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Nature speaks to scientists in Peru about the issues that science in the country has had in funding and education, and the promise of what it has yet to offer researchers – both those from Latin America and further afield.
A conversation with Juan Matin Rodriguez R., Director of the Center for the Development of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology and former Director of the Research Management Unit of the Research Vice-Rectorship at the National University of Engineering in Lima, Peru