Dr. Beatriz Villarroel, Astronomer biography.

Dr. Beatriz Villarroel, Astronomer

Recently one of Dr. Beatriz Villarroel’s partners in the Baltic Sea Anomaly research, Dennis Asberg, released a video statement on Twitter stating there has been a major discovery by Dr. Villarroel’s team regarding something extremely shocking and important. Here is a review of the published paper.

Dr. Beatriz Villarroel Bio

Bio & Education

  • Swedish-born (Spanish roots) astronomer, raised in Sweden.
  • Undergrad & PhD in Astronomy from Uppsala University (also a Master’s in Physics).
  • Postdoc split between Nordita (Stockholm Univ) and IAC (Canary Islands).

Academic Interests & Thesis

  • Her PhD focused on quasars and active galactic nuclei (AGN) evolution; earned a Crafoord scholarship in 2012 for that work.
  • She’s big into archival astronomy, AI‑enabled anomaly hunting, and optical SETI

Research Projects & Current Work

  • VASCO (Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations): hunts for stars that disappeared or popped up in archival sky photos; found multiple mysterious transients – including three lights that vanished within an hour in 1952, coincidentally during the Washington UFO wave.
  • EXOPROBE: brand‑new mission to spot fast-moving probes (or mirror-like objects) using a global telescope network, parallax, and spectroscopy; the goal is to literally find ET tech in our solar system.
  • She’s an Associate/Assistant Professor at Nordita/Stockholm University.

Awards & Public Outreach

  • 2021 national L’Oréal‑UNESCO For Women in Science award (Sweden), then 2022 named International Rising Talent – first Swede ever.
  • 2023 gave a TEDx Zurich talk titled Why we should search for alien artifacts.
  • Received Heterodox Academy’s Open Inquiry Award for courage against stigma in academia.

Personal Life

  • Lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Personally likes classical music (violin & chamber music), writing about her science journey, and calling out cancel culture in astronomy.

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