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My name is Azlin Biaggi, and my title is a
research electronics engineer.

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While I’m involved in designing chemical
sensors which are used basically platforms

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that we use to detect gases and they’re
used for hydrogen and gas leak detections,

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in for example: engines, fire detection, and
things like that.

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Their future use is to be used in the breath
analyzers.

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Um, the reason for this is that if we can
detect low levels, as in parts per billion,

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we can use it as an asthma prevention technique.

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I was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto
Rico, and my Ph.D. degree was obtained at

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the University of Puerto Rico.

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It was in Chemical Physics.

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Chemistry was because my high school teacher-chemistry
teacher.

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She was a very inspiring teacher, and she
was the reason I did my bachelor’s in Chemistry.

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Physics was more when I was in college.

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I took the Physics-general physics-course
and actually liked it.

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Uh, not many people like it, but I was one
of the few that actually enjoyed it.

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To me, education is one of the most important
things.

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Right now you need an education now only in
science but in any type of area to make educated

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decisions in your life, and that’s one of
the reasons I do outreach educational activities-to

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motivate students to go into college and have
a better way of life.

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If I had an opportunity to tell students to
come to work at NASA, my first thing would

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be do internships not only-NASA not only offers
college internships.

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It offers high school, summer internships,
and you can experience what it’s like to

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work at NASA.