Wanda Díaz-Merced

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.