 Erna M. Frins was born in Paysandú, Uruguay. She obtained her Diplom-Physikerin degree from the Technishe Universitaet Berlin. Her Thesis was about the properties of solid state tunable lasers.
Since 1992 she is a member of the staff of the Physics Institute at the Facultad de Ingeniería. In 1998 she obtained the doctor in sciences degree (Dr.phil.nat.) from the Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/Main.
Her Thesis was devoted to the study of the topological optical phases and their applications on telecommunications. This work was financed by the Deutsche Telekom AG, and performed at the Telekom Reaserch Institut at Darmstadt.
At present her main interest is the development of new optical methods to study the atmosphere and emission sources. |
