Karen Astrid Hallberg

Professor Karen Hallberg is the Secretary General-elect of the Pugwash Conferences for Science and World Affairs, co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize for its mission to “diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms”.

An Argentine physicist, Hallberg works at the Bariloche Atomic Center and the Balseiro Institute. She was awarded the 2019 L’Oreal-UNESCO International Award for Women in Science. She holds two honorary doctorates and is a corresponding member of the Argentine Academy for Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, a member of the Latin American Academy of Sciences, a board member and International Councilor of the American Physical Society, and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on the Future of Quantum Economy. 

Hallberg is committed to bring scientific insight to meet the challenges posed by global nuclear dangers, regional conflicts, disruptive technologies, chemical and biological weapons, including all those matters at the intersection of science and society.