of the Mexican Republic. Her work has more than 2900 citations. She has directed a total of 59 theses. Her publications include heat flux maps and geothermal provinces of Mexico. She has been visiting professor at Harvard University (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences), USA, the University of Auckland (Geothermal Institute and Geology Department), New Zealand, and at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Her projects focus on the development of new geothermal exploration and exploitation methods, permanent CO2 capture in geothermal deposits, extraction of substances useful for geothermal fluids and the use of oil wells in the exploitation of geothermal energy.