Wanda Diaz Merced

Wanda Diaz Merced holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Currently working at Unversidad del Sagrado Corazon in Puerto Rico, Wanda worked at the European Gravitational Observatory in Pisa, Italy, the South African Observatory in Cape Town, SouthAfrica and the National Astronomical Observatory in Japan While performing as a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Wanda evidenced through careful perception experiments that the use of sound increases the expert sighted astronomer sensitivity to events in the telemetry that by nature are undetectable to the human eye. Wanda has applied the use of audio analysis of data to high-energy astrophysics, gravitational waves, and cosmic rays.

She has worked with different subjects in astronomy, specializing in using audio as an adaptive basis of expansion to figure out mathematics corresponding to the nature of space physics. Wanda is the director of the Global Campaign Science in Braille of the Royal Academy of Sciences International Trust. Through Science in Braille, Wanda sustains dialogues with policymakers and local organizations to work for science to make a transition from a visual technological economy to a multisensorial economy that will support and enhance the way people have to perform at their own maximum to produce better science.