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

América Valenzuela

Es química y periodista. Su curiosidad por entender cómo funciona hasta el menor detalle la condujo a estudiar ciencias químicas y sus ganas de contarlo la dirigieron hacia el periodismo y la divulgación. Lleva media vida escribiendo para periódicos (El Mundo, El Correo y El Independiente), charlando en la radio (RNE y Onda Cero), informando en la televisión (Canal 24h, La 2, Movistar) y presentando actos vinculados con la ciencia, el medioambiente y la salud. Admiradora incansable de la naturaleza, de mirada asombrada y aventurera de sofá es, además, la autora de Ciencia al cubo (Temas de Hoy). Actualmente reside en Ciudad de México.

Ferran Adrià

14 de mayo de 1962, Barcelona, España. Realizó sus estudios básicos en Barcelona. Su pasión era el futbol, y su relación con la cocina fue casi nula en esta etapa.
De los 15 a los 21 años (1977-1983)
En 1977 ingresó en el Instituto Politécnico de la Merced para cursar estudios administrativos, pero en 1980, a los 18 años, dejó atrás sus estudios y se introdujo progresivamente en el mundo profesional de la cocina, lo cual le permitió adquirir experiencia a la hora de asumir responsabilidades, ya que por primera vez él era el encargado de una cocina. 
De los 22 a los 49 años (1984-2011)
Con 22 años, en abril de 1984, entró a elBulli como jefe de partida; en 1986 fueron nombrados él y Christian Lutaud jefes de cocina en tándem, posteriormente se convirtió en chef único de elBulli. A sus 28 años, en 1990, nació el Restaurante elBulli SL, una sociedad formada por Juli Soler y Ferran Adrià, en la que desarrollaron un modelo de negocio basado en consultorías y asesorías con empresas de la industria alimentaria, hotelería y restauración; una editorial propia y una empresa de catering, entre otros proyectos. Desde principios de los noventa se empezó a producir un cambio en la cocina de Ferran y elBullirestaurante, y junto con platos mediterráneos, comenzaron a aparecer una serie de conceptos, elaboraciones, técnicas y formatos de servicio nuevos, desarrollando un estilo de cocina propio que cambió el paradigma de la gastronomía.
Elbullifoundation
Una década después, el 30 de julio de 2011, elBullirestaurante cerró sus puertas para transformarse en elBullifoundation, que tiene como objetivo salvaguardar el legado de elBullirestaurante, compartir la experiencia en gestión e innovación y generar contenido de calidad para la restauración gastronómica: una herramienta de autoaprendizaje y educación valiosa para afianzar la gastronomía como disciplina académica.

La influencia transversal de Ferran Adrià
•Creador de nuevos conceptos y modelos de negocio que han generado influencia a distintos niveles
•Creador, con la Universidad de Harvard, del curso ciencia y cocina, un cambio de paradigma entre el mundo de la universidad y la gastronomía
•Embajador mundial de Telefónica desde 2010, con infinidad de proyectos relacionados con la innovación y la educación al máximo nivel: 
    Más de 700 conferencias alrededor del mundo para ofrecer una reflexión sobre el mundo de la transformación digital y la innovación
    Challenges: Ideas4Transformation, Hacking Bullipedia, Talentum, NFTs “La teoría de la evolución culinaria”
 

Camilo Aya

Colombiano de 52 años, con una trayectoria laboral de 30 años; y en Grupo Telefónica, de 20 años.
Ingeniero industrial por la Universidad de Los Andes de Bogotá, con una maestría en dirección de empresas por Columbia Business School, de Nueva York.
Se incorporó a Telefónica Colombia en 2003, en 2006 fue nombrado director de Estrategia, Regulación y Negocio Mayorista, y a partir de 2012 asumió como director de Marketing B2C de Telefónica en Colombia. Allí fue el responsable por el crecimiento en participación de ingresos en los negocios de prepago y pospago en el segundo mercado móvil más concentrado de Latinoamérica, luego del mexicano. Lideró el lanzamiento comercial de la red 4G y el desarrollo de los negocios fijos de banda ancha, TV y voz, así como el lanzamiento de los nuevos servicios de fibra óptica e IPTV en Colombia. 

Actualmente es presidente ejecutivo y CEO de Telefónica México desde septiembre de 2019, y presidente del Consejo Directivo de Fundación Telefónica Movistar México. 

Constantino Macías

He is a biologist who has always liked fish, frogs and birds. He studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and later in England. He has worked for more than 30 years at the Institute of Ecology of the UNAM, where he has studied the sexual behavior of fish, frog calls and the way birds adapt to living in cities. Currently, he is in Canada commissioned to direct the UNAM Canada, which does not prevent him from continuing to direct theses and conducting research projects at a distance.

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
The letters of the garden
Mental health in the virtual world
Space science

Leonardo López Luján

Es arqueólogo. Director del Proyecto Templo Mayor desde 1991, ha dedicado su vida al estudio de la política, la religión y el arte de las sociedades prehispánicas del centro de México, y a la historia de la arqueología en este país. Es miembro de la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, la Academia Mexicana de la Historia y la British Academy, así como miembro honorario de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Ciencias. En 2015 recibió el Shanghai Archaeology Forum Research Award. Ingresó a El Colegio Nacional el 15 de marzo de 2019.

Other activities involving the participant:

One Thousand Young People with Juan Luis Arsuaga

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma

(México, 1940)
Es un prominente arqueólogo mexicano que desde 1978 es el encargado de realizar las excavaciones en el Templo Mayor, axis mundi de la ciudad de Tenochtitlán, antigua capital del imperio mexica.  Realizó estudios en arqueología en la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia de la Ciudad de México y obtuvo una maestría en Ciencias Antropológicas con especialidad en Arqueología por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
 

Rosa M. Torres

Obtuvo el grado de doctora en astrofísica en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México  (UNAM); realizó una estancia posdoctoral en la Universidad de Bonn, y otra en la Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG). Es profesora investigadora de tiempo completo en la UdeG y SNI I; sus artículos en revistas internacionales arbitradas reúnen más de dos mil citas. Trabajó en astrometría de muy larga línea de base con estrellas jóvenes de baja masa para medir su distancia y conocer la dinámica de las nubes a las que pertenecen. Estudia la formación estelar y los campos magnéticos durante el nacimiento de las estrellas. Imparte charlas de divulgación en noches de estrellas y eventos astronómicos; ayuda en la organización, logística e impartición de eventos de divulgación. Además, ha realizado juegos y material didáctico para la divulgación de la astronomía en niños y jóvenes, por lo que le otorgaron el Premio estatal al Divulgador Joven en Michoacán, en 2009.

Alberto Nigoche

Doctor en ciencias físicas (astrofísica) por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Actualmente es investigador del Instituto de Astronomía y Meteorología de la Universidad de Guadalajara. Es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores en el Nivel II, y tiene el máximo nivel del programa de estímulos al desempeño docente de la Universidad de Guadalajara. Es fundador y coordinador del Coloquio Internacional de Astronomía Universo y Sociedad que se realiza cada año en la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara. Su principal campo de investigación es la formación y evolución de galaxias. Se dedica particularmente al estudio de la materia oscura y las relaciones estructurales de galaxias de distintos tipos morfológicos. En sus artículos publicados ha demostrado, entre otras cosas, que los parámetros de las relaciones estructurales de las galaxias de tipo temprano dependen del rango de magnitud en el que se considere la muestra. También ha encontrado que la materia oscura dentro de las galaxias de tipo temprano depende de la masa, del redshift y del medio ambiente.
 

Felipe Leal

Es arquitecto y académico. Su obra se enfoca al renglón cultural, educativo y del espacio público, reconocida a escalas nacional e internacional. Destacan los estudios realizados para pintores, escritores y su obra pública, como el Corredor Peatonal de Madero, la plaza y el Monumento a la Revolución, así como la recuperación de la Alameda Central. Director de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la UNAM (1997-2005) y profesor invitado a las principales universidades de América Latina, Norteamérica y Europa. Coordinó la gestión para la inscripción en la lista de Patrimonio Mundial de la Unesco a la Ciudad Universitaria de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Fue becario del Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (Fonca) (2005-2008). Miembro emérito de la Academia Nacional de Arquitectura, miembro y presidente del Seminario de Cultura Mexicana. En 2019 recibió el Premio Arte-Arquitectura por el Congreso de la Ciudad de México. Ingresó a El Colegio Nacional el 26 de abril de 2021.

Other activities involving the participant:

Conversations with Fernando González Gortázar. Reflections on urban art

Lynne M. Drummond

She is an internationally recognized British psychiatrist and researcher, who has been helping people with OCD for more than 40 years. She is also an honorary consultant psychiatrist at South West London and St George's NHS Trust, and a visiting professor at the School of Life and Medical Sciences, at the University of Hertfordshire. 
 
In addition to her roles as a doctor and teacher, she also works extensively with various organizations that offer support to OCD patients and their families, such as Triumph Over OCD and Phobias UK (TOP UK), OCD Action and OCD UK. 
 
In 2018 she published Obsessive Compulsive Disorders: All You Want to Know about OCD for People Living with OCD, Caregivers and Clinicians (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and The Royal College of Psychiatrists) with the intention of informing people with OCD, their families, friends and healthcare staff about OCD and how it should be treated. It was a success and, in 2019, she won the best seller award from the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Cambridge University Press.

Her book Everything You Need to Know About OCD, was published by Cambridge University Press, it is her fourth publication and the first to be translated into Spanish.

Liz Basáñez

She is a psychologist who graduated with honors from the Faculty of Psychology of the Anahuac University, Mexico. She has more than 30 years of national and international experience. She completed a master's degree in clinical psychology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She obtained the fellowship in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and anxiety disorders at the St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute (SLBMI) under the tutelage of Dr. Alec Pollard. She completed the Advanced BTTI at McLean OCD Institute, Belmont, Massachusetts. 
Liz (and Mexico sin Estreso®) are the only IOCDF approved supplier of the BTTI in Mexico. She is the Director of the Behavioral Therapy Training Institute (BTTI) online for Latin America of the IOCDF (International OCD Foundation). She is part of the Advisory Board of the Faculty of Psychology of the Anahuac University, Mexico. 
Participates in the Living Room Brigade team of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) in its annual congresses of TOC, USA. She is part of the staff from the Planning Committee of the TOC Conference online from the IOCDF. She is the creator of the diploma in cognitive therapy for anxiety disorders, taught at the Anáhuac University. She collaborates as an external cognitive-behavioral psychologist with the Embassy of the United States of America. She is the author of the book Y tus emociones, ¿qué dicen?´, Editorial Pax. She has participated in various radio and television programs  as a co-host and guest specialist in psychology and mental health issues. She founded and runs Mexico Sin Estreso®. First Cognitive Behavioral Center of Anxiety, OCD and Depression in Mexico (2001).

Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras

Invitado de Honor

Arsuaga has a PhD in Biological Sciences from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), where he teaches Paleontology. He is the director of the UCM-Carlos III Health Institute Mixed Center for Human Evolution and Behavior. Most of his scientific career has been dedicated to the sites of the Sierra de Atapuerca, which he co-directs. He is the scientific director of the Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos.

He has received numerous awards, including: Prince of Asturias for Scientific and Technical Research; Castile and León; Community of Madrid; Sent Soví; Sociedad Geográfica Española; Ciudad de Alcalá; COSCE a la Difusión de la Ciencia; Cruz del Mérito Medioambiental de España; Medalla de Plata de la Comunidad de Madrid; GHR von Koenigswald Lecture (Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt); “Drago de Oro” from the Ateneo de Cádiz; Zilarrerezko Luma from the Bilbao Book Fair.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, the Board of Directors of the Institut de Paléontologie Humaine in Paris, the Real Academia de Doctores de España, and the Reales Academias de Medicina de Zaragoza y de Andalucía Oriental.

He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Burgos, Polytechnic of Valencia and Zaragoza.

He has written hundreds of scientific publications, including eight papers in Science and ten in Nature. He has directed twenty-one doctoral theses.

His popular science books have been translated into multiple languages: Chosen species: the long march of human evolution, Neanderthal's necklace: in search of the first thinkers, Los aborígenes, Al otro lado de la niebla, Amalur. Green fire: the life force, from the atom to the mind, El reloj de Mr. Darwin, El primer viaje de nuestra vida, Breve historia de la Tierra con nosotros dentro, El sello indeleble, Vida. La gran historia, Life as told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal, La muerte contada por un sapiens a un neandertal and Nuestro cuerpo.

Other activities involving the participant:

One Thousand Young People with Juan Luis Arsuaga

Claudia Luna Fuentes

(México, 1969)

She holds a PhD in sciences and humanities for interdisciplinary development from the Autonomous University of Coahuila; a master's degree in history of contemporary society from the Ibero-American University Extension Saltillo, and a bachelor's degree in communication sciences from the Autonomous University of Coahuila. She has published among others, Los frutos del sol (MacMillan Castle, 2005) a children's book from the collection La Otra Escalera, included in the classroom library for preschool children. Her books of poems include Casa de Sol (FECA-Conaculta, 1995), Ruido de hormigas (Gatsby Ediciones, 2005), Carne para las flores, personal anthology (Aullido Libros, Spain 2011) and Donde la piel (Mantis Editores/Conarte, 2019). She appears among other anthologies, in Anuario de poesía mexicana (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2006), in Hacia un azul imposible. (CEPE-UNAM/El Tapiz del Unicornio, 2023) and in Semillas de nuestra tierra. Muestra ecopoética mexicana (Grupo de Investigaciones Poéticas de la Madre Tierra and Cactus del viento, 2023). She won the Manuel Acuña Municipal Poetry Prize in 2008. In poetry she received a scholarship from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (Fonca 2003-2004), stimuli as a young creator and as a creator with a career from the Faculty of Economics, Accounting and Administration (FECA) and the Stimulus Program for Artistic Creation and Development (PECDA) on several occasions. She was a fellow of the Regional Fund for Culture and the Arts (FORCA)-Northeast 2011-2012, in Lima, Peru, where she taught workshops on object poetry. She was the guest of honor of the Tangier International Festival 2013 in Morocco, where her poetry translated into Arabic was read. Some of her work has English, German, Portuguese and French versions. Among the magazines in which she has published, the contemporary poetry magazine of Valencia  21veintiúnversos stands out; and in Lichtungen, in the section Literature of the North of Mexico, her poems were translated by Christoph Janacs. She participated in the exhibition of the Contemporary Photography Program section Coahuila, Tasar el humor (Museo de las Artes Gráficas, 2018). She generated material poems for the Bergman Chair of the UNAM. Her translated poems were printed on the wall at the Cultural Institute of Mexico in Paris, accompanying sculptures by Avelina and Alejandro Fuentes Quezada in the exhibition Continuous Extinction (2021). Environmental photographs and video poems were exhibited at the Mohammed Drissi Gallery, in Tangier (2021). She participated in a literary table and in the Coahuilense visual art exhibition entitled Segar el mar with a visual poem, within the 49th Cervantino Festival (2022). A selection of sound poems worked around the poem “Piedra de Sol”, by Octavio Paz, were left to be heard at the Marie-José Tramini and Octavio Paz Memorial, at the San Ildefonso College, within the Nature and Poetry Festival 2023 organized by the Octavio Paz Extraordinary Chair. Part of her poetry has been translated in 2024 into Polish by the poet and novelist Julia Fiedorczuk. In June 2024 she was invited by the University of Warsaw to share her creative processes. Currently, Dr. Pawel Piszczatowski, from the Center for Environmental Humanities of the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Warsaw, works on an article about his acoustic-visual and material work. She works as director of scientific dissemination and projects at the Desert Museum, where she is a founding member.

Other activities involving the participant:

Poetry Room
Literature with eggs and machaca

Paco Calvo

Invitado de Honor

Professor of Philosophy of Science and the principal investigator at the Minimal Intelligence Laboratory (MINT Lab) at the Universidad de  Murcia (Spain). He specialized in the philosophy of cognitive science through a Fulbright scholarship in the late 90s (University of California, San Diego) and earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Glasgow in 2000.

His research interests broadly encompass cognitive sciences, with a special focus on plant intelligence, ecological psychology, and embodied cognitive science. His papers have appeared in Annals of Botany, Biology & Philosophy; The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science; Cognitive Science; Journal of the Royal Society, Plant, Cell & Environment; Plant Signaling & Behavior, and Trends in Plant Science, among other journals. He also co-edited the Handbook of Cognitive Science:An Embodied Approach (2008, Elsevier), the Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology (2009, Routledge) and The Architecture of Cognition (2014, MIT Press).

At MINT Lab, his research relies on time-lapse photography to observe plants’ navigational abilities and explore the theoretical foundations of various interpretations of adaptive plant behavior. Currently, Paco Calvo is funded by the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation to investigate how to mitigate plant jet lag in common beans with phytomelatonin and to gather behavioral evidence of plant sentience. His research has also been funded by the Office of Naval Research-Global.

In 2016, he received funding from Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports for a sabbatical stay at the EIDYN Research Centre and the Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, where he began work on his book Planta Sapiens with Natalie Lawrence (2023, Seix Barral).

Other activities involving the participant:

Panel 4: The Communication of Science

José Luis Navarrete

Es profesor de taxonomía y artrópodos e investigador del Centro de Estudios en Zoología (CZUG) de la Universidad de Guadalajara (México). Su doctorado lo realizó en sistemática y ecología de insectos por parte de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Su investigación se centra en la taxonomía y ecología de coleópteros asociados a materia orgánica en descomposición, particularmente de las Staphylinidae (coleópteras) y Scarabaeoidea. Cuenta con más de 160 publicaciones en revistas especializadas como Journal of Natural History, Zootaxa, The Coleopterists Bulletin, Canadian Entomologists, Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, Ecology, Nature Communications, Science, entre otras. Es editor de la revista especializada de entomología, Dugesiana, que edita la Universidad de Guadalajara desde hace 31 años. Cuenta con una veintena de libros, además de publicaciones de divulgación científica, con énfasis en los insectos.

Como parte de su trabajo de investigación ha publicado libros especializados que son referentes a escalas nacional e internacional, entre ellos: Guía Ilustrada para los Géneros de Staphylinidae (coleóptera) de México, obra publicada en colaboración con sus colegas: Alfred F. Newton, Margaret K. Thayer, James S. Ashe y Donald S. Chandler. Su libro de divulgación Historias de artrópodos recibió el apoyo por parte del Sindicato de Trabajadores Académicos de la Universidad de Guadalajara. 

Actualmente es el director del Centro de Estudios en Zoología y el coordinador del Cantinero Científico, programa de divulgación de la Librería Carlos Fuentes de la Universidad de Guadalajara.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Arthropod stories: the importance of insects

Sandra Zetina Ocaña

She is a researcher at the Institute of Aesthetic Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is part of the National Science Laboratory for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (LANCIC) and the National System of Researchers (CONACYT) Level 1. Her field of study is Mexican modern art of the first half of the twentieth century, creative processes and the role of materiality in art. She holds a PhD and a master's degree in art history from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of UNAM, and a degree in restoration of movable property from the National School of Conservation, Restoration and Museography Manuel M del Castillo Negrete ENCRyM of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). She is a professor of the postgraduate course in art history at the UNAM, and has written more than 30 specialized articles, papers and chapters in books on Mexican art, published in Mexico and abroad. She has curated exhibitions at the National Museum of Art (The matter of art, 2004), the Siqueiros Public Art Hall (Low viscosity: the birth of fascism and other solutions, 2006), the Carrillo Gil Museum, and Americas Society (Tiempos violentos /Shattered glass), in New York City. Her current line of research deals with the production of Diego Rivera during his last years in Paris (1914-1921) and his first mural works, especially Creation (1922-1923).

Diana Quintero González

She has a bachelor's degree in chemistry and a master's degree in chemical sciences from the University of Guadalajara; she completed a master's degree in the diagnosis of the state of conservation of historical heritage from Pablo de Olavide University of Seville, and graduated under the direction of Sandra Zetina through the research work "Material study of the mural Alfareros tonaltecas, Carlos Orozco Romero 1923”. She has been teaching applied chemistry to restoration at the School of Conservation and Restoration of the West (ECRO) since 2017, and has been a scientific advisor to the seminar mural painting workshop participating in the diagnosis of the works of “Prometheus of María José Servín”, “The sciences and arts of Alfonso Mario Medina”, the decorative painting of the Casa Zuno and the mural paintings of “Atanasio Monroy” located in the Rectory building of the University Center for Exact Sciences and Engineering (CUCEI), among others. She has also been an advisor to the seminar on cultural heritage of metal and the easel painting workshop. She has participated in the direction of several bachelor's theses in the restoration of movable property, and is currently a member of the group of studies on painting and materiality of the Regional Museum of Guadalajara, where she contributes with the material study of painting on panel and sheet.

José Luis Ruvalcaba Sil

He studied physics at the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and a doctorate in science at the Laboratory of Analysis by Nuclear Reactions, in Namur, Belgium, from 1993 to 1997. Since October 1997 he has been a researcher at the Institute of Physics of the UNAM. Among his research the non-destructive characterization in situ of archaeological and historical objects and materials for which he has developed specialized instrumentation stands out. He has consolidated a non-destructive analysis research network for studies in art, archaeology and history in which groups from Mexico from the UNAM, the National Institute of Anthropology and History and Fine Arts, among other institutions, participate. He has participated in a relevant way in the study of objects and collections in the most important collections and historical sites of Mexico. Since 2014 he has been the coordinator of the National Laboratory of the National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technology (Conahcyt), of Sciences for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (LANCIC), and was a member of the Academic Technical Committee of the Conahcyt National Network on the same subject. With regard to scientific production, he has published numerous indexed research articles, chapters in books and memoirs in extenso (more than 200). He has presented more than 500 papers at congresses, most of them international; he has directed 51 theses (12 D, 13 M, 26 L), and he has participated in various dissemination activities. He has directed 30 research projects funded by the Conahcyt, the UNAM and other institutions. He has been a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2004 and Level III of the National System of Researchers of the Conahcyt since 2018.