WORKSHOPS

Carlos Romá-Mateo, PhD.

Dr. Romá-Mateo did a PhD. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, focusing on the study of signaling proteins involved in cancer. He then switched his academic career to study rare diseases from the perspective of epigenetics and oxidative stress. He is very committed with scientific communication, having written three books about epigenetics and evolution, having participated in monologues and talks and managing a very successful blog and twitter account (@DrLitos) for scientific communication.

Manuel Marina, MD  & CEO at IDOVEN

Manuel Marina is a cardiologist, scientist specialized in sports cardiology and member of the Advanced Development in Arrhythmia Mechanisms and Therapy Laboratory at CNIC. He stands up for innovation in science and is very passionate about developing new technologies with multidisciplinary teams. In this way, he is the co-founder of IDOVEN, a European HealthTech startup company based in Madrid that seeks to diagnose and prevent cardiac diseases, myocardial infarction and sudden death. To do this, IDOVEN team is redefining the way cardiac arrhythmias are diagnosed by deploying digital health solutions based on artificial intelligence algorithms and a data-driven SaaS cloud platform.They have received the European Seal of Excellence from the European Commission and are granted by Horizon 2020 (the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme). IDOVEN was ranked #1 Spanish HealthTech company in 2020 by NEOTEC, a program from the Spanish Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) and has won the South Summit 2021 competition (Health vertical & as the most disruptive Startup competing with >3800 projects). Willem is the AI product they have built. It arose from the scientific and technical knowledge acquired doing basic and translational research carried out at CNIC and several Spanish hospitals. It is supported by >70 Spanish elite athletes such as Iker Casillas, who joined IDOVEN as an investor and ambassador. Manuel Marina has the perfect inspiring profile that can boost young researcher’s motivation.

Andreu Climent, PhD & CEO of Corify Care SL.

Andreu Climent is a PhD in Electronics devoted to cardiology with more than 15 years of research experience in different universities and hospitals. In 2019, Andreu co-founded Corify Care SL, a start-up awarded with the 2020 European Innovation and Technology (EIT) award for the development of a medical device that helps in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. Andreu is also very committed to science communication, and he is the chair of the “Ciencia en el Parlamento” initiative, aiming to bring science closer to politics and decision making. We are pleased to share the virtual floor with him as his experience in science transfer as well as communication is the perfect match for this year’s PhDay.

Tracey Weissgerber, PhD.

Tracey Weissberger, PhD. is a meta-researcher at Charité Universitatsmedizin Berlin. Tracey’s dreams of a world with correct data visualization and ethical and reproducible research. Hence she works on improving these through research, teaching and software development. She is author of numerous publications that explain how better data visualization can improve scientific transparency, how to identify and avoid the most common visualization errors in scientific publications and how the curriculum of statistical training in biomedical undergraduate degrees could be improved for better future science. We are delighted to be able to learn from Tracey’s experience and become better, more correct and more ethical scientists.

SESSION II

Elena Campos, PhD.

Elena Campos Sánchez (Serradilla, Cáceres, 1987) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Spanish National Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), through the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center (CBMSO), a joint research center of the CSIC and the Autonomous University from Madrid (UAM). She has a bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology (University of Salamanca). She started her scientific career at the Cancer Research Center (Salamanca) when she was 21 years old as CSIC Scholarship holder (JAE-Intro). At the age of 27, she obtained her PhD in Molecular Biosciences, Biomedicine area (UAM), focusing in the study of the development and function of the immune system in the field of rare diseases and immunodeficiencies, through the use of mouse models that reproduce human pathology. Currently, she conducts her research in the field of viral immunology for the rational development of vaccines focusing on the cellular response against viruses, including the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for COVID-19. These works are being carried out in the group of the prestigious immunovirologist Mrs. Margarita del Val Latorre. In her short career, Elena has contributed to fifteen scientific articles in top-level journals and several book chapters, has three master’s degrees and has been the recipient of several CSIC research fellowships such as the JAE-Intro or the JAE-Predoc. Additionally, she was living as a fellowship holder at the historical Residencia de Estudiantes (CSIC), institution heir to the Institución Libre de Enseñanza. She is a firm believer in the power of the word and the need for science communication to society. She has organized a multitude of events, such as the First Biotechnology Week (Salamanca, 2009), talks in rural areas and regional houses, bars, etc. She collaborates with the Department of Scientific Culture of the CBMSO and is a member of the Gender Equality Commission at CBMSO. Since 2016 she presides over the Association to Protect the Sick from Pseudoscientific Therapies (APETP, Asociación para Proteger al Enfermo de Terapias Pseudocientíficas), one of the promoters for the National Plan for Health Protection against Pseudotherapies approved in 2018 by the Government. Due to her activism fighting pseudoscience in health, she has become a visible face in the mass media.

Jara Juana Bermejo Vera, PhD.

Jara Juana Bermejo-Vega is an activist for rights, equality and inclusion in science.She is a researcher Marie Curie – Athenea3i at the University of Granada (Spain) investigating quantum computation, simulation, algorithms, complexity and foundations. She has worked as a researcher at the Free University of Berlin (2016-2019) and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Munich (Germany). She did her undergraduate studies at the University of Salamanca, were she studied a double degree in Physics and Technical Engineering in Computer Science (2005-2010). She is a co-founder of the Q-turn quantum information workshop and the Equal Opportunity Group of the Max-Planck PhDnet. Her activism promotes human rights and the creation of inclusive spaces in science.

CLOSING LECTURE

María José Remetería, PhD.

María José Rementería, is currently the leader of the Social Link Analytics Team at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). She is a physicist with formal training in AI and ML. At the professional level, María José has worked in the development of Industrial Processes and Information Systems for large technology companies such as EADS-CASA (currently Airbus Group), Telefónica and the European Space Agency (ESA). As CIO of the Telefónica Foundation, she developed the data analytics infrastructure used for the assessment of the foundation’s large portfolio of social projects. At BSC her group works in the construction of platforms for the analyses of the impact of social projects with the combination of HPC, text mining/NLP and Machine Learning techniques. She also leads the BSC bioinfo4women program which aims to promote outstanding young women scientists in their professional careers and to visualize their work.