ILLUSTRIOUS SPEAKERS WHO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN SCIENCEKAITZA 2019

JOHN CLEESE

HIGH OF THE MONTY PHYTON

John Cleese is known worldwide for being a founding member of the MONTY PYTHON and for his participation in the movie “THE LIFE OF BRIAN” and other creations such as “The Flying Circus of Monty Python”, the Fawlty Towers series, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail ”and“ A fish named Wanda ”, among others.

GEORGE F. SMOOT

NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS

George F. Smoot was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006, together with John C. Mather, for his study of the microwave background radiation by the artificial satellite COBE, showing that shortly after the Big Bang there were irregularities in the Universe that they were the seeds of the later formation of galaxies.

MARÍA BLANCO

SINAI ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH

María Blanco Prieto is a professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Nutrition at the University of Navarra. She has a degree in pharmacy from the University of Santiago de Compostela and a doctorate from the “Université de Paris-Sud”, France. After the doctorate, he did a 3-year postdoctoral stay at the prestigious ETH (The Federal Polytechnic School of Zurich, Switzerland).

CARLOS MAGDALENA

THE MESSIAH OF THE PLANTS

He says of himself that in every molecule of his body is the passion to preserve plants on the brink of extinction. This Spanish botanist has achieved what other scientists believed impossible.

LUIS PIEDRAHITA, MASTER OF CEREMONIES

Luis Piedrahita repeated as host of the presentation gala for the II SciencEkaitza Scientific Awards. His interest in scientific issues and his good connection with the Sciencekaitza audience were the key to retelling this humorist and magician illusionist.

SCIENCEKAITZA AWARDS

The following awards were presented at the gala:

  • 4 second prize, one for each area of ​​smart specialization, recognizing the proposals with the greatest potential to be developed in each sector: Automotive and Mechatronics, Health, Food Chain and Renewable Energies and Resources.
  • 1 second prize for Audiovisual Communication: for the best proposal for scientific dissemination in audiovisual format, recognizing the candidacy with the greatest potential to transmit the idea and values ​​of its project to society.
  • I SciencEkaitza Award, for the proposal with the greatest impact and the greatest transforming potential of the Navarrese economy and society.
  • Audience award. The public, by voting on the web, chose their favorite research project.