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Alicia M Sintes Menorca, Spain (1969) Theoretical physics. Her research focuses on gravitational wave astronomy She began her research career at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB), where she graduated in 1992 and obtained her doctorate in 1996. She continued as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Germany. She is the principal investigator of the Gravitational Physics group of the UIB, member of LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the LISA Consortium and of the Einstein Telescope science Team. She has been scientific advisor to the European Space Agency. Sintes was named "favourited daughter" of Sant Lluís in 2018 and has received numerous awards, including Ramon Llull from the Government of the Balearic Islands, Synchronized from the SINC Agency and member of the Spanish Selection of Science of QUO, among others. She has supervised 7 doctoral theses and has published more than 270 scientific articles.
Yolanda González Orense, Spain (1969) She applies deep learning in the field of underwater robotics for digital image processing Computer engineer and Doctor in Industrial Engineering, she is a member of the Systems, Robotics and Vision research group at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) and of E-Health and multidisciplinary telemedicine using intelligent cyber-physical systems of the Health Research Institute of the Balearic Islands. Her scientific contributions benefit to the preservation of the state of the Posidonia oceanica meadows, an endemic Mediterranean plant of great ecological value, and to the automatic identification of marine species, as well as to improve the autonomous navigation algorithms of robots. She has also developed projects applying technology in health sciences, such as Play4Health, a serious game applied to telerehabilitation led by the health area of the BIT Foundation.
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María del Mar Leza Palma, Spain (1984) She is a biologist with the Global Change Research Group (ICG). She investigates the effects of climate change and biological invasions, agricultural and forest pests, analyzing the efficacy of treatments and the impact of insecticides She is the Head of Studies for the degree in Agri-Food Engineering and the Rural Environment and a professor at the UIB. At present she is coordinator of the Velutina Task Force working group, framed in the international Coloss association. She worked with the invasive, predatory species of honey bees, the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina). As part of a collaborative work, she devised and developed the Vespapp platform (http://vespapp.uib.es), designed to detect and control the Asian wasp, which received the award for Outreach from the Catalan Biology Society in 2017. She has analyzed the health status of the honey bee colonies. She leads a study focused on the pollinator Bombus terrestris, looking at the pollination enhancement of the almond tree using this bumblebee. She also studies other pollinators and pest insects.
Helena Costa Formentera, Spain (1992) She has participated in the development of a gene therapy treatment for Pompe disease, and is dedicated to characterizing and investigating strategies to minimize the immune response against viral gene therapy vectors After graduating in Biotechnology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and completing a Master's degree at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands), she obtained a doctorate in Gene Therapy and Immunology at the Pierre and Marie-Curie University (Sorbonne Universités, Paris). She currently works in Milan as a postdoctoral researcher at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-TIGET) in the team of Dr. Anna Kajaste-Rudnitski, studying how different cell types respond to viral gene therapy vectors by using of human pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). The objective is to identify antiviral mechanisms that limit the transduction of these vectors, in order to inhibit them and improve the efficacy of this technology in the treatment of genetic diseases.
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