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

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:

Aging hand in hand with science

Rocío Cerón

(Ciudad de México, 1972) 

Poeta, artista y performer. Ha lanzado los álbumes de poesía sonora Speculari (2024), Miiuni (España, 2022) y Sonic Bubbles (México, 2020). Ha publicado los libros de poesía Divisible corpóreo (México, 2022), Simultáneosucesivo (México 2024; España, 2022), Spectio (México, 2019), Observante (España, Argentina, ambas ediciones 2020), Materia oscura (2018), Borealis (FCE México, 2016), Nudo vortex (México y Nueva York, ambas ediciones 2015), Diorama (2012) y Basalto (2022), entre otros. Diorama fue traducido por Anna Rosenwong y ganó el Best Translated Book Award 2015, otorgado por la Universidad de Rochester (Estados Unidos). También ha sido galardonada con el Premio Nacional de Literatura Gilberto Owen 2000 en poesía (México) y el Premio See America Travel Award 2005 (Estados Unidos). Sus poemas han sido traducidos al inglés y a diversos idiomas europeos. 
En 2021 fue una de las 25 artistas seleccionadas para la Bienal de Fotografía del Centro de la Imagen en México con el videopoema Potenciales Evocados. En 2022 recibió la Residencia Córdoba-Ciudad de las Ideas de la Fundación Artdecor-Ayuntamiento de Córdoba (España), la del Centro de Investigación, Innovación y Desarrollo de las Artes (Monterrey, México) y la Residencia Artística del Tecnológico de Monterrey (TEC)-Región Centro Sur para desarrollar poesía sonora y performática para intervención en espacios públicos. En 2023 recibió la Michael Rothenberg International Poets Grant. Desde 2010 forma parte del Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte de México (SNCA). Sigue su proceso creativo en www.instagram.com/laobservante/ y conoce su obra en rocioceron.com
 

Other activities involving the participant:

The Poetry Room
Expanded Poetry Evening