Javier Sierra

Comenzó su carrera como escritor viajando por medio mundo en busca de pruebas que sustentan en la idea de que, antes de las civilizaciones antiguas que conocemos, hubo una cultura madre avanzada, hoy desaparecida, de la que éstas heredaron la mayoría de sus sorprendentes conocimientos. Como reportero de varias revistas especializadas españolas recorrió cuatro continentes tomando nota cuidadosa de cuanto veía.

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Enigma and betrayal: Reconstructing history

Gabriela Gil

She is a consultant and advisor in the management of cultural and museological processes.
She is currently the technical secretary of the General Directorate of Visual Arts and the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Since 2022, she has been the president of the Board of Directors of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) Mexico. Her passion: books, museums and good wine.
 

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

Maria Carme Roca

Invitado de Honor

Maria Carme Roca (Barcelona, 1955) is a Catalan historian and philologist, and one of the country’s most widely read authors. After twelve years as a teacher, she has devoted herself exclusively to writing since 1997. She has published over seventy books, aimed at both children and young people as well as adults. Her work spans short stories, essays and novels, with a particular focus on historical fiction, including titles such as El pont de fusta (The Wooden Bridge) (2004), Bàrcino (2009) and L’enigma Colom (The Columbus Enigma) (2014). Her essays include Les dones de Jaume I (The Wives of James I) (2008) and Abadesses i priores a la Catalunya medieval (Abbesses and Prioresses in Medieval Catalonia) (2014).
Over the course of her career she has received numerous awards, including the Lola Anglada Prize for On s’amaga la por (Where Fear Hides) (2002), the Nèstor Luján Prize for Historical Fiction for Intrigues de palau (Palace Intrigues) (2006), the Joaquim Ruyra Prize for Katalepsis (2012), the Illa dels Llibres Prize for A punt d’estrena (Ready for Première) (2016), awarded by popular vote, the Barcanova Prize for Young People’s Literature for Selfies al cementiri (Selfies in the Cemetery) (2017) and the Prudenci Bertrana Girona Literary Prize for the novel El far (The Lighthouse) (2018). In 2025 she won the Santa Eulàlia Prize with El passatge (The Passage), adding yet another accolade to her distinguished record. Alongside writing, she regularly takes part in school reader forums, library discussions and literary walking tours based on her novels. 
 

Other activities involving the participant:

The secret Barcelona
The seduction of historical figures

Javier Sierra

Comenzó su carrera como escritor viajando por medio mundo en busca de pruebas que sustentan en la idea de que, antes de las civilizaciones antiguas que conocemos, hubo una cultura madre avanzada, hoy desaparecida, de la que éstas heredaron la mayoría de sus sorprendentes conocimientos. Como reportero de varias revistas especializadas españolas recorrió cuatro continentes tomando nota cuidadosa de cuanto veía.

Other activities involving the participant:

Science and art