Juan Nácher works at the Institute for Biotechnology and Biomedicine Research leading the Neuroplasticity Unit, where he tries to understand the effects of adverse childhood experiences on the brain.
Issue 123 explores the connections between science and National Socialism in a current context in which xenophobic and authoritarian discourse is re-emerging.
Mario Culebras is a tenure-track 1 professor at the Department of Physical Chemistry and researcher at the Institute of Materials Science of the University of Valencia. He is part of the Macromolecules and Colloids for Sustainable Materials (MacroCoSM) group.
In this new Science Space, we visit the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, where Pau Carazo studies the evolution of behaviour and sexual selection.
We begin the series «Science spaces» by visiting Professor Concha Gómez Mena's laboratory at the Institute for Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (CSIC-UPV), on the Vera campus of the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Full Professor of Physics Pas García takes a gendered approach to her field, which involves the diffraction and polarisation of light. She points out that women in physics represent only around 20–22% of researchers.