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I’m a prairie kid who loves research. I have a Master’s in economics with a focus on public programs, labour and education. Long before that, I did my undergrad in physics & English with a math minor.

Besides my resume, you’ll find this page full of sewing projects, the odd published poem, and stories about Canadian science.

A note about the blog title: in math and physics, the prefix eigen means one's own. It comes from the german, but mostly I always liked thinking about a particle's eigenvalues, and thought I might apply the same thought to my excursions.

Victoria Martinez eigenmotion: one's own motion | Policy, analysis... and sewing
A quilt-style geodesic sweatshirt
Nov 21

Nov 21 A quilt-style geodesic sweatshirt

Victoria Martinez
Sewing

The perfect sweatshirt for my mom

PEMFCs (Kind of my fav): The Aimy Bazylak Group
Dec 21

Dec 21 PEMFCs (Kind of my fav): The Aimy Bazylak Group

Victoria Martinez
Canadian Light Source, Science

Photos of a group of young PEMFC researchers from the AImy Bazylak group at the University of Toronto.

Peering inside a blown-up battery: Imaging lithium ion batteries to improve performance and safety
Nov 30

Nov 30 Peering inside a blown-up battery: Imaging lithium ion batteries to improve performance and safety

Victoria Martinez
Canadian Light Source, Science
Plant Science! Gurcharn Brar and wheat
Nov 22

Nov 22 Plant Science! Gurcharn Brar and wheat

Victoria Martinez
Canadian Light Source, Science
Superconductors
Nov 14

Nov 14 Superconductors

Victoria Martinez
Canadian Light Source, Science
Aimee Bell: Finding unknown interstellar molecules
Oct 19

Oct 19 Aimee Bell: Finding unknown interstellar molecules

Victoria Martinez
Canadian Light Source, Science
Nuit Blanche YXE 2016
Oct 3

Oct 3 Nuit Blanche YXE 2016

Victoria Martinez
Canadian Light Source
Improving food security and livelihoods for rural West Africa
Aug 3

Aug 3 Improving food security and livelihoods for rural West Africa

Victoria Martinez
Canadian Light Source, Science
Quick cooking chickpeas use microwaves - but not how you'd expect
May 10

May 10 Quick cooking chickpeas use microwaves - but not how you'd expect

Victoria Martinez
Canadian Light Source, Science

Researchers from the University of Manitoba have developed a simple technique to speed up the time it takes to prepare chickpeas and lentils by exposing them to microwaves before cooking.

Acid Base Mini Rockets
Mar 16

Mar 16 Acid Base Mini Rockets

Victoria Martinez
Kids' Science, Science
Airplanes and climate change
Mar 9

Mar 9 Airplanes and climate change

Victoria Martinez
Canadian Light Source, Science
Tackling uranium mill effluent treatment with chemistry
Nov 5

Nov 5 Tackling uranium mill effluent treatment with chemistry

Victoria Martinez
Canadian Light Source, Science

“It’s been exciting to do some amazing science right in my backyard,” says Robertson. “I grew up in Saskatoon, knowing what the CLS was, and when I went to university it was kind of like this magical place that I had no idea how to use.”

Prion research insight into mad cow, chronic wasting disease
Oct 21

Oct 21 Prion research insight into mad cow, chronic wasting disease

Victoria Martinez
Canadian Light Source, Science
CLS Posters: Students on the Beamline
Oct 14

Oct 14 CLS Posters: Students on the Beamline

Victoria Martinez
Aliud, Canadian Light Source, Design Work, Science
Video: Girls and their dealbreakers
Oct 12

Oct 12 Video: Girls and their dealbreakers

Victoria Martinez
Aliud
Splitting water into hydrogen fuel
Sep 23

Sep 23 Splitting water into hydrogen fuel

Victoria Martinez
Canadian Light Source, Science
2014 Research Report
Sep 17

Sep 17 2014 Research Report

Victoria Martinez
Canadian Light Source, Science
Building a better whooping cough vaccine
Sep 2

Sep 2 Building a better whooping cough vaccine

Victoria Martinez
Canadian Light Source, Science

Working towards a new vaccine for whooping cough, Rajendar Deora's lab harnesses synchrotron facilities.

Power Out (Haiku)
Sep 1

Sep 1 Power Out (Haiku)

Victoria Martinez
Poetry, Aliud

A haiku

Chalk explosions!
Aug 18

Aug 18 Chalk explosions!

Victoria Martinez
Kids' Science, Science

An easy, summery chemistry experiment for kids who don't mind making a mess.

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