Yayo González

Musician, composer and producer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, based in Mexico since 2002. He studied at the Juan Manuel Lefalla National Conservatory and at the Popular Music School of the Argentine Musicians Union, in addition to training independently and self-taught. 
In 2005 he co-founded Pate de Fuá together with Guillermo Perata and some of the most outstanding jazz musicians from Mexico, a group in which he still works as a composer, singer, guitarist and director. With Pate de Fuá he has toured stages in the United States, Colombia, Argentina, England, Ireland, France, Spain, Russia and India. 

José Franco

He obtained a bachelor's degree in physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and a master's and doctorate in physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. 
He is currently a senior researcher at the Institute of Astronomy of the UNAM (IA-UNAM) and coordinator of the Art, Science and Technologies Program of the UNAM. His work covers a wide range of activities that include teaching, research, institutional management, promotion of scientific projects and science communication.

He has published more than 230 research, teaching and dissemination works, and has edited 35 books on these topics. In 2019 he wrote a book about the 50th anniversary of the trip to the Moon. 
His work is internationally recognized and he has won national and international prizes, including the UNAM Research Prize, Prize of the Mexican Physical Society, PhD honoris causa from the National Institute of Optical and Electronic Astrophysics (INAOE), as well as the appointment of Knight of the Order of Academic Palms and the Decoration of Officer of the National Order of Merit, both from the government of France. 

He obtained a bachelor's degree in physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and a master's and doctorate in physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. 
He is currently a senior researcher at the Institute of Astronomy of the UNAM (IA-UNAM) and coordinator of the Art, Science and Technologies Program of the UNAM. His work covers a wide range of activities that include teaching, research, institutional management, promotion of scientific projects and science communication. He has published more than 230 research, teaching and dissemination works, and has edited 35 books on these topics. In 2019 he wrote a book about the 50th anniversary of the trip to the Moon. 
His work is internationally recognized and he has won national and international prizes, including the UNAM Research Prize, Prize of the Mexican Physical Society, PhD honoris causa from the National Institute of Optical and Electronic Astrophysics (INAOE), as well as the appointment of Knight of the Order of Academic Palms and the Decoration of Officer of the National Order of Merit, both from the government of France.

He was director of Astronomy Institute of UNAM, president of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, general director of the General Directorate of Science Dissemination of the UNAM, general coordinator of the Scientific and Technological Consultative Forum, AC, coordinator of the Advanced Astrophysics Program Guillermo Haro of the INAOE, editor of the series Cambridge Contemporary Astrophysics from the University of Cambridge, UK, editor of the Journal Obsidian of science and culture dissemination. 
In 2009, he integrated science to the Cervantino International Festival, and in 2012 to the International Festival of Mayan Culture. Since 2009 he has been the national coordinator of the Night of the Stars, the most important science communication event in Latin America, which takes place in more than 100 venues throughout the country, and more than four million people have attended.