

When it was carnival in kindergarten, I dressed like her, while the majority of the other girls dressed up as princesses.Īs an adult, it is my closest research partner, Cecilie Morland, and, of course, Norway’s Nobel Prize winner in medicine or physiology in 2014: May-Britt Moser.

Ronja was the toughest girl I knew she fought for what she believed in and took independent and brave choices, although she was only 10 years old. I must also mention Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter, the protagonist of the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren’s children’s book of 1981. Kaja Nordengen: It was, and is, first and foremost my parents. José Beltrán Escavy: Who has been your inspiration in life, the people you look up to? Who has had the strongest influence on you?ĭr. She has graciously agreed to give us some of her time in order to answer our questions. Full of energy and determination, she has achieved much, and there is undoubtedly plenty in store for her in the future. She is not only a medical doctor and writer, but she has also given TED Talks about the brain’s workings. Kaja Nordengen, author of the bestselling scientific divulgation Your Superstar Brain: Unlocking the Secrets of the Human Mind (first published in Norwegian in 2016) became in 2014, at 26, the youngest female medical doctor in Norway. These “Perfiles” are republished from Omnia, the magazine of Mensa Spain, this one appearing in the April 2017 issue. The following is one in a series of interviews with Mensans from around the world.
