Juan Abella is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany and Geology at the Universitat de València. He obtained his PhD in Palaeontology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and has conducted research at institutions including the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC, the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, and the Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena (Ecuador), where he also worked as a lecturer and researcher.

His research focuses on evolutionary palaeobiology and the comparative and functional anatomy of carnivorous mammals, particularly ursids and other fossil Carnivora. He has participated in numerous national and international research projects and has led several palaeontological field campaigns that resulted in the discovery of new fossil vertebrate species.

He has authored more than fifty scientific publications, most of them in leading international peer-reviewed journals, and has carried out research stays at major museums and research institutions in the United States, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic.

Mar Ferrer Suay has a degree in Biology from the University of Valencia (2004-2009). She obtained a PhD in Biodiversity from the University of Barcelona with International Mention (2010-2014). She has completed three Master's degrees: in Biodiversity: conservation and evolution (2009-2010, UV), in Pest Control and Management (2015, UV) and in Secondary Education Teaching (2018-2019, UV). She was a postdoctoral researcher at the “American Museum of Natural History” (2016, New York, USA) and Juan de la Cierva-Formación at the University of Valencia (2016-2018).

She is specialist of the Charipinae subfamily, small wasps that act as hyperparasitoids of aphids and cause serious problems in biological control programs. She has completed eight predoctoral stays. She has described more than 50 species new to science and established a multitude of trophic relationships. She currently has a recognized six-year period of research and is PI of a Project of the Generalitat Valenciana focused on the use of molecular markers to define the limits between species and resolve the phylogeny of the group.

She teaches in the Biology Degree and in the Master of Biodiversity: Conservation and Evolution, of which she is also a member of the Academic Commission. She is also co-director of the Master's Degree in Pest Control and Management. She participates in activities such as BioGrau, External Practices, Biology Olympiads, Motivem and Projecte Natura.