 Doctora Nusley-Bolhard, doctora honoris causa de la UPF, senyora Montserrat Vendrell, presidenta del Consell Social, anterior rector Jaume Casals, professora Laya de Naralvis, rectora de transferència de coneixement, professora Cristina Pujadas, professorat membres del Comunitat Universitaria, personal de gestió, amigues, amics. Sabem que la doctora Cristina Nusley-Bolhard té diverses passions. Una d'elles és l'elit música, la música elit, i per això hem tingut aquestes cançons. We know that you have several passions and one of them is the elit music. That's why we have had these several songs. So I appreciate, we appreciate a lot the singers, the artists, and the core, UPF core for these marvellous songs. Professor Pujadas Laudatio has stressed on many aspects of the doctor Cristina Nusley-Bolhard, for example the scientific accomplishments, the her role as a scientific mentor, and her commitment to closing the gender gap. I will focus my speech in this last part. You know that UPF is committed to several key pillars. One of them is that this is an intensive research university. Another is the internationalisation, another is the commitment to culture and humanities, and another is the commitment to planetary well-being. Planetary well-being means the well-being of the planet, of course, but also the well-being of organisations, the well-being of people. And the closing the gender gap is related to this last commitment. And as Professor Pujadas has mentioned, one of the accomplishments of Dr. Cristina Nusley-Bolhard is the development of a foundation, the Cristina Nusley-Bolhard Foundation, to encourage young female scientists to pursue and to have success in their scientific career. So this means that the new honorary doctor we have at UPF is a scientist, but also a person that, apart from being a great scientist, a person who has devoted her time, to improve the planet not only with her research, but also with actions like this foundation. UPF has, in biomedical science, we have a proportion of 50-50 female male students in medicine and biomedicine. But when we analyse the proportion, when we talk about researchers that enter in this university, the 50-50 proportion changes, and now we have 25 female percentage and 75 percentage for male. So for students the average is okay, but not for research positions. But in the whole university, the proportion of male and female for students, it's 80% female, I am talking about undergraduate students, 80% female and 20% male. Probably some of you, many of you know the reason for that, but some of you maybe don't know the reason. Why for undergrad in the general, in all the courses we have at UPF, why we have 80% female, 20% male. And the reason is that to enter in this university, we use the general system, organised by the Catalan government, where the grades of the previous studies are crucial, so the students with better grades have more possibilities to enter in this university, which is probably the university where it's most difficult to enter. And you know that when female and male have 18 years old, 17 years old, 18 years old, male are thinking of the things, football soccer and many other, and female are more concentrated in the studies. So probably this is one of the reasons. But what is very shocking is that when we analyse what has happened with this percentage along the years, and several times UPF has studied the evolution of this 80% female we have in undergrad, and 20% of male, we have studied what happens along the years. And it's shocking to see that in the first year of undergrad studies, the performance of female is very high. In the first year, the performance of male is lower. But when we arrive to third year, fourth year, the performance is more similar. When the undergrad finish the studies and they are graduated, and they start working, the difference in performance starts to change. So at the beginning a female performance is very high, performance of male is very low, during the career the performance of female starts to low down in the third year, fourth year, and the performance of male is going up. And in one of the studies I remember, prepared by the social council of the university, the two key factors of making the performance of female go down and the performance of male go up, is the different proportion of work at home. And the whole couples and families distribute their time. So this means a big problem, because many studies demonstrate that an organization and a society it's better when there is a gender balance in top levels of organization. Many studies demonstrate that companies, even listed companies in the stock exchange, they have higher profitability when they have a gender balance on top. Higher profitability, higher performance, so many good results. So that's why we think that it's very good what you've done with your foundation to try to improve the gender balance. Here at UPF we try to do our best to that, but it's very difficult to improve. We have slight improvements, but if we compare our first gender plan, gender balance plan, we started more than ten years ago, well, at the end of the first gender equality plan, we had some slight improvements, we have a second gender plan, now we are about to finish that plan, and now we are studying the results, and the results are not good enough. So it seems that there is a lot of room to do in order to improve this. And as I have mentioned, we are devoted to Planetary Will Beings, and Planetary Will Beings means not only solving economic issues, the issues of environment, but also this big issue. Because remember, we have 80% of students in the undergraduate students, but when we see 15 years later, what are they doing? They are not in top positions. So this means that they can... It's more difficult to make a difference in connection with organizations and so on. It's true that everybody can make a difference whatever they are, but this is a big problem. That's why I congratulate you, not only for your research, but also for devoting some time to help young women researchers to pursue with their career. Here, for example, I have data. If we talk about Nobel Prize, from 1921 to 2021, only 58 women have been awarded, 58, out and 889 men. This means 6%. At UPF, you are the 18th. Scientist, person, to be awarded with the honorary degree of this university. You are the 18th. Out of 18th, the first one was Desmond Tutu, and the last one is Angela Davis. And out of 18, we have five honorary doctors. You are the number five. So this means more or less 25%. But there is a lot of work to do also in this field. So I wish that in the coming years, we can have more improvements in all the issues related to the gender balance. I'm about to finish. So it's a great honor for us to have you as a new honorary doctor. It's a real great honor, and that's why we are so happy today. And thank you very much to all of you for attending this event and also to be with us today. Thank you very much.