Susana Magallón

Susanna is fascinated by blue flowers. Among the 350 thousand species of flowering plants, only very few groups have figured out how to make blue flowers. Susana is dedicated to studying how flowering plants acquired so many species, and what the structure of flowers has to do with it. She studies this by combining information from living species with the fossil record. She is currently the director of the Institute of Biology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and given her important career, she is one of the most recognized biologists worldwide, and for this reason she has been invited by the Royal Society in London and the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, to become a member of these prestigious organizations.

Luci Romero

Invitado de Honor

(1980, Cabra, Córdoba) is a cultural manager, writer and (ex)bookseller, with a degree in Art History, a Master's in Conservation and Management of Cultural Heritage, and a Postgraduate in Literature Theory and Literary Critique (Universidad de Valencia). For nine years, she co-owned the Bartleby bookstore in Valencia.

As a poet, she is the author of the books: Autovía del Este, El diluvio (Amargord), Western (Delirio) and El tiempo de la quema (Ejemplar único). She also appears in the anthology Sais.Diecinueve poetas desde La Bella Varsovia (La Bella Varsovia). She was the co-editor of the Flechas de Atalanta booklet, which features poetry and illustrations, and in 2010, she won the La Voz+joven Award from La Casa Encendida. In 2023, she published the essay on the writing of nature or literature, El arte de contar la naturaleza.Un acercamiento a la nature writing (Barlin Libros). In 2024, she published the poetry book No sabe la semilla de qué mano ha caído from Eolas publishers.

She has featured in festivals such as Letras Verdes and Siberiana. In 2023, she received the inaugural Literature and Environment Residency from the National Center for Environmental Education (CENEAM) within the National Parks organization.

She currently lives in Valencia.

Other activities involving the participant:

Written with ink and chlorophyll

María Emilia Beyer

She is an expert in telling stories about science in exhibitions, radio, television and written media. She loves reading and writing; she is the author of nine popular science books for children and young people. She loves to design interactive exhibitions, such as Ciencia con sabor a chocolate and Mujeres inventoras. She works tirelessly to bring girls closer to science; she has been a master mentor of the New York Academy of Sciences for the international program 1000 Girls, 1000 Futures. Internationally, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) and of the Board of Directors of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) for Mexico. Since 2020 she has held the position of Director of Universum, the Science Museum of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her favorite role in life is to be Mily's mom.

Other activities involving the participant:

The language of plants and animals
Literature between dogs and cats
Wild sex
Mental health in the virtual world
Space science