Mara Dierssen

Invitado de Honor

Doctor Dierssen is Director of the Cellular and Systems Neurobiology Laboratory at the Centre for Genomic Regulation. She has made major contributions to our understanding of intellectual disability and genetic disorders. She has received numerous accolades for her work, including the prestigious Sisley-Lejeune Prize and the National Prize for Scientific Culture awarded by the Government of Catalonia, as well as the Ramón Trias Fargas, Jaime Blanco and Fundación Esteve prizes. These distinctions led to an invitation to contribute to Nature Reviews Neuroscience (2012) and to her election as a member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia and the Academia Europaea. She has also been awarded the Silver Medal of the College of Physicians, of which she is an honorary member, and recognised as a Distinguished Alumna of the University of Cantabria.

Other activities involving the participant:

Creativity
Authoritarianism: a threat to science

Salvador Macip

Invitado de Honor

Salvador Macip is a doctor, scientist and writer. He is also a professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Leicester, Dean at the Open University of Catalonia and researcher at the BarcelonaBeta Brain Research Centre. He is the author of 43 fiction and non-fiction books.

Other activities involving the participant:

Creativity
Aging hand in hand with science

María Emilia Beyer

She is a biologist and a master in philosophy of science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is the director of Universum, Science Museum. Author of more than 30 popular science papers related to the natural sciences and health sciences, as well as the author of nine popular science books. Creator of the exhibitions Science with chocolate flavor, Women inventors and Dinosaurs among us, in collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History in New York. She has been a member of the Board of Directors at the Association of Science and Technology Centers since 2021, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Mexican Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). 

Other activities involving the participant:

Aging hand in hand with science
Science and art
Science on a soccer field
Science, even in the kitchen!
How does CRISPR gene editing work?
Julieta Fierro: a forever star