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Career Chat with Judit Giró Benet

Judit Giró Benet, Co-Founder of The Blue Box and Junior Specialist in CECS. She joined MECPS, a joint Engineering-ICS program at UCI as a Balsells Fellow in 2019 and developed the Blue Box for her MECPS capstone project. Judit has just been named winner of the James Dyson International Award for her work on the Blue Box, an early breast cancer detection kit. She joined Prof. Fadi Kurdahi’s research group in CECS as a junior researcher seeking to solidify this technology and bring it to the market through a startup company.