Position: Coordinators of the project

Dr. Josep Comin-Colet, MD, PhD, FESC is:

• Clinical Director, Heart Diseases Institute, Bellvitge University Hospital.
• Director of Innovation, Research & Universities, Southern Metropolitan Area, Catalan Health Institute.
• Director, BIOHEART Research Group, IDIBELL & CIBERCV.
• Professor of Medicine, University of Barcelona.
• Internationally recognized expert in heart failure, translational research, and health innovation.

• MSCA research fellow at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, working with the GAPCOMB-UPC group.

• Research focuses on combinatorics, probability, and algorithms, with emphasis on discrete structures and random processes.

• Former postdoctoral researcher at LaBRI (Université de Bordeaux) and IME-USP (University of São Paulo).
• Holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Birmingham, supervised by Richard Mycroft and Deryk Osthus.

• Interested in exploring the interplay between probabilistic methods and combinatorial optimization.

• Assistant Professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and affiliated researcher at CRM and IMTech.

• Develops mathematical models for environmental processes, including climate change, contaminant removal, and sustainable energy systems.

• Collaborates with international institutions such as the University of Oxford and University of the Witwatersrand.

• Member of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry Educational Committee.

• Combines applied mathematics, numerical modeling, and industrial collaboration to address global environmental challenges.

• Assistant Professor at Universitat de Barcelona and researcher at CRM, specializing in geometry and dynamical systems.

• Works on holomorphic and hyperbolic dynamics, renormalization theory, and rigidity phenomena in mathematical systems.

• Organizer of the 2025 Summer School Topics in Complex Dynamics (Barcelona).

• Member of the HoloDyn research group at UB.

• Combines geometric intuition with theoretical and analytical approaches to dynamical behavior.

• Professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and researcher at CRM, specializing in applied mathematics for geophysical fluid dynamics.

• Studies transport, mixing, and convection processes in oceans, atmosphere, and planetary mantles using dynamical systems and numerical simulations.

• Recipient of the 2025 National Research Prize, 2022 Leonardo Fellowship, and 2020 L’Oréal–Unesco “For Women in Science” Award.

• Deputy Director of Research at UPC’s Mathematics Department and editor for Physica D and Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics.

• Research supported by AEI (CNS2023-144360, PID2021-122954NB-I00) and Fundación Ramón Areces.

Nieves Lorenzo has a Bachelor in Biochemistry Degree from University of Barcelona (UB) and a Master’s Degree in Biomedical Research from University Pompeu Fabra (UPF). After different internships and working positions in Europe, such as a microbiological production startup in Belgium and a Forest Research Institute in Finland, she started to work at the CRG in 2012. Now she is carrying on her PhD project at the CRG, in the laboratory of professor Gian Gaetano Tartaglia on his Gene Function and Evolution laboratory. Her main scientific interest resides in better understanding biochemical mechanisms of toxicity in neurodegeneration, e.g. in Parkinson’s or Alzheimer diseases.

Soledad Pérez began her research career in 1998 when she was awarded a scholarship by the European Community under the Latin America Academic Formation program to work as a postgraduate fellow at the department of Clinical Biochemistry at St. Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Biochemistry at Queen Mary and Westfield College in London. Upon completion of her postgraduate fellowship, she started her doctoral research at the department of Oral Cell Biology, Academic Centre of Dentistry (ACTA) in Amsterdam. In 2006 she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Oral Cell Biology at the Free University in Amsterdam. After this, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Tissue Regeneration at the University of Twente in The Netherlands. In 2007 she joined the departments of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Otorhinolaryngology at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam as a postdoctoral research fellow. Finally, in 2012 she joined the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies Group at IBEC. Her research interests include the design of scaffolds and their interaction with cells in in vitro as well as in vivo settings.

• Degree in Chemistry.
• PhD by University Rovira and Virgili.
• Researcher ICIQ’s scientific outreach programme manager.
• Scientific interest in molecular photovoltaic devices and polyurethane.

• MSc in Physics by Università degli Studi of Milan.
• PhD in Photonics by Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC); UPC Special Doctoral Award.
• Part of ICFO KTT team led by Dra. Silvia Carrasco, coordinator of many of the outreach activities organized by ICFO.
• Organizer of the Young Photonics Congress, a scientific congress for high-school students that has reached already its fourth edition.
• Co-organizer of the BIG Bell Test, a worldwide citizen science experiment that involved more than 100 scientists and 100.000 people around the world.

Marta García-Matos is a physicist, mathematician, and writer. At ICFO’s outreach team, she is in charge of interdisciplinary programs involving people some way or another into science and light. She has designed exhibitions and workshops for Barcelona Science Museum CosmoCaixa, organizes annually the speculative fiction contest The Light on the Waves, and has recently published, together with ICFO’s director Lluis Torner, the book The Wonders of Light (Cambridge University Press, 2015).