Gonzalo Durante

Gonzalo (Gonn) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Biological Research Center (CIB-CSIC) in Madrid, involved in various projects related to environmental microbiology, biotechnology and synthetic biology. He holds a BSc in Biology in 2002 and a BSc in Biochemistry in 2004 at the Complutense University in Madrid. He obtained his PhD studying the genetic regulation of aromatic degradation pathways and the molecular evolution of transcriptional regulators in CIB-CSIC (2009). He completed his training with short stays at the University of Cayetano Heredia (Perú) and University of Sydney (Australia). He decided to do a first postdoc in the Victor de Lorenzo’s Lab, where he was involved in several projects related to synthetic biology.

Outside the laboratory, he has developed several activities such as playing the guitar in a band, participating in science outreach activities with kids, and developing games at the game publisher he founded in 2013 (“using” his 3 children as beta testers). Currently, he teaches several games and science outreach workshops in schools for children between 6 and 12 years old.

José Luis Crespo

José Luis Crespo is a physicist that, five years ago, created Quantum Fracture, a motion graphics channel dedicated to show how incredibly crazy is the Universe. Nowadays the channel has more than one million subscribers and more than fifty million views, being one of the most important outreach  channels within the Spanish community. Crespo has also been part of theoutreach personal of the Institute of Theoretical Physics (IFT) in Madrid.

Fátima Sánchez-Cabo

Fátima Sánchez-Cabo is the head of Bioinformatics Unit at CNIC. In 2000, she graduated in Mathematics at University Complutense of Madrid (Spain). During her PhD at University of Manchester (UK), Fátima developed a number of algorithms and tools for the quantitative analysis of high-throughput biomolecular data. In 2004, she moved to Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics in the Graz University of Technology (Austria) as a postdoctoral researcher. Specifically, she successfully worked in several projects of precision medicine. After that, she joined CNIC aiming to implement new predictive scores in cardiovascular risk.

Marta Seror

Marta Seror is the outreach coordinator at the Institute of Physics of Cantabria. She has an Astrophysics degree at UCM and is nowadays back at university studying a Master’s degree in Particle Physics and Cosmos. Her wide experience as a science educartor has given her the skills and knowledge to bring science closer to the public in an accesible way. She was semifinalist of Famelab, an international scientific monologues contest, and also participates in science events such as Pint of Science festival and Scenio. For more tan two years now she has been leading a radio and podcast project called ‘Cuentíficas’ that focuses on gender perspective in science. Her dedication to creating a feminist framework for an inclusive Academy has just begun.