Laura Beatriz Giambiagi
CONICET, Argentina
Plenary Lecture: "Relationship between orogenic construction, deformation and stress field in the Central Andes".

Dr. Laura Beatriz Giambiagi holds a degree and PhD in Geological Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.  She is currently a Principal Researcher at CONICET, Argentina, and Extraordinary Professor at Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile.   

https://www.mendoza.conicet.gov.ar/ianigla/tectonica/

She is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Earth Sciences and Tectonics (American Geophysical Union), among other positions.

Her scientific production includes -among other contributions- i77 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals (Google Scholar: 2949 citations, H-Index 32).

With extensive experience and trajectory in research, teaching, and training of advanced human capital, she received a L'Oreal-UNESCO National Prize Mention in 2020, among other awards.

Diana C. Roman
Carnegie Institution for Science, United States
Plenary Lecture: "Geophysical characterization of volcanic systems and eruption mechanisms"

Diana Roman is currently an H.O. Wood Chair of Seismology in Carnegie’s Earth and Planets Laboratory and has been a Carnegie Staff Scientist since 2011. Her research straddles the boundary between volcanology and seismology, with a dual focus on understanding the nature of magma ascent and eruption and of volcanic microearthquake swarms. Specifically, she works to understand, from a mechanical perspective, the formation, evolution, and dynamics of crustal magmatic systems and the source mechanisms and causes of microearthquake swarms occurring in the vicinity of active volcanoes. These two lines of research are tied together through development of conceptual and numerical models of the interaction of tectonic and volcanic processes. Dr. Roman was a co-author of the 2017 U.S. National Academy Consensus Report "Volcanic Eruptions and Their Repose, Unrest, Precursors, and Timing". Since 2016, Dr. Roman has co-led the SZ4D Initiative (www.sz4d.org), a planned decadal-scale effort to understand fundamental processes underlying Earth’s largest geohazards. Since 2019, Dr. Roman has also served as an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 

Todd A. Ehlers
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Professor Ehlers’ research investigates the processes that shape mountain topography and form soils.  In particular, he looks at the effects of past and present climate, biota, and plate tectonics on the shape of the Earth’s surface.  His research combines field observations, computer models, and geochemical data.  Professor Ehlers is the speaker for the German-Chilean collaborative research project called EarthShape, which investigates the interactions between the geo- and biosphere (www.earthshape.net). He was a Moore’s Distinguished Scholar at the California Insitute of Technology, USA, an elected member of the Academia Europea, and a recipient of the European Geosciences Union Bagnold Medal.  He is currently a professor and Head of School at the University of Glasgow, UK.  Before this, he was a professor at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, and the University of Michigan, USA.

Emily Brodsky
University of California Santa Cruz, United States
Conferencia Plenaria: "El problema de los terremotos"

Emily E. Brodsky is a professor and earthquake physicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  Her research focuses on connecting empirical observations of earthquakes with fundamental physical processes. Prof. Brodsky earned her A.B. from Harvard in 1995, Ph.D. from Caltech in 2001 and was a 2001 Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the recipient of the inaugural 2005 Charles Richter Early Career award from the Seismological Society of America, the 2008 James Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the 2019 Woolard Award from the Geological Society of America (GSA), the 2019 Gutenberg Lectureship, the 2021 Price Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the 2022 Nemmers Award in Earth Science and is a Fellow of both AGU and GSA.  She has served on the Board of Directors of the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) and Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology (IRIS) and is the chair of the Executive Committee of SZ4D.  She has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles and presented over 150 invited lectures talks in 30 states and 13 countries. Her work has been featured in major press outlets such as the BBC, NPR, Time Magazine, NY Times, Nature, Reuters, LA Times and The Wall Street Journal. She has mentored more than 40 graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, many who have gone on to become leaders in the field.

Conferencia Plenaria: Innovación y Aplicaciones en Geología y Minería: Explorando en el Ecosistema del Conocimiento en el SERNAGEOMIN

Industrial Civil Engineer from the University of Chile; Master in Administration (Executive MBA) from the Adolfo Ibáñez University with over 31 years of experience in the public and private sector, in addition to a long teaching career in state and private universities. Since January 2020 he has directed the National Centre for the Piloting of Mining Technologies (CNP). He was the executive director of the Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission (CCHEN) between 2016 and 2018, corporate manager and innovation manager at CORFO in 2014 and 2015, and Director General of Public Works in 2007. In addition, he has worked as an independent consultant, carrying out various consultancies related to management, modernization, innovation and social impact projects for companies and national and international public institutions. He joined SERNAGEOMIN in February 2023 as National Director through Senior Public Management.

Cristina Dorador
Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile

Cristina holds a Degree in Science with a major in Biology, Universidad de Chile (2002); a PhD in Natural Sciences from the University of Kiel and Max-Planck Institute for Limnology in Germany (2007). She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Antofagasta and a researcher at the Centre for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (CeBiB). She has trained several generations of undergraduate and graduate students and has supervised postdoctoral researchers.

Her research is based on the microbiology of extreme environments (80 publications to date). She has been a Frontier Researcher of the Chilean Academy of Sciences, Ambassador and Latin American representative of ISME (International Society for Microbial Ecology). She has been principal investigator of national and international projects. She was part of the last CONICYT Council (2019). She has been highlighted as one of the main national representatives of the coverage of Science and Technology in Chile, Fundación Imagen de Chile (2018); in 2017 she was chosen as one of the 100 Women Leaders of Chile, in 2017 the Laboratory and Science Academy of the Liceo Radomiro Tomic of Calama bears her name. In 2022 she was recognised as one of the 30 powerful women in Chile by Forbes Magazine due to her influence in science and the environment. She was an elected Constituent Convention member for the region of Antofagasta in 2021-2022. She works for gender and territorial equity in research in different areas along with the dissemination of science and protection of salt flats.

Adam C. Simon
University of Michigan, USA
Plenary Lecture: "The formation of iron oxide – apatite (IOA) and iron oxide – copper – gold (IOCG) deposits: Insights from the chemistry of actinolite, apatite, magnetite, pyroxene and pyrite."

Adam C. Simon is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan. He earned degrees in geology and geochemistry from the University of Maryland and Stony Brook University and was a postdoctoral fellow at The Johns Hopkins University. His scholarly work focuses on the global flow of energy and mineral resources with an emphasis on the geologic availability of energy critical metals. Adam has co-authored two textbooks Mineral Resources, Economics and the Environment, and Earth Materials: Components of a Diverse Planet, and published seventy papers in the field of energy and mineral resources. Adam has done research and given invited lectures on all seven continents including a TEDX talk in 2022. He has earned numerous awards for undergraduate teaching including the University of Michigan Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize. 

Dr. Sergio Mora Castro
ARX Consultores, Costa Rica
Plenary Lecture: Analysis of the risk derived from external geodynamic processes: The role of engineering geology in land use planning.

Graduated from the Central American School of Geology at the University of Costa Rica and PhD in Geological Engineering at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy, France.  For over 40 years he has worked as a consultant, specialist in geological engineering (risk, environmental and natural resources management) in private enterprise, national, multilateral, and academic institutions in Costa Rica, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East. He is currently the President of the Costa Rican Committee of Engineering Geology and the Environment, School of Geologists of Costa Rica and the International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment. He has published 153 scientific and technical publications and consultancy reports.

Silvia Peppoloni
Italian Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Italy
Plenary Lecture: "Geoethics, geosciences and global anthropogenic impacts".

PhD, geologist, researcher at the Italian Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, her scientific activity concerns geohazards, georisks, and the social, educational and communication aspects of geosciences. She is an international leader of geoethics, fully involved in the base research on ethical, social and cultural implications of geoscience knowledge, research and practice, focusing on key concepts for society such as sustainability, prevention, adaptation and geo-education. She is founding member and Secretary General of the International Association for Promoting Geoethics, https://www.geoethics.org/ Director of the School on Geoethics and Natural Issues. https://www.geoethics.org/geoethics-school. 

Among her current position, she is Chair of the Commission on Geoethics of the International Union of Geological Sciences, Chair of the Ethical Advisory Board of the European research infrastructure ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System), member of the Advisory Board for Climate Intervention Research of the American Geophysical Union, member of the Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science of the International Science Council. Work package/task leader and member of advisory boards in European projects, she is Editor in Chief of the SpringerBrief in Geoethics and of the international Journal of Geoethics and Social Geosciences. As science writer, in Italy she has been awarded with the National Award for Natural Literature. Among her publications, she authored the chapter on Ethics for the Elsevier Dictionary of Geology.

Giuseppe Di Capua
Italian Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Italy

Geologist at the Italian Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, his fields of experience cover engineering geology, geohazards, as well as geoethics, philosophy of geosciences, social geosciences, geoeducation and communication. With over 20 years of experience in multidisciplinary geoscience research, he is fully involved in developing research on theoretical and practical aspects of geoethics, in particular on issues of sustainable and responsible use of georesources, and prevention from georisks. 

He is co-founding member, treasurer, webmaster, and social media manager of the IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics, https://www.geoethics.org/ webmaster and member of the Publications Committee of the IUGS – International Union of Geological Sciences, treasurer, secretary, and webmaster of the IUGS Commission on Geoethics, member of the Executive Committee of the CIPSH – International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences. Task/Team Leader and member of Advisory Boards in several European projects, he is editor of books and special issues, and author of books and articles on geoethics. He is co-author of the Cape Town Statement on Geoethics and the White Paper on Responsible Mining of the IAPG.