Solar System Ambassadors
Ilhuiyolitzin Villicana Pedraza
Ilhuiyolitzin Villicana Pedraza is a motivated teacher who focuses on space science and astronomy outreach. She loves visiting the observatories and all the space installations. She received a Ph.D. from Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, and the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy in Germany, she is a specialist in the study of molecules in Space. She also had two months of training at the European Southern Observatory in Chile. She visited the Robledo de Chavela station in Spain and received a certification for outreach from CSIC Spain. Since returning to the United States, she has been teaching The Planets, Introduction to Astronomy classes in the College DACC-NMSU, and Physics in NMSU main campus. She is part-time faculty as well as doing space outreach at international levels. She is a Member of the Executive Committee WG Astronomy for Equity and Inclusion of the International Astronomical Union. She also studied a second major in aerospace technology at NMSU and obtained certifications in Data Science, Artificial intelligence, SQL Server, and Power Bi to be implemented in her grant ELSOL from NSF.