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
Secrets of neuroplasticity

Felipe A. Court

He is a neuroscientist, full time professor and director of the Research Center on Aging and Healthy Longevity at the Universidad Mayor, and Adjunct Professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging (EU). His work explores the mechanisms of degeneration and regeneration of the nervous system in aging and neurodegenerative diseases, with more than 100 scientific publications and almost ten thousand citations. He has received multiple awards and led national and international projects that connect basic science with the development of innovative therapies.
Affiliations:
Full professor and director, Center for Aging and Healthy Longevity, Universidad Mayor, Chile
Director, National FONDAP Geroscience Center for Brain Health and Metabolism
Adjunct professor, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, USA

http://www.courtlab.cl
https://gerochile.cl/
http://www.buckinstitute.org

Other activities involving the participant:

Discover the causes of neurodegenerative diseases

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:

Secrets of neuroplasticity
Science and art
Science on a soccer field
Science, even in the kitchen!
How does CRISPR gene editing work?
Julieta Fierro: a forever star