Eva Vidal

Invitado de Honor

Eva Vidal holds a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering. She is currently an associate professor at the Barcelona School of Telecommunications Engineering (ETSETB) and the University Research Institute for Sustainability Science and Technology (ISST) at the UPC. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she is a member of the EduSTEAM research group on engineering and science education and the author of publications on sustainability and ethics in the field of  ICT, as well as in analogue and RF electronics. She is also a promoter of the NGO AUCOOP, which conducts ICT cooperation projects in schools and hospitals in developing countries. She has served as director of the UPC’s Centre for Development Cooperation and as the rector’s delegate to the Vice-Rectorate for Social Responsibility and Equality. She received the Alan Turing Social Commitment Prize at the 24th edition of the Telecommunications and IT Night Awards, and the 2025 UPC Award for Excellence in University Teaching.

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
Secrets of neuroplasticity