Erika María Benítez Lizaola is a Mexican astronomer whose research involvesblazars andactive galactic nuclei.^[1][2] She is a professor in the Faculty of Sciences at theNational Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a researcher in the UNAM Institute of Astronomy.^[3]

Benítez studied physics as an undergraduate at UNAM, and continued at UNAM for doctoral study in astronomy, completing her Ph.D. in 1997. Her dissertation,Estudios de Variabilidad de Núcleos Activos de Galaxias, reported the discovery of thehost galaxy for blazarOJ 287.^[3]

She has worked as a researcher at the UNAM Institute of Astronomy since 1997.^[4]

Benítez is a member of theMexican Academy of Sciences.^[5]

• Interview with Benítez, Radio UdeG, 14 January 2022
• Erika Benítez publications indexed byGoogle Scholar

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