Award for Photonic neuromorphic computing 2018 Queensland Young Tall Poppy Award 2018 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science HOPE Fellowship 2017 L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women In Science Fellowship 2016 Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Advocacy Romero has been an advocate for women in science, emphasising the importance of role models for young women interested in physics. In interviews, Romero emphasises that it is possible to have a productive research career and have children saying, “I do not feel less of a physicist because I am a mother, nor less of a mother because I am a physicist” References Filipino women scientists Filipino women academics Alumni of the University of Glasgow Quantum physicists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Women in optics