Frins Erna

Erna Frins is Professor of Physics at the Physics Institute of the Engineering School, Universidad de la República, Uruguay. Dipl.-Phys. (1992) from the TU-Berlin and  PhD in physics (1998) from the Wolfgang Goethe-University, Germany. 

Frins receided the National UNESCO – L’OREAL Award for Women in Science in 2012. 

She is curretly Chair of the National Science Committee for Antarctic Research, Uruguay. 

She leads a research group in pure and applied optics. Her research is focused on developing optical methods for atmospheric remote sensing. 

She served as associate editor for the Journal Atmospheric Measurements Techniques (2011-2021). 

She joined the Aerosol Robotic Network - AERONET, NASA, Project in 2019.