María José García Borge

Borge was born on November 9, 1956, in Madrid. Her parents were José García Prol and Esther Borge Rodriguez. She earned three degrees from University Complutense, graduating in 1978 with a physics degree, 1979 with a graduate physics degree, and 1982 with a Doctor of Philosophy in physics.^[1]

Borge worked as a teaching assistant at University Complutense from 1981 to 1983. From 1982 to 1983, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Arizona^[1] and from 1984 to 1986 was a fellow of the European Organization for Nuclear Research. In 1986, she began working as a researcher at the National Research Council in Madrid.^[4]

From 2012 till 2017 she was heading the physics group at the ISOLDE facility at CERN.^[2] From 2009 till 2019 she was member of the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee.^[7]

She was awarded honoris causa doctorates by Chalmers University of Technology^[8] and University of Huelva.^[9]

On September 9, 1989, Borge married Olof Erik Ingemar Tengblad. Borge is of ethnic Spanish descent.^{[citation needed]}