Rosa Arias is the founder of ScienceforChange and the creator of the OdourCollect app. She is a chemical engineer and has a master’s degree in Energy. Rosa she has more than 15 years of experience working in European projects, among others, she has coordinated the D-NOSES and NEWSERA projects, and will coordinate the future European competence center in science communication.

Passionate about citizen science, responsible and collaborative research and the role of women in science, she coordinated the Spanish centre of the HYPATIA project to attract girls towards STEM careers. AT Science for Change, she wants to bring science closer to society and inform better public policies where citizens participate.

Rosa is also an adviser to “Science in Parliament”, an independent citizen initiative whose objective is that science and scientific knowledge are one of the sources of information in the formulation of political proposals. In addition, she is a member of the board of directors of the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) and has received several recognitions and distinctions. During 2022 she has been selected as one of the “Top 100 European women in social companies” by the EuclidNetwork network and has received the eWoman Equality awards from El Periodico and the “A Self-Employed Professional Woman” award from Caixabank.