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Marisa Alonso Núñez
Marisa Alonso Núñez is pharmacist and biochemist and has a PhD in molecular microbiology and genetics. She has been working as a research scientist at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research in Manchester (UK) the past few years and she is currently working in the bi-centenarian Pharmacy Núñez in Astorga (Spain)
Adela Torres
Adela Torres studied Biology, specializing in Biochemistry. After finishing her degree, she was a participant in the Arabidopsis thaliana Genome Sequencing Project, and after getting a fellowship from Fundación La Caixa spent five years researching DNA mismatch repair in plants at Oregon State University. Even though she doesn't work in research anymore, science is still her main passion.
Inko Elgezua
MSc in Mechanical Engineering by the University of Navarra, Spain. Currently he is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at the department of Integrative Bioscience and Engineering at Waseda University, Tokyo, where he works as Associate Researcher. His research interests are: medical robotics, soft tissue modeling, intelligent control and underactuated robotics.
Pasquale Pellegrini
Holds an M.Sc. in Biotechnology from Università degli Studi di Bari (Italy). He moved to Barcelona to pursue his Ph.D. at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), where he uncovered key mechanisms of mammary stem cell differentiation and tumor initiation. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco (USA) where he is investigating the lysosome network in several neurodegenerative diseases.
Pablo Barrecheguren
Pablo Barrecheguren obtained his Ph.D. in biomedicine from IRB (U. Barcelona) in 2014. He is involved in science communication since then.
Ricardo Molero-Simarro
Ricardo Molero-Simarro is professor at the IAEU and a researcher at the Department of Applied Economics I of the University Complutense of Madrid (UCM). He is about to complete his PhD on China's economy. He has authored or co-authored several papers in peer-reviewed journals and co-edited a number of books, most of them related to economic development and income inequality issues.
Estíbaliz Urarte
Estibaliz Urarte obtained her PhD on Plant Physiology from the Public University of Navarre. Since 2014 she operates a science divulgation platform, “El Jardín de Mendel”. Currently, she is in charge of the Science section in a local cultural magazine and continues performing tasks related to the dissemination of science.