Adriana Cristina Serquis (born 7 November 1967) is an Argentine physicist and researcher associated to the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). From 2021 to 2024 she was president of the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA). In 2014, she received the L'Oréal-UNESCO National Award For Women in Science for her contribution to the rational use of electrical energy.
Adriana Cristina Serquis was born in Buenos Aires on 7 November 1967. She took an interest in physics at an early age.
She earned a licentiate in physical sciences at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires in 1993, and a doctorate in physical sciences at the Balseiro Institute in 2000.
From 1994 to 2000, she was a fellow of the CNEA and CONICET. From 2001 to 2003, she was a post-doctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States.
As CONICET's principal researcher at the CNEA's Bariloche Atomic Center, her line of research was framed in developing advanced techniques for characterizing materials for clean energies, where she studied the synthesis and characterization of superconducting materials and nanometric oxides for high temperature fuel cells.
She also served as an adjunct professor at the Andean Headquarters of the National University of RÃÂo Negro, dictating materials for the chemistry program, and as a visiting professor at the Balseiro Institute.
She is president of the Argentine Crystallography Association and a member of the administrative council of the .
She was named president of the CNEA on 4 June 2021.