# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wanda-diaz-merced
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:56:37.149Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wanda-diaz-merced"
name: "Wanda Díaz-Merced"
slug: "wanda-diaz-merced"
description: "Wanda Díaz-Merced is a Puerto Rican astronomer known for using sonification to turn large data sets into audible sound. Formerly at the European Gravitational Observatory Cascina, Italy, Díaz-Merced is currently the Director of the Arecibo C3 STEM Education Center. While losing her eyesight, Díaz-Merced brought attention to increasing equality of access to astronomy and using audible sound to study astrophysical data.. Díaz-Merced is a part of the 7 most trailblazing women in science by the BBC."
tagline: "American astrophysicist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Wanda_D%C3%ADaz-Merced_%28KH9A1942-180822-CC%29.jpg/330px-Wanda_D%C3%ADaz-Merced_%28KH9A1942-180822-CC%29.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           42.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.62016
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wanda Díaz-Merced"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_D%C3%ADaz-Merced"
    title: "Wanda Díaz-Merced"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B2_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "واندا دياز ميرسيد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_D%C3%ADaz-Merced"
    title: "Wanda Díaz-Merced"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_D%C3%ADaz-Merced"
    title: "Wanda Díaz-Merced"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_D%C3%ADaz-Merced"
    title: "Wanda Díaz-Merced"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_D%C3%ADaz-Merced"
    title: "Wanda Díaz-Merced"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_D%C3%ADaz-Merced"
    title: "Wanda Díaz-Merced"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41570105"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump