About me
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Hiya, I'm Victoria Castor. I wrote this web section to share about me, a short autobiography and some fun facts about me.
I also have a blog to write more about particular topics that I've found interesting, music, scientific papers or vegetarian recipes.
Autobiography
Throughout my life I've been interested in science. As a kid one of my first hobbies in was astronomy, making me think about planets, stars and the laws that govern the Universe. Growing up, my passion of astronomy extended to other natural sciences, trying to find an explanation for every phenomena around me. Continuing my childhood without too much fiends, I started to play music, making myself happy and with one propuse for life. Latter on, during my high school years my favourite classes were history, philosophy and ethics. Thinking that my life would be dedicate for the arts and humanities.
However, when I had to decide about my career I listened my inner childhood and I chose chemistry as my bachelor degree. I started without particular preference in specific chemistry branch. I tried to learn from analytical chemistry to synthesis as equal. Nevertheless, it was not until I took a curse of quantum chemistry and saw scientific dissemination about Quantum Mechanics my mind change the paradigm of my scientific thinking. I understood the deep relationship between chemistry and physics, how so many problems in chemistry are rooted in the physical properties of systems, and how so many physics of the complex is better explained using concepts borrowed from other sciences.
Looking for more about physics I understood that I like physics tons of times more than chemistry, even if I like chemistry, trying to understand the basis of everything for me was a new way of seeing the world. Moreover, understanding that all the math I had known wasn't enough at all to understand the whole complex of basic science.
Later on, I started my MSc Degree in 2020, because of that I moved from America to Europe, from Mexico City to Madrid, particularly. That time wasn't the best time to travel, since the COVID-19 quarantine started in that year. Not knowing much about Madrid, my life in Europe was emotionally intense, however, with the time all was growing to better.
After one and a half year in Spain I moved to Paris to write my master thesis at Sorbonne Université, while I was in Paris I had one of the best part in my whole life, knowing more about me and also loving the city.
Finished my MSc studies I took the brilliant idea of be a PhD Student, moving me once again, this time to Rouen in the North of France, the smallest city where I've lived for now, but with a particular kind of beauty.
Fun facts
I always say that I'll finish this part and never happens.
I'm vegetarian, see my recipes here.
I dye my hair often.
I travel a lot, but I don't love it.