Antonella Delgado

Antonella Delgado is a goal-oriented recent college graduate in Environmental Engineering, with academic awards. She has worked as a health & safety assistant in a recognized mining and transportation company in Peru. Aiming to leverage the academic experience and proven knowledge of conservation solutions and pollution management she has developed a passion for her field. This motivation has lead her to participate in the Twenty-seventh Campaign of Peru to Antarctica as a part of the scientific staff to assist in an environmental studying microplastics. She spent a whole month during the Austral summer 2019 - 2020 in the south pole. She hopes to make a change in Peru's laws in environmental engineering. Planning to disseminate the results obtained in scientific projects in schools and/or universities, increasing citizen awareness and participation in science. Through her studies among others’ evidence, she seeks to propose a bill to implement mandatory environmental education in educational institutions.