Graduated in Physics from the Faculty of Sciences at the University Moulay Ismail (Meknes, Morocco) in 1996, he obtained his PhD in Physics in 2003 from the Université de Namur (Belgium), in the Department of Physics, where he carried out his doctoral thesis at the Laboratoire d’Analyse par Réactions Nucléaires (LARN). After completing his PhD, he undertook a postdoctoral stay at the Laboratoire de Physique des Matériaux Électroniques (LPME, Université de Namur), focusing on electronic and semiconductor materials.

His research activity is developed in the field of solid-state physics and materials science. His main research lines are structured in two axes: crystal growth of semiconductor materials (thin films, bulk materials, and nanostructures) using various synthesis and deposition techniques, and materials characterization, employing structural, microstructural, and chemical techniques such as XRD, HRXRD, SEM, and HRTEM. In addition, he conducts other characterization studies in collaboration with different research groups.

He is currently the head and specialist in high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) at the Central Service for Experimental Research Support (SCSIE) of the University of Valencia, collaborating with several research groups.

He is author and co-author of more than 80 scientific publications in indexed international journals and has participated in numerous conferences and national and international research projects. He also carries out extensive university teaching activities in areas related to physics, materials science, and advanced characterization techniques.

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I studied Chemistry at the Universities of Alicante and Valencia, Spain, where I graduated with a distinction. In 1997, I obtained a Doctorate in Chemistry with Cum Laude from the University of Valencia. In my thesis, under the supervision of Dr Francisco Estruch, I characterised a new gene from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which encodes a protein involved in the genetic response to different environmental signals. During my PhD, I spent 5 months at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (USA) in the laboratory of Dr Kyle Cunningham, where I completed part of my studies. From 1998 to 2001 I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vienna (Austria) in the laboratory of Dr Gustav Ammerer, funded by a long-term EMBO fellowship. During this time we discovered that the yeast MAPK Hog1, homologous to human p38, when activated in response to stress, binds to numerous genes in the nucleus and promotes the cell's transcriptional response. Our results were published in Molecular Cell, and during a second postdoctoral period at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain) in the laboratory of Dr Francesc Posas, I was able to continue this project and we published articles in the EMBO Journal and Nature showing that Hog1 bound to genes recruits specific transcription factors and RNA polymerase II to activate transcription.

My career as an independent researcher began at the end of 2003, when I obtained a contract from the competitive Spanish Ramón y Cajal programme and returned to the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Valencia. In 2009, I was appointed as a tenured university professor. In 2011 I was a visiting researcher at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, where I started collaborating with Dr Per Sunnerhagen, and since 2023 I have been a full professor at the University of Valencia. I lead the Eukaryotic Gene Expression: from DNA to Protein (EGE: DtoP) group, where we study gene expression with an integrated approach to the different stages, mainly gene transcription and mRNA degradation and translation. In recent years, we have focused our efforts on the function and targets of the translational elongation factor eIF5A, an evolutionarily conserved factor essential in all eukaryotic cells and implicated in diseases such as cancer, viral infection and ageing. In recent years, we have described the peptide motifs under the control of eIF5A, found new target proteins in yeast and mammalian cells, such as formins and collagens, that require eIF5A for their synthesis, and unravelled a molecular mechanism by which eIF5A controls mitochondrial function. Most of our work is done in collaboration with national and international scientific groups and are the result of the efforts of many PhD, Master's and graduate students.

As a summary of my research, I have published around half a hundred scientific articles, I have presented more than 60 communications at conferences, I have given invited lectures at different research centres in Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Sweden, I have directed 13 national or local research projects and I have participated in another 10 projects, 3 of them international, I am currently a secondary proposer of the European action COST Translacore. I am a member of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM) and of the national research networks RNA Life and Spanish Yeast Network (REDIL). I also regularly review scientific manuscripts in journals such as Nature Communications, NAR or PNAS, among others. I am an editor of the journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology and I regularly carry out evaluation tasks for national bodies such as the National Agency for Evaluation and Prospective Studies (ANEP) and the Andalusian Agency for Knowledge (DEVA-AAC), and international bodies such as the European Commission and national evaluation agencies, private foundations or universities in Poland, Uruguay, Belgium, Sweden, the UK or Austria. I have also been actively involved in teaching, management and training activities at the University of Valencia, where I have supervised doctoral theses, master's and bachelor's theses and many undergraduate laboratory placements.

I have combined the tasks of researcher and professor with those of mother. I have had two interruptions in my work due to the birth and bringing up of my daughter (2005) and son (2010).

Finally, I participate in the tasks of scientific dissemination to society through articles at different levels, interviews with local newspapers or television stations, lectures in highschools and primary schools, and the promotion of research among students, especially girls, through lectures and experiments in schools.

Código ORCID: 0000-0003-1472-2373

Researcher ID: F-7849-2016

Scopus Author ID: 6603311983

Pau Arroyo Mañez has been a Tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Organic Chemistry at the University of Valencia since 2023 and has served as Head of the Department since March 2024. He holds a PhD in Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry and completed his doctoral thesis in computational chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Luis R. Domingo and Prof. María Teresa Picher, focusing on the study of reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry, with particular emphasis on cycloaddition reactions.

He carried out his postdoctoral research at the University of Buenos Aires (2008–2013) under a CONICET postdoctoral fellowship, working on the computational modeling of proteins of biomedical interest. In 2013, he joined the CONICET Scientific Researcher Career, and in 2015 he was promoted to Associate Researcher, a position he held until 2019. His research during this period focused on the modeling of organic chemical processes and the rational design of drugs, while also contributing to the training of early-career researchers.

In 2019, he joined the University of Valencia as an Assistant Professor and became a member of the MODeLiC research group, where he has conducted research on molecular sensors for the detection of drugs used in drug-facilitated crimes and on nanosystems for the controlled release of drugs in hypoxic environments. In 2023, he was appointed Tenured Associate Professor.

He has published 38 scientific articles (including 3 review articles), 2 book chapters, and more than 50 contributions to national and international conferences. He has served as principal investigator on 3 competitive research projects and has participated in approximately 20 additional projects. He holds three recognized teaching quinquenniums and three research sexenniums awarded by ANECA. He is a founding partner of the spin-off company OpticalSens, dedicated to the development of chemical sensors with social impact through its Celentis product line.

His research interests include chromofluorogenic sensors, theranostic nanosystems, and the rational design of enzyme inhibitors.

Born in Vinaròs (1961). Professor of Genetics at the School of Biological Sciences. He got a degree in Biological Sciences (Biochemistry) and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Valencia, with an extraordinary doctorate award.
His scientific career began as a predoctoral fellow of the Generalitat Valenciana at the University of Valencia. He did a two-year postdoctoral stay in the laboratory of Prof. Francisco J. Ayala from the University of California at Irvine (USA), and short stays as a visiting professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, and at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He was a researcher for 14 years at the “Cavanilles” Institute for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, of the University of Valencia, and in the last eight years, he has been a researcher in the Systems Biology of yeasts of biotechnological interest Group at the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA), CSIC, through an agreement between  CSIC and the University of Valencia.
During his research career, he has worked in different lines of research such as the molecular evolution of Drosophila, the evolution of RNA viruses, and the role of chaperonins in bacterial endosymbiosis. In recent years, his research work has focused on the study, through comparative genomics and the analysis of 'omic' data, of the molecular mechanisms involved in the generation of genetic innovations that explain the adaptation of yeasts of the genus Saccharomyces in fermentative environments, responsible for their properties of biotechnological interest.
He has participated in 36 competitive research projects, of which 12 as principal investigator. He is the author of more than 130 articles in international journals indexed in the Science Citation Index. He has mentored 15 doctoral theses, supervised 4 postdoctoral researchers, and has been recognized for 6 six-year years periods of research.
His teaching activity currently focuses on subjects in the degrees in Biology and Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, in addition to the master's degree in R&D in Biotechnology and Biomedicine. He participated in the creation of the Master's Degree in Bioinformatics, being a member of its academic coordination committee for more than five years. He has 6 recognized five-year teaching periods. He was a member of the Senate of the University of Valencia and the faculty board of the School of Biological Sciences, during different periods.[Biography, English version]

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Doctor in Statistics and Optimization from the University of Valencia (extraordinary doctorate award in Mathematics). He has taught in Discrete and Continuous Optimization and Applied Statistics for more than a decade and has been a tutor for 15 final degree and master's degree projects.

His main line of research, which began with his doctoral studies, has been the development of combinatorial optimization models and algorithms to solve real problems in the logistics and maritime transport sector, specifically in the problems of assigning berths to ships and the planning of dock cranes. Their results are current as part of the state of the art in different variants of these problems. He has also addressed packaging problems, among which a real container problem proposed by Renault for a EURO ESICUP group competition stands out, in which he won one of the prizes, along with the rest of the research team. He is also currently working on other lines of research, developing exact decomposition methods for graph problems, optimization algorithms for airport allocation problems and optimal planning methods for the distribution of goods using drones.

ORCID: 0000-0002-0597-1741

ScopusID: 56708774900

I obtained my PhD in Biology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 1989, carrying out my doctoral thesis at the Instituto Cajal (CSIC). I subsequently held a position as Assistant Professor at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), from where I moved in 1993 to the University of California, San Francisco as a Fulbright and Human Frontier Science Program Organization postdoctoral fellow, as well as a research assistant. During this period, I studied the essential functions of neurotrophic factors, making significant contributions that were published in leading scientific journals and later incorporated into major neuroscience textbooks.

In 1998, I joined the Universitat de València (UV), where I have been Full Professor of Cell Biology since 2008, and where I have since coordinated the Molecular Neurobiology group (NEUROMOL; GIUV2017-370). In addition to my own laboratory, this group integrates several research teams led by independent female investigators, whose recruitment and consolidation I have actively supported. As an independent investigator in Spain, my research has focused on the biology of the neural stem cell (NSC) niche in the adult brain. My group has contributed, among other advances, to establishing blood vessels as a key component of neurogenic niches, demonstrating that NSC quiescence is an actively regulated state, identifying non-canonical functions of cell cycle regulators in NSC maintenance, and elucidating the roles of cell adhesion and inflammation in NSC regulation—fundamental aspects with clear relevance to our understanding of brain ageing and repair.

My entire scientific career has been devoted to the field of neurobiology, in which I have published more than 130 research articles, a significant number of them in leading international journals. With an h-index of 51 and over 19,000 citations (an average of 113 citations per article), I rank among the top 2% of most highly cited scientists worldwide (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918). I have led more than forty competitive research projects funded at the national and regional levels, as well as by private foundations, including an ERC Advanced Grant awarded in 2022. My group has been part of the Spanish Cell Therapy Network, in which I served on the management board, is a member of the Biomedical Research Networking Center in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), where I currently serve as Deputy Director, and has been recognized as a Prometeo Excellence Research Group by the Generalitat Valenciana. In addition, my group is part of the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine of the UV, of which I am currently Director.

I have served on the governing board of the International Society of Differentiation and of the Spanish Societies for Neuroscience, Gene and Cell Therapy, and Developmental Biology. Since 2013, I have been an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). In 2014, I was selected by the Botín Foundation–Banco Santander to participate in its highly selective science program aimed at promoting technology transfer, and in 2015 I received the “Investigació i Desenvolupament” award from the Universitat de València. In 2024, I was awarded the Spanish National Research Prize in the Santiago Ramón y Cajal category (Biology), and in 2025 I received the Honorary Plaque of the Spanish Association of Scientists, as well as honorary membership of the Spanish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

I have served and continue to serve on numerous scientific committees, including external advisory boards of several research institutes (DECXS-UPF, as Chair since 2010; IIS Hospital Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS) 2013–2019; Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience since 2013; FINBA–Principality of Asturias 2013–2018; Instituto Cajal 2015–2020; CIMUS-USC since 2015; CMRB since 2016; IMIM since 2019; IBiS since 2020; Hospital de la Princesa since 2020; GENYO since 2021; IBMB 2020–2024; IUBM 2021–2024; IBGM 2023–2024; Alicante Institute of Neurosciences 2023–2024; NeuroUB since 2025). I am currently a member of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the CSIC and of the Scientific and Technical Council of the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI). In addition, I serve on the jury of the Banco Sabadell Foundation Award for Biomedical Research and the For Women in Science Award (L’Oréal–UNESCO program), and I am a trustee of the Carmen and Severo Ochoa Foundation and of the Príncipe Felipe Research Center. From 2018 to 2024, I served as Chair of the Biosciences and Biotechnology area of the AEI.

I have also carried out an extensive teaching activity. I chaired the committee responsible for the creation of the Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences (2008–2014) and participated in the committee that established the Master’s degree in R&D in Biotechnology and Biomedicine (2016–2018), in addition to serving on the committee of the PhD Program in Neurosciences (2006–2016) at the UV. Numerous young researchers have been trained in my laboratory: I have supervised more than twenty doctoral theses and mentored over twenty postdoctoral researchers. In terms of science outreach, I regularly participate in talks at secondary schools, lectures within the UV’s Unisocietat outreach program, and I have given a TEDx talk.

Dr. García-Murria is a specialist in protein biochemistry with extensive interdisciplinary experience in biochemistry, molecular biology, proteomics, cell biology, and microbiology. She completed her doctoral thesis in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Valencia, during which she conducted two research stays at the Uppsala Biomedical Center of Uppsala University. Subsequently, she held a four-year postdoctoral position in the Proteomics Service at the Prince Felipe Research Center of Valencia. Upon returning to the University of Valencia, she initially worked in the area of Plant Molecular Biology and eventually joined the Membrane Proteins Laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She currently conducts her research activities focusing on the biogenesis, insertion, folding, and assembly of membrane proteins in the lipid membrane, as well as the role of transmembrane segments of human or viral proteins in apoptotic processes.

In the academic field, has been involved in university teaching since her thesis. She achieved the highest rating of excellence, scoring (200/200), in both the teaching quality evaluations as university professor, conducted from (2002-2018) and (2019-2023) by the National Agency for Evaluation and Acreditation (ANECA). Every year, she participates in several courses to improve her professional skills and teaching abilities. Since 2016, she has participated in the Motivem ideas competition, aimed at enhancing student employability through the motivating action of the teaching staff. Additionally, she is the president of the Biotechnology Undergraduate Thesis Committee and currently serves as the Secretary of the Faculty of Biological Sciences at the University of Valencia.

I have a degree in Chemistry specialising in Biochemistry from the Universitat de València (UV, 1994). I spent 5 months in the Goerlaeus laboratories of the University of Leiden (Netherlands). After graduating, I joined the Department of Genetics of the UV, where I did my doctoral thesis with an FPI Scholarship from the Generalitat Valenciana, obtaining my doctorate in 1999. During that period, I made a short stay (1996) at the Institute of Biotechnology of Cuernavaca (Mexico). I have done postdoctoral stays in different centers of recognized prestige, IATA (CSIC) (1999). Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (UV) (1999-2002) and EMBL (Grenoble, France, 2002-2004), with a Specialization Scholarship in International Organizations. Later I joined the Department of Genetics of the UV, with a postdoctoral fellowship Carmen and Severo Ochoa (2007-2009) and from 2009 to 2012 with a contract as a Senior Research Technician. In 2012 I competed and obtained a position as Associate Professor Dr and in 2017 as University Professor.

TEACHING ACTIVITY: Since 1996 I have taught in 21 different subjects, covering undergraduate or undergraduate students from second to master's degree. I have taught these classes in 2 degrees (Biology and Chemistry) and in 6 different degrees: Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences (· BCB, 5), Biotechnology (BT, 5), Biology (Biol, 1), Double Degree Law-Criminology and Degree in Criminology (DC or C, 4) and in two master's degrees: Master in Molecular, Cellular and Genetic Biology (1) and Master in Bioinformatics (2).  I am currently coordinator of external internships of students in companies for the Degree in Biotechnology and I have the Quality Mention as a tutor of these practices. Since March 2018 I am Vice-Dean of Innovation and Quality of the Faculty of Biology. I have directed 13 final degree projects in the degrees of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Biotechnology and Criminology, 6 Master's Final Projects, and the Doctoral Thesis of Dr. López-Galiano: Identification of miRNAs with predictive value as biomarkers of biotic and abiotic stress in plants of agronomic interest. 26.03.2021 and I am co-directing another. I have recognized three five-year teaching periods

EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION ACTIVITIES: Since 2018 I have participated in 12 teaching innovation projects with 6 participations in congresses or educational days

RESEARCH CAREER: In my research career I have mainly addressed the field of pathogen-host interactions from a multitude of approaches, both in terms of the range of organisms (bacteria-insects, phages-bacteria, insects-plants, viruses-humans) and the type of approach, from purely molecular and basic research (phage structures, protein-protein interactions or biochemical characterization of the mode of action of toxins) to those of clinical or field application.  I have recognized three six-year periods of research. In 2014, I participated in the Potato Beetle genome annotation project, within the i5k initiative: genome sequencing of 5000 arthropods.

TRANSFER ACTIVITY: I am co-inventor of two patents: P0201030569- Increase in the expression of recombinant sequences in eukaryotes and ES27176855- Peptide and pharmaceutical compositions of the same for use as an antimicrobial and in the treatment of cancer. I have participated in the Innosalud (2020) and Innotransfer (2020,  2021) programs  .

PEER REVIEW AND EVALUATION ACTIVITIES Since 2009 I have participated as a reviewer in: Letters in  Applied Microbiology, Journal of Applied Microbiology, Cells, Plant Cell Reports, IJMS, BAOJ Biotechnology ... I participate as an external Evaluator for the National Agency for Evaluation and Foresight (ANEP) since 2015, for the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE) since 2019 (21 business projects evaluated) and for the UV-Ministry of Universities, for the evaluation of the University Requalification System program (2021).

DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES. Member of the Organizing Committee of Climathon-Burjassot 2019 (Climate Kick-UV), and Hackaton AgrotecUV (2021). Member of the organizing committee and the scientific congress  (Innocampus-Explora project) Innocovid19 (2020) and Innofuturo (2021 ).

M.L. Gil graduated in Pharmacy at the University of Valencia (UV) in 1985. She received a PhD in 1989 for research on the identification of cell-wall proteins of Candida albicans at the Microbiology Department (UV). As a post-doctoral fellow she joined Didier Fradelizi Immunoloy laboratory at the Institute Gustave Roussy, in Paris. During the post-doctoral she graduated in Immunology at the Pasteur Institute and also participated in research that led to the identification of a new human leukocyte molecule (CD82). Back in Spain, in 1994, she was appointed as Assitant Professor, and in 1999, as Associate Professor, at the University of Valencia. In 2004 she started an independent research group that focused on the antifungal innate immunity and was promoted to Full Professor at the University of Valencia in 2011.    

Since her return to Spain, her research has focused on studying the pathogen/host interaction during candidiasis. In the first years, the research focused on the characterization of virulence factors of the fungus, then to address the study of the immune response, and specifically the participation of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) in the recognition of C. albicans, Since 2007, it has extended the study of the participation of TLRs in the interaction of C. albicans with the immune system, to hematopoietic stem cells, following the discovery that these cells express functional TLRs. Her main line of current research examines how the activation of PRRs in stem cells and hematopoietic progenitors, induces myeloid differentiation as well as in the implications in the phenotype of the macrophages they generate and in the protection against candidiasis; the results obtained show that the "memory" of innate immunity affects not only monocytes and macrophages but also the progenitors.

Jorge completed his MSc in Chemistry at the University of Valencia, undertaking his last academic year at the University of Salford (United Kingdom) in 2005. Then, he began his PhD in Chemical Sciences at the University of Valencia under the supervision of Prof. García-España in Supramolecular & Bioinorganic Chemistry. He combined his PhD with a technician position at Torres Film Plastic. In 2008, he secured a FPU (University Professor Training) grant of the Spanish Science Ministry and focused in his PhD until obtain the qualification of Summa cum Laude in February 2013. He developed polyamine-based molecules capable to tightly bind zinc, copper and manganese as antioxidant mimic agents and nucleic acid drugs. During his PhD, he spent several periods in the groups of Dr. Ivo Piantanida (Ruder Boskovic Institut, Croatia), Prof. Fernando Pina (New University of Lisbon, Portugal) and Prof. Philip A. Gale (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) where he complemented his background skills in Supramolecular Chemistry with different techniques and topics.

From 2013-2015, he carried out two post-docs in Prof. Kristin Bowman-James’s group in the University of Kansas (USA) and Dr. Marie-Paule Teulade-Fichou´s group in Institute Curie (France). He studied anion encapsulation in macrocycles and cryptands and developed novel molecules to target unusual DNA/RNA structures such as hairpins, mismatches, triplexes or G-quadruplexes. In April 2015, he moved to the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London (United Kingdom) as a Newton Fellow of the Royal Society and British Academy associated with Prof. Ramón Vilar´s team. He developed novel tools to visualise G-quadruplexes in cells by using cutting-edge microscopy and metal complexes as efficient anticancer drugs. At the end of 2017, he sought for new challenges and complete his expertise in the nucleic acid field by enrolling the European Institute of Chemistry and Biology (France) associated in the teams of Dr. Valerie Gabelica and Dr. Jean-Louis Mergny as IdEx Fellow. He investigated the application of fluorescent molecular probes to detect and visualise G-quadruplexes in live cells.

In 2019, he obtained a Distinguished Researcher position back in the University of Valencia at the Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol) through the GenT program of the Valencian Government. His research interests cover the design and preparation of small molecules to target non-canonical nucleic acid structures, the development of tools to visualise these structures in cells, the application of inorganic complexes to study biological processes and the biotechnological applications of nucleic acid super-structures.
 

Vicente Herranz Pérez holds a PhD in Neuroscience from the Universitat de València, where he defended his doctoral thesis, carried out at the Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia (CSIC). After a postdoctoral period at the Spanish Network for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), he joined the Universitat de València, where he is currently Associate Professor in the area of Functional Biology at the Department of Cell Biology, Functional Biology and Physical Anthropology.

His research focuses on adult neurogenesis and neural stem cells, with particular interest in neuronal migration and populations of immature neurons. His work combines experimental and comparative approaches across different species, including the human brain.

In teaching, he is involved in courses related to physiology in several undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at the Universitat de València. He currently serves as mobility coordinator for the Biology degree and participates in teaching innovation initiatives aimed at active learning.

Enrique Lanuza holds a Degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Valencia (1993), with an Extraordinary Degree Award. He did his Doctorate studies between the Dept. of Animal Biology from the Univ. of Valencia (1993-95) and the Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology from the State University of New York, with a scholarship from "la Caixa" Foundation (1995-97), completing a doctoral thesis on comparative neurobiology and brain evolution (Extraordinary Doctorate Award,1998). In 1999 he joined the laboratory of Professor Joseph LeDoux (Center for Neural Science, New York University) as a post-doctoral fellow of the Fulbright program, where he investigated on the neural circuits involved in emotional learning. In January 2000 he joined the Dept. of Cell Biology of the Univ. of Valencia, where he is currently a University Professor. His research focuses on the neural circuits responsible for social and sexual behaviors, such as sexual attraction, aggression and maternal behavior. He has published more than 80 articles in scientific journals included in international databases such as Web of Science or PubMed, as well as several book chapters in publishers such as Springer, Academic Press or Elsevier. He has been Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Biological Sciences, and is currently Coordinator of the Doctorate in Neurosciences at the University of Valencia.

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Óscar Maciá has a degree in Physical Sciences from the University of Valencia (2002) and a Doctor in Toric Physics from the University of Valencia (2007). He currently works as a university professor (2023), assigned to the Department of Mathematics (Area of Geometry and Topology) of the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Valencia. He is a member of the UV Geometric Analysis research group (GAGUV).
His research deals primarily with differential geometry, often inspired by problems arising in theoretical physics. Generally, it focuses on the study of varieties endowed with some additional structure (Riemannian, complex, etc.) defined through the action of a Lie group. Topics covered include: quaternionic and exceptional geometry, harmonic maps, manifolds with special holonomy, spinors, differential operators, and complex geometry.
In these areas he has participated in multiple national and international research projects.
 

Ferran Palero holds a PhD in Biology (University of Barcelona, 2008) and an MSc in Mathematical Research (UPV, 2009). He has completed postdoctoral research in Austria (Institute of Science and Technology, 2009-2011), France (National Institute of Agronomic Research, 2012-2014), Blanes (Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes, 2014-2016) and Poland (University of Lodz, 2017-2019). He is currently developing his BIOPACKS research project as a "CIDEGENT" Researcher at the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (ICBIBE, University of Valencia). The BIOPACKS project (BIOdiversity Patterns of Crustacea from Karstic Systems) focuses on the study of groundwater aquatic fauna incorporating new molecular methods in order to discover molecular adaptations and new enzymes with potential biotechnological application.

Robin Turnbull is a researcher in high-pressure physics at the University of Valencia, working on the synthesis and characterisation of novel materials.