Itahiza Domínguez Cerdeña
Itahiza Domínguez Cerdeña, born in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain) is the coordinator of the Volcanic Monitoring Unit of the National Geographic Institute (IGN) in Tenerife since 2023. He graduated in Physics in 2001 at the University of La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain), he developed his doctoral thesis at the University of Göttingen (Germany) on the magnetic […]
Stavros Meletlidis
Stavros Meletlidis is a member of the Volcanic Monitoring Unit of the National Geographic Institute(IGN) and works at the Geophysical Center of the IGN in Tenerife. He holds a degree in Geological Sciences from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Barcelona (Spain). He served as […]
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall is the world’s foremost authority on chimpanzees, having closely observed their behavior for the past quarter century in the jungles of the Gombe Game Reserve in Africa, living in the chimps’ environment and gaining their confidence. Her observations and discoveries are intemationally heralded. Her research and writing have made, and are making, revolutionary […]
Steven Chu
Steven Chu is Professor of Physics, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for laser cooling and trapping of atoms. Other contributions include the first optical tweezers manipulation of biomolecules, precision atom interferometry based on optical pulses of light, and single molecule […]
Kip Thorne
Kip Thorne is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) until 2009 and is one of the world’s leading experts on the astrophysical implications of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. He continues to do scientific research […]
George Smoot
Astrophysicist at the University of California Berkeley (USA), Professor Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on COBE with John C. Mather that led to the measurement of the anisotropy and blackbody form of the cosmic microwave background radiation. He is a senior scientist at LBL and, since 2010, a professor of […]
Jill Tarter
Astrophysicist and SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) pioneer. Tarter holds the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the California Academy of Sciences. She was named one of the 100 most influential people […]
John Mather
John Cromwell Mather (USA) is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE) with George Smoot, measuring the cosmic microwave background radiation, showing it came from the early universe, and discovering that it has hot and cold spots that […]
Kurt Wüthrich
Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss scientist who, with John B. Fenn and Tanaka Koichi, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2002 for developing techniques to identify and analyze proteins and other large biological molecules. After receiving a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Basel in 1964, Wüthrich took his postdoctoral training in Switzerland and […]
Pablo Álvarez
Pablo Álvarez Fernández, born in 1988 in León, Spain, is a prominent aerospace engineer and astronaut candidate with the European Space Agency (ESA). He holds a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of León and a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the Warsaw University of Technology. Álvarez has a diverse background in […]