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Toalá Sanz, Jesús Alberto Filiation: Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico Biography Jesús A. Toalá (Sinaloa, México, 1983) obtained his PhD degree in 2014 at IAA under the supervision of Drs. Martín A Guerrero (IAA) and Jane Arthur (UNAM, Mexico). His PhD thesis “X-ray emission from hot bubbles around Evolved Stars” addresses the production of X-ray emission from planetary nebulae and Wolf-Rayet nebulae using Chandra and XMM-Newton X-ray observations and radiation-hydrodynamical simulations. He worked shortly as a postdoct at IAA, but he was immediately appointed a “Distinguished Postdoc" at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Academia Sinica of Taipei, Taiwan. He currently works at UNAM (Morelia, Mexico), where he leads the Evolved Stars group. His interests include the impact of evolved stars into their circumstellar medium using multi-wavelength observations and simulations. Date:
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Gkouvelis , Leonardos Filiation: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Biography Dr. Leonardos Gkouvelis earned his Ph.D. with top honors in 2017 from the University of Valencia, Spain, specializing in stellar physics. Motivated by the recent (exo)Planetary revolution, he ventured to Belgium to work on planetary atmospheres as a postdoctoral researcher mid-2017 at the University of Liege. In 2020, he received a NASA Postdoctoral Program fellowship and became involved in 3D-model development for Mars climate. Since 2022, he has been a staff scientist at the Munich Observatory, part of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Germany. In this position, he joined the world's leading expert, Prof. Kevin Heng, a theoretical astrophysicist studying exoplanets' atmospheres and exoclimes, ex-director of the Center for Space and Habitability (2016 to 2021, Bern-Switzerland), and currently the holder of the Chair Professorship in Astrophysics at LMU. Dr. Gkouvelis is the group leader in high-performance computing for global climate modeling of exoplanets and machine learning applications. Date:
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Sánchez Sánchez, Sebastian Filiation: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Biography Observational Astronomer with instrumental experience. BSc and PhD in physics (U. of Salamanca, 1995 and U. of Cantabria, 2001) with Sobresaliente and "Cum Laude" qualitifications. He. worked at the ING-La Palma (2001) and Calar Alto (2004-2010) observatories (covering all range of positions), with postdoctoral stays at AIP (Marie Curie RTN, 2002-2004, Germany), CEFCA (ARAID, 2010-2011), and IAA (RyC, 2011-2012). Since November 2013, he is researcher at the Instituto de Astronomía of the Unv. Nacional Autónoma de México, first as Investigador Titular B (IT-B), and since 2018 as Investigador Titular C (the highest academic position at UNAM). He is focused on understanding the evolution of galaxies through the exploration of their spatially resolved spectroscopic properties, pioneering the implementation of Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) techniques in this field. He conceptualized and provided the community with computational methods to reduce, visualize, and analyze the stellar populations and ionized gas of these data. I was the first to propose the existence the local relationships between the surface mass density and the star formation rate, as well as the oxygen abundance. He has been the PI of the first large-scale integral field spectroscopy survey of galaxies in the Local Universe (CALIFA, http://califa.caha.es), which involved more than 80 scientists from over 20 countries, resulting in over a hundred publications in peer-reviewed journals, more than 50 conference presentations, and the mentoring of 24 PhD and MSc students. These results have changed the paradigm of studying galaxy evolution, now focusing on understanding local processes and relationships, which underpin global ones. This has laid the groundwork for new larger IFS surveys such as MaNGA, SAMI, or AMUSING, of which he is a promoter and founding member. The relevance of these research endeavors has been recognized worldwide, leading to regular invitations to participate in evaluation panels (e.g., ERC, ESF, HST TAC, MINECO/EVALUA, CONICYT, CONACYT), scientific organizing committees for conferences, and delivering seminars and invited and reviewing talks (25 oral presentations in total). These achievements led the prestigious Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics (the highest-impact journal in the field) to commission a review article from me (Sánchez 2020). I have contributed to ~600 publications (~350 in peer-reviewed journals, ~41 as 1st author), with ~24,000 citations (~3,000 as 1st author), with an H index of 90. He has supervised or co-supervised eight PhD theses, four MSc theses, and one MSc thesis, with three more ongoing PhD and MSc supervisions. He participated in over a dozen research projects, both national and international, encompassing basic science (e.g.,PI:CALIFA, co-PI:EDGE, ALMAQUEST, MaNGA/SDSS-IV), instrumental development (e.g., PI:CAFE, LVM/SDSS-IV, TARSIS, MEGARA), data analysis sofware (PI:pyPipe3D, PI:E3D, PI:R3D), and distribution (PI:SDSS17 Pipe3D VAC, PI:eCALIFA). He has been PI of 14 research funded projects, beside personal fellowships, at a national and regional level, with ~1.9 Million Euros granted in total. Date:
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Markkanen , Johannes Filiation: Institute of Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics, TU Braunschweig Biography Post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics TU of Braunscheweig, Germany. He received the D.Sc. (tech.) degree in electrical engineering from Aalto University in 2013 with title “Integral equation methods for extreme-parameter materials and novel boundary conditions”. Specialized in integral equation methods in computational electromagnetics for modeling complex electromagnetic media and surfaces. His has developed a robust model framework to characterize cometary dust particles from photopolarimetry. He has been awarded with the 2019 Elsevier/JQSRT Peter C. Waterman young scientist Award for his outstanding early-career contributions on the theory and applications of electromagnetic Scattering. Date:
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Bonnoli, Giacomo Filiation: INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Milan, Italy) Biography Researcher in the field of blazars and Cherenkov Astronomy. Member of the ASTRI, LST, CTA, MAGIC Collaborations. External collaborator of the VHEGA (Very High Energy Group for Astrophysics) group @ IAA. Collaborator of IXPE, POLAMI, and WEBT. Date:
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Luque , Rafael Filiation: Univ. de Chicago, Chicago, EEUU Biography Born in Priego de Córdoba (Spain), Rafael Luque graduated in Physics from the University of Granada and is a Doctor summa cum laude in Astrophysics from the University of La Laguna in the Canary Islands, Spain. His field of research comprises the discovery and characterization of exoplanets. He has conducted research stays in Mexico, Canada, the Canary Islands, Germany, France, and the US. Since 2022, he works at the University of Chicago as a Margarita Salas fellow. Date:
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Koutoulaki, Maria Filiation: University of Leeds Biography Dr. Maria Koutoulaki, originally from Greece, did her PhD at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), in Ireland, working in the field of star formation under the supervision of Prof. Tom Ray, Prof. Antonella Nata, and Prof Rebeca Garcia. After her PhD, she moved to the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquarters in Garching, Germany, where she joined the group of Prof. Leonardo Testi and now she is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds in the group of Prof. René Oudmaijer. Date:
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Dupke, Renato Filiation: Observatorio Nacional Rio de Janeiro Biography Dr. Dupke is a widely recognized expert in galaxy clusters and the intracluster medium. His analyses are specifically focused on the X-ray emission of the hot gas as well as its chemical composition, and on the nature of Fosil groups and related galaxy association. He is Scientific Director of the international JPAS Survey, a coordinated effort between four institutions (including IAA-CSIC) to map 8000 square degrees of the Northern Sky in 60 filters; JPAS is central to the strategy of research of the SO and is an institutional project of the IAA-CSIC. Date:
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Millour, Ehouarn Filiation: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), Sorbonne University, Paris, France Biography Dr. Ehouan Millour is the deputy leader of the team developing the Planetary Climate Models (PCM) (http://www-planets.lmd.jussieu.fr ), general circulation models designed to model the atmospheres of Mars, Venus, Titan, gas giants and exoplanets. He is the technical manager in charge of the Mars Climate Database and Venus Climate Database. He plays an active role in different space Mars missions, such as the Emirates Mars Mission, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, and InSight. He contributed to more than 75 referred publications and 150 international conferences in the field of planetary sciences. Date:
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