Invited Speakers

Enrique F. Borja has a PhD in physics. After a career in research and as a university lecturer, he has now turned his attention to dissemination. He is now trying his hand at television. His first programme as a creator was Una Matemática Viene a Verte. 

Graduated in Pharmacy with a specialisation in R&D+i and Industry. Master’s in Biotechnology, Innovation and Food Security. She has been working for 10 years in the food industry, both in the quality department, as R&D+i director, and currently as technical director. She is an associate professor on the Nutrition and Dietetics degree course at the Miguel de Cervantes European University in the subjects of Food Legislation and Food Policy. Her communication activities include:
- Blog collaborator with Atresmedia and Revista Mía
- Radio Nacional de España (food and food security segment on the ‘A media mañana’ programme).
- Collaboration on the CyL 8 TV programme ‘Vamos a ver’ and on MeteoRed
- Author of a blog at: farmagemma.naukas.com and the book No comemos como antes, y menos mal (We don´t eat like before, and just as well).

A journalist of the Canal Sur broadcasting corporation, and associated with radio since the beginning of her professional career, Susana Escudero has a degree in English Philology and a Master's degree in Physical and Forensic Anthropology. With expertise in science dissemination, she produced “El Radioscopio” on Canal Sur Radio together with Emilio García (IAA-CSIC), for which they received around ten awards, including 3 Prismas and the Andalusia Prize for Journalism. On Canal Sur Television, and together with José Mª Montero, she produced “Más Desafío Ártico”, bringing science to prime-time television. With the firm intention of “spreading the virus”, she provides communication training for research staff. She is a regular at dissemination events such as Desgranando Ciencia, Las que Cuentan la Ciencia and, of course, Naukas.

Clara Grima (Coria del Río, Spain. 1971) holds a PhD in Mathematics and is a tenured lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the University of Seville. Since 2010 she has been combining her teaching and research with intensive scientific dissemination work in various print and audiovisual media, always using mathematics as a pretext. Her dissemination books have been translated into French, Italian, Czech, Hungarian, Korean, Chinese and other languages. She presents the programme "Una matemática viene a verte" broadcast by the RTVE. She gives hundreds of talks a year and is convinced that everyone likes maths even though some are not yet aware of it.

He has a PhD in Biology, is Professor of Microbiology and Director of the Science Museum of the University of Navarre. His research has focused on the study of bacterial virulence and the development of new vaccines. He is the author of the “microBIO” blog. He has published several dissemination books: “¿Funcionan las vacunas?” (Premio Prismas 2018), “Microbiota, los microbios de tu organismo”, “Virus y pandemias”, and “Preparados para la próxima pandemia”. In collaboration with his daughter, he has also written “Princesas de cristal” dealing with the problem of juvenile anorexia. In 2021 he received the Lilly Foundation Prize for the Dissemination of Science, the COSCE Prize for the Dissemination of Science, and the CSIC-BBVA Foundation Prize for Scientific Communication. In 2023 he received the Spanish Award for Science Communication. 

Almudena Martín Castro is a graduate in Fine Arts and in Physics. She combines her digital design work with intense communication activities. She received the Tesla Science and Technology Award in 2017 and the award for Best Use of Science in the NASA Space Apps Challenge in 2018. In 2020, together with Iñaki Úcar, she solved the mystery of Beethoven's metronome, which had a great national and international impact. She has just published her first book, with HarperCollins. In La lira desafinada de Pitágoras (Pythagoras’ Out-of-Tune Lyre) she tells of how music inspired science to understand the world.

Isabel Moreno-Muñoz. She is a Physics graduate, has a Master’s in Meteorology and Geophysics (UCM-Complutense University of Madrid) and is a specialist in communicating climate change. She is the author of the book “Cambio Climático para Principiantes”, published by Penguin Random House. Since 2016, she has been working in different media as a meteorologist and weather presenter, in particular the RTVE programme "Aquí la Tierra". What is more, she has been combining this work with training and dissemination relating to climate change; she is a speaker on UNED (Open University) courses, giving lectures at major conferences and seminars, as well as collaborating with various television programmes, radio, written press and other network formats. 

Iñigo Olalde (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, 1987) has a degree in Biology from the University of Navarre and a PhD in Palaeogenomics (2016) from the Pompeu Fabra University. He was a postdoctoral researcher in Dr David Reich's group at Harvard University, and a “La Caixa” Junior Leader at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF). In 2021 he joined the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) as a Ramón y Cajal researcher and an Ikerbasque Research Fellow. His lines of research focus on the recovery and analysis of DNA from ancient human remains in order to study the demographic changes that took place on the European continent during the Holocene, as well as the evolution of the social organisation of human societies in the past.

Javier Peláez (Puertollano, Spain, 1974) is a writer and science communicator. Author of “500 años de frío. La gran aventura del Ártico” (Crítica, 2019) and “Planeta Océano” (Crítica, 2022). He is one of the founders of the Naukas.com platform and a scriptwriter for the RTVE programme “El Cazador de Cerebros”. He won the National Ondas Radio Award for the “Catástrofe Ultravioleta” podcast.

Guillermo Peris-Ripollés has a PhD in Chemical Sciences from the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón, where he currently works as a tenured lecturer in the university’s Department of Computer Languages and Systems. His research focuses on the bioinformatics analysis of non-coding RNA, in particular repetitive elements and microRNAs, both in tumour cells and in 22q11 deletion syndrome. He collaborates with the LINE-1 Retro-element Biology group at the GENYO centre for genomics and oncology research in Granada. Since 2015 he has been devoting part of his time to writing informative articles for the Naukas.com portal, giving talks in “Desgranando Ciencia” and at various Naukas events.

Margarita Sánchez Romero (Madrid, 1971) is a senior lecturer in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, a communicator, and Vice-Rector for Outreach, Heritage and Institutional Relations at the University of Granada. Her main interest as a researcher is to assert the importance of the role of women and childhood in prehistoric societies. With other colleagues, she created the project ‘Pastwomen’, which gives visibility to the research in archaeology and history linked to the material culture of women. She is regular collaborator on the programme ‘El condensador de fluzo’, broadcast on the La 2 channel of the Spanish Radio and Television Corporation (RTVE). She received the ‘Carmen de Burgos’ Feminist Dissemination Award from the University of Málaga and was also awarded the ‘Granada: City of Science and Innovation’ Award, in the Women in Science category. She is author of Prehistorias de mujeres (Prehistories of Women), published by Destino.

Joaquín Sevilla, PhD in physics, is professor of electronic technology at the Public University of Navarre (UPNA). His current research focuses on the design of photonic structures for sensor and solar energy applications. He has also worked on technology geared towards people with disabilities. He directs the UPNA chair for the dissemination of scientific knowledge and culture, as well as the UPNA-UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country Master's Degree in Scientific Culture. Prior to that, he was Vice-Chancellor and Director of the G9 Shared Virtual Campus among other positions. Very active in science dissemination, he is a regular contributor to local radio and television stations, writes blogs and participates in YouTube videos. He has recently published “Los males de la ciencia” together with Juan Ignacio Pérez.

Engineer, musician and scientist in equal measure. Visiting Professor of the Statistics Department and researcher at the Big Data Institute of Carlos III University of Madrid, where he studies various topics such as the interpretability of machine learning algorithms and the application of data science to social network problems, collective behaviour, inequality and disinformation.