Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science. For all the scientists of today and those to come.

Close your eyes and think of a scientist. What image comes to mind?” asked María Mittelbrunn, head of the Immunometabolism Laboratory at the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center, at the beginning of her talk during the Women, Science, and Innovation event, organized in November by the Embassy of Sweden in Madrid and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). How many female scientists can you name? Probably one of them is the French scientist Marie Curie, the only woman to have won two Nobel Prizes, whose birth anniversary served as an excuse to discuss the situation of female researchers.