K-Narias
K-Narias is a reggaeton pop music group formed in 2004 by twin sisters Gara and Loida Hernández Rubio from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Known for their energetic and catchy music, they gained fame with hits like “No Te Vistas que No Vas” and “Un Pedacito de Navidad.” Over the years, they have […]
TERCO
TERCO is a band originally formed in Almería (Spain) as a trio. After several lineup changes, they recorded their first studio work in 2019, an EP with six tracks titled “Del amor y otros demonios,” reflecting a tough period but filled with effort and love. They performed at various provincial festivals, opening for bands like […]
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 […]
Xavier Barcons
Xavier Barcons, ESO Director General since 1 September 2017, was born in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain in 1959. He received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in physical sciences from the University of Barcelona in 1981. He was awarded a PhD in statistical physics in 1985 from the University of Cantabria, Spain. Barcons began his academic […]
Miguel Alcubierre
Miguel Alcubierre Moya, born on March 28, 1964, in Mexico City, is a renowned Mexican theoretical physicist best known for proposing the Alcubierre drive, a speculative concept for faster-than-light travel. Alcubierre’s academic journey began at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he earned a Licentiate degree in Physics in 1988 and a Master’s […]
Chris Boshuizen (Dr Chrispy)
Dr. Chris Boshuizen, also known as Dr. Chrispy, is an award-winning aeronautical engineer, music producer, and songwriter. He was Australia’s third astronaut and has always balanced his passions for music and space exploration. Boshuizen worked at NASA for nearly five years, where he invented new kinds of spacecraft, and later co-founded Planet Labs, a company […]
SHIDOW
With over a decade of experience and several albums, this band blends American folk with their unique style, creating beautiful, melancholic soundscapes with mid-tempo rhythms and rich harmonies
Donna Strickland
Dr. Donna Strickland is one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 for co-inventing Chirped Pulse Amplification with Dr. Gérard Mourou, her PhD supervisor at the time of the discovery. She earned her PhD in optics from the University of Rochester and her B. Eng. from McMaster University. Dr. Strickland was a […]
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 […]
Sara Garcia
Sara García Alonso, born in 1989 in León, Spain, is a prominent biotechnologist and cancer researcher. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology in 2012 and a master’s degree in Biomedical and Biological Research in 2013, both from the University of León. In 2018, she completed her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology of Cancer and Translational […]