I am responsible for dissemination and scientific culture at the Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies (IMEDEA UIB-CSIC). My training and professional career are marked by transversality and a strong interest in scientific knowledge. My multidisciplinary skills have allowed me to alternate between outreach, collaborative research, teaching, project management and communication, working in different cultural contexts and with special emphasis on the use of scientific concepts, values and terminology to promote social empowerment. This background led to the co-creation of the Pelopantón initiative, a project with a remarkable impact in the field of science popularisation. My work has resulted in published science outreach publishing projects, educational and citizen science apps and FECYT projects. I have coordinated institutional projects of national and international impact; I have written popular science articles; I have organised activities of general interest through multidisciplinary methodologies; I have developed educational material, most of them available online on national platforms and European portals.

Workshop in wich she participates: Research fair

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Department: IMEDEA UIB-CSIC

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Research Group: IMEDEA UIB-CSIC

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Lines of Research: Dissemination and scientific culture

PhD in Sciences from the University of Cádiz, Cum Laude mention and Extraordinary Doctorate Award in 2015. Throughout my pre and postdoctoral training I have been linked to different international institutions, such as the University of Washington (USA), the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (Japan), the Université de Liège (Belgium), the L'OCEAN institute (France) and the Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (Italy). My work focuses on the study of biogeochemical cycles in aquatic systems, in particular carbon cycling, assessing the impact of anthropogenic effects, such as water eutrophication, and those related to climate change, such as greenhouse gas exchange and ocean acidification.

Workshop in wich she participates: Research fair

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Department: Oceanography and Global Change

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Research Group: Global Change Research Group

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Lines of Research: Chemical oceanography, carbon cycle, ocean acidification, climate change

After pursuing a bachelor in Physics at the Univeristy of Trento (Italy), I developed an interest for Climate Sciences and enrolled to a master in Environmental Physics at the University of Bremen (Germany), specializing in atmospheric chemistry modelling. Now, I joined the Physical-Biological Interactions in the Ocean (InFiBiO) group at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA), and I'll switch from the large-scale world of atmospheric transport to the realm of the tiny, digging into the role of parasitism during phytoplankton blooms. In my PhD, I'll try to disentangle the motility and the physical mechanisms of the interaction between a flagellated host and its flagellated parasite chasing after it.

Workshop in wich she participates: Research fair

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Department: Marine Ecosystem dynamics

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Research Group: Interacciones Fisico-Biologicas en el Oceano

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Lines of Research: Dinámica parásitos huéspedes; chemiotaxis de microorganismos

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Graduate in Biology and Master in Ecology at the University of Barcelona. Currently (and since 2020) I am doing a PhD thesis at the Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats, of the Consell Superior d'Investigació Científica (IMEDEA-CSIC). My work is focused on studying the interactions between organisms and, between organisms and the environment, in the underwater meadows of plants and algae of the Mediterranean Sea. Specifically, I try to understand how these interactions give rise to the different underwater landscape features, to answer questions such as: "Why do underwater meadows have such different shapes?" or "Why do we find species of plants and algae that live together in a meadow? Among other things, in my work I have participated in underwater sampling campaigns, I have studied the growth and metabolic activity of Mediterranean benthic plants and algae, I have measured the environmental conditions of sea water with the help of multi-parametric sensors (pH, alkalinity, oxygen, etc.) and I have analysed the environmental conditions of the sea water with the help of multiparametric sensors (pH, alkalinity, oxygen, etc.). ) and I have analysed the conditions of the substrate where the species grow by means of biogeochemical techniques in the laboratory.

Workshop in wich she participates: Research fair

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Department: Oceanography and Global Change

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Research Group: Global Change

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Lines of Research: Ecology of marine macrophytes and global change

I am a Research Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and currently head the Marine Technologies, Operational and Coastal Oceanography Group of the CSIC and the UIB. My line of research is the study of the physical processes that govern the dynamics and energy exchanges in the ocean with special interest in the coastal zone. My work includes the study of non-linear wave propagation, boundary layer processes, sediment transport and dispersion at the ocean surface and meso- and sub-mesoscale dynamics from a theoretical, numerical and coupled modelling point of view. My research is carried out at IMEDEA in the Department of Oceanography and Global Change. I was a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University from 2003 to 2005 and a visiting researcher at Princeton, Rutgers, Toulon and Brown Universities. Since 2009 I am a professor at the Naval School of Officers of the Colombian Navy, where I teach courses on Wave Theory and Coastal Processes. I have been president of MonGOOS the Mediterranean Operational Oceanography Network in the framework of EuroGOOS from 2018 to 2022 and member of the Scientific Steering Committee of EuroGOOS. I have published more than 120 scientific papers and supervised 14 PhD theses.

Workshop in wich he participates: Stage research

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Department: Oceanography and Global Change

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Research Group: Marine Technologies, Operational and Coastal Oceanography

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Lines of Research: Ocean Dynamics

Graduated in Chemical Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Master in Advanced Microbiology at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) and PhD in Environmental and Biomedical Microbiology at the UIB, she works at IMEDEA (UIB-CSIC), in the InFiBio group (Physical-Biological Interactions in the Ocean), in the Department of Marine Ecology. During my undergraduate studies, I did research on the use of organic wastes as natural antioxidants and source of bioethanol, in the Antioxidants and Renewable Energies research line at the UPC. During the master's degree, I conducted a process optimisation study for the analysis of halophilic microbial communities in extreme saline environments, which I carried out in the Marine Microbiology research group at IMEDEA. The doctoral thesis, carried out in the same group, was based on the study of microbial communities inhabiting hypersaline and anaerobic systems, particularly in saline sediments. Currently, I am working in the InFiBio group, attached to a Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) project entitled The aphrodisiac gut: defining the factors promoting yeast mating within insect intestines, and supporting other projects of the group such as, for example, the national plan PN - Rheoflag: Rheological properties of eukaryotic cilia and flagella.

Workshop in wich she participates: Mystery Boxes: How is science done?

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Department: Marine Ecology

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Research Group: InFiBio

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Lines of Research: Study of factors that promote yeast mating within insect guts. Rheological properties of eukaryotic cilia and flagella

I did a bachelor in Physics and Mathematics in France, in Bordeaux and Paris. After that I went to KTH (Stockholm) to study a master in Theoretical Physics. I progressively got interested in Biophysics and Biology as it was completely new to me, and applied for a PhD in Biophysics of microorganisms here in Mallorca. I'm investigating the movement of flagella. They are small antennas that boh microalgaes and our cells use, to move or generate flows and perceive their surroundings. We don't understand very well the emergence of flagellar beats. One way to understand it better is to study mechanical properties of these flagella. For example, their elasticity or viscosity. For now we know that they are quite rigid, but we don't know much about their viscosity.

Workshop in wich he participates: Research fair

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Department: Marine Ecology

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Research Group: InFiBio

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Lines of Research: Biophysics of microorganisms

Graduate in Biology from the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) (2016) and Master in Oceanography and Marine Environment Management from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) (2017). In 2019 she worked as a research assistant at the Caño Palma Biological Station, Costa Rica, on a sea turtle nesting project in Playa Norte (Barra del Colorado). Since August 2020, she is working on her PhD thesis with an FPI grant from the Balearic Government (CAIB) at the Fish Ecology Lab of IMEDEA (Esporles, Mallorca). Her project focuses on studying the gut-brain axis in marine fish, and on finding out the relationship between behaviour and the gut microbiome in these animals.

Workshop in which she participates: Research Fair

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Departament: Marine Ecosystem Dynamics

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Research Group: Fish Ecology Lab

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Lines of Research: Marine ecology, marine biology, marine biology, molecular biology, microbiology

I have a degree in biology and a master's degree in marine ecology, both from the University of the Balearic Islands. I did both my final thesis and my master's degree at IMEDEA in the Fish Ecology group, under the supervision of Dr. Josep Alós. Thanks to these two projects, I was able to start my line of research, the chronotypes of fish, which I have continued in my doctoral thesis, which I am currently finishing.

Workshop in which she participates: Feria de la investigación

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Departament: Dinámica d'Ecosistemes Marins

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Research Group: Fish Ecology Lab

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Lines of Research: Cronotips

Young researcher and PhD student at IMEDEA. Originally from Brescia (Italy), he trained as a biologist in Milan (undergraduate), Barcelona and Palma (masters). His PhD in marine ecology consists of applying artificial intelligence techniques to the study of fish ecology, especially for the monitoring of exploited fish populations and for the monitoring of recreational fishing in marine reserves.

Workshop in which he participates: Feria de la investigación

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Departament: Dinamica d’Ecosistemes Marins

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Research Group: Fish Ecology Lab

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Lines of Research: Ecología marina, biología pesquera, inteligencia artificial

I am a Marie Curie postdoctoral researcher at IMEDEA. My research is focused on animal behaviour studies, mainly on the genetic bases that regulate it. I did my PhD in Indiana (USA) where I studied the genetic mechanisms that determine morphological and behavioural differences in birds. Once I finished my PhD, I joined the Fish Ecology laboratory at IMEDEA to start a new line of research on the behaviour and genetics of the parrot (lorito). We are currently finalising the sequencing of the genome of this species, which will allow us to study the effects of recreational fishing on the genetic diversity of the populations of this emblematic species in the Balearic Islands.

Workshop in which she participates: Feria de la investigación

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Departament: Dinàmica d'Ecosistemes Marins

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Research Group: Fish Ecology Lab

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Lines of Research: Ecologia molecular i del comportament

PhD in Ecology from the Universitat de Barcelona (2017), since 2019 I have been working as a postdoctoral researcher at IMEDEA. My work focuses on the functioning of marine ecosystems and, in particular, on the causes and consequences of fish behaviour. I investigate the complex interactions that arise between individuals, their environment and human impacts such as overfishing and climate change, using state-of-the-art acoustic telemetry techniques that allow me to monitor the movement of individuals in the wild. The ultimate goal of my work is to improve the conservation status of coastal fish populations through effective marine protected areas, ensuring a sustainable use of seas and oceans.

Workshop in which he participates: Feria de la investigación

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Departament: Ecología Marina

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Research Group: Ecología de peces

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Lines of Research: Investigación Marina en Sistemas Ecológicos y Sociales

I am a plantonic ecologist, and my passion is to understand how microbes that live floating at the mercy of waves and currents can harness small-scale physics to their advantage. I studied biology at the University of Barcelona, and later did my PhD at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Barcelona on the effects of turbulence on the life of plantonic microorganisms. After finishing my PhD I worked in several laboratories in the US and UK with renowned experts in physics-biology interactions. I am currently working at IMEDEA, investigating how marine microalgae modify and control their environment, excreting viscous substances that modify the physical properties of water.

Workshop in which he participates: Investigación a escena - Feria de la investigación

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Departament: Ecología Marina

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Research Group: InFiBio

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Lines of Research: Plancton, viscosidad y turbulencia

Isa holds a degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) and a master's degree in Global Change from the Menéndez Pelayo University (CSIC-UIMP). A terrestrial ecologist, she works at the interface between empirical and theoretical ecology. Her main line of research, consolidated during her PhD at the University of Oviedo (2017), focuses on understanding the effect of plant-animal interactions on ecosystem functioning under anthropogenic impacts, such as habitat loss or species defaunation. After three years as a postdoctoral researcher in Germany thanks to a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, in 2021 she joined the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB). At this institute, she has recently started her Marie Sklodowska-Curie ECORISC project - funded by the HORIZON-MSCA - 2021 programme, whose main objective is to assess the consequences of climate change on the process of seed dispersal by birds in plant communities of island systems. His work combines empirical data based on plant-bird dispersal interaction networks with long-distance dispersal models and species extinction models in order to develop possible future scenarios of ecological communities and the ecosystem functions derived from them. In addition, Isa collaborates in other research projects with the aim of deciphering the complexity of ecological interactions in different archipelagos around the world and their response to global change.

Workshop in which she participates: Feria de la investigación

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Departament: Oceanografía y Cambio Global

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Research Group: Global Change Research Group

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Lines of Research: Ecología terrestre, interacciones mutualistas, cambio global, redes ecológicas, dispersión de semillas y regeneración vegetal

I graduated in Physics back in 1999 at the University of Padova (Italy), with a specialisation on theoretical high energy particle physics. I then joined New York University (USA) for my Ph.D. (2001-2007), which was in David Grier‘s group at the Center for Soft Matter Research, working on colloidal interactions measured with holographic optical tweezers. In 2007 I started working with Raymond Goldstein at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge (UK), on biophysics at the cellular level. I have been lucky enough to be sponsored first by a Marie-Curie Fellowship (2008-2010), then by an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2010-2013). I joined the Physics Department at the University of Warwick (UK) in September 2013, and became Associate Professor in 2018. In February 2016 I became an Associate Member of Warwick Integrative Synthetic Biology Centre. In December 2016 I joined the Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology at Warwick as Group Leader. In December 2020 I joined the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA) as a Ramón y Cajal Fellow. Group activities are currently split between Warwick and IMEDEA.

Workshop in which he participates: Mystery Boxes. ¿Cómo se hace la ciencia?

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Departament: Ecologia Marina

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Research Group: InFiBio

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Lines of Research: Biofísica de microorganismos, materia condensada blanda, materia activa