“La Doctora”, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who became Mexico’s first female president.

She is a scientist, Nobel Peace Prize winner and now the first woman to serve as president of Mexico. With a resume full of accomplishments, Claudia Sheinbaum, “The Doctor,” won the Mexican presidential election this Sunday with nearly 60% of the vote, making history by becoming the only woman to win the position in the 200 years of the Republic.

Claudia Sheinbaum, a 61-year-old Jewish woman, is the daughter of two scientists, a chemist and a biologist, who emigrated from Lithuania and Bulgaria to Mexico. Born and raised in this family, she decided to follow in her parents’ footsteps and become a researcher, the publication writes. El Universal.

Between 2000 and 2006, Claudia Sheinbaum was the Minister of Environment under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador during his tenure as head of government. According to The newspaper “New York TimesClaudia took office after a meeting with the President, where she outlined numerous proposals to combat environmental pollution in the country.

In 2018, thanks to a successful campaign focusing on reducing crime and enforcing territorial planning laws, she was elected mayor of Mexico City.

Claudia studied physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and completed her PhD in energy engineering in the USA. Thanks to the scholarship, he was then able to gain academic experience at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the University of California, also in the USA. She has received international recognition for her work in physics and energy.

“La Doctora” is characterized as a demanding and reserved woman at work. She is described as smart, driven and extremely hardworking. According to Soledad Aragon, an employee in Sheinbaum’s office, the Mexican was able to remember specific numbers several weeks after they were mentioned at the meeting.

In 2007, Claudia was part of the team that received the Nobel Peace Prize for climate change research.

Throughout her political career, Claudia has also been committed to advocating for free education. She participated in the 1987 strike movement against the reforms of then UNAM rector Jorge Carpizo as one of the leaders of the Council of University Students (CEU). She even called herself “the daughter of 68” because her parents were involved in the 1968 student struggle, before the Tlatelolco massacre.