Inge van der Weijden
Inge van der Weijden has a PhD in organizational sciences from VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Since 2012 she works as a senior researcher and lecturer at the Center of Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University, The Netherlands. She leads the working group career studies. Inge conducts both qualitative and quantitative research on the motivation, selection and evaluation of scholars in order to better understand career development of scientists within and outside the academy. Special attention is given to the gender balance. Her recent research focuses on: (1) the mental health of early career researchers; (2) skill development of PhDs and (3) career satisfaction of postdocs. Inge is a board member of the Centre of Expertise for the Dutch PhD training.
Jesús Méndez
He studied Medicine at Universidad de Oviedo and got a PhD in Biochemistry at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. With a master in Scientific Communication by the Universidad Pompeu Fabra, he decided to get involved in scientific journalism. Co-founder of “Dixit Ciencia” he collaborates in many digital journals. He obtained some of the most prestigious awards in the field of scientific journalism such as Premio Prismas Casa de las Ciencias, Premio Concha García Campoy or the Periodismo en Salud Boehringer award, among many others.
Jesús Vázquez
Dr. Jesús Vázquez graduated in Physical Chemistry at the Universidad Complutense (Madrid, 1982) and carried out his PhD in Biochemistry at the Universidad Autónoma (Madrid, 1986), both with Special Distinction. During his postdoctoral training at Merck Sharp Research Laboratories (NJ, USA) and at the Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (Madrid), he specialized in protein chemistry and in the study of biomembranes in the context of neurochemical diseases. Since then, he has played a pioneering role in the development of protein chemistry, mass spectrometry and proteomics in Spain. He currently works in the development of novel bioinformatics algorithms for the analysis of very large numbers of samples, including protein identification and systems biology interpretation of quantitative data, and for the systematic study of all kind of posttranslational modifications (PTM).
Dr. Vázquez is author of more than 170 international publications, with an H-index of 45, and is Professor of Research from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He joined the CNIC (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, Madrid) as a Full Professor in 2011, where he leads the Cardiovascular Proteomics laboratory and is also in charge of the Proteomics Unit.