100 Notable alumni of
Autonomous University of Madrid
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The Autonomous University of Madrid is 581st in the world, 216th in Europe, and 14th in Spain by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Autonomous University of Madrid sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Felipe VI of Spain
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- 1988-1993 graduated with law
- Occupations
- sovereign
- Biography
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Felipe VI is King of Spain. In accordance with the Spanish Constitution, as monarch, he is head of state and commander-in-chief of the Spanish Armed Forces, holding the military rank of captain general, and also plays the role of the supreme representation of Spain in international relations.
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Queen Sofía of Spain
- Biography
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Doña Sofía is a member of the Spanish royal family who was Queen of Spain from 1975 to 2014 as the wife of King Juan Carlos I until his abdication. She is the eldest child of King Paul of Greece and his wife, Queen Frederica.
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Macarena García
- Occupations
- artistic gymnastfilm actorsingeractor
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Macarena García de la Camacha Gutiérrez-Ambrossi is a Spanish actress. She won the Goya Award for Best New Actress for her performance in the 2012 silent film Snow White. She has since featured in films such as Palm Trees in the Snow and Holy Camp!.
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Javier Solana
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Graduated with doctorate in physical sciences
- Occupations
- professorpoliticianuniversity teacherphysicistdiplomat
- Biography
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Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga KCMG CYC is a Spanish physicist and PSOE politician. After serving in the Spanish government as Foreign Affairs Minister under Felipe González (1992–1995) and as the Secretary General of NATO (1995–1999), leading the alliance during Operation Allied Force, he was appointed the European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council of the European Union and Secretary-General of the Western European Union and held these posts from October 1999 until December 2009.
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Lola Rodríguez Díaz
- Occupations
- modelactor
- Biography
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Lola Rodríguez Díaz is a Spanish actress, model, and LGBT rights activist.
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Ana Blanco
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Graduated with master's degree in journalism
- Occupations
- pedagoguenews presentertelevision presenterjournalistannouncer
- Biography
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Ana Isabel Blanco López is a Spanish newscaster. From 1990 to 2022 she anchored Televisión Española's flagship daily newscast Telediario, on its three main editions –afternoon, evening, and weekend– in different seasons. She also hosted for some time the weekly Informe Semanal.
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Ángel Gabilondo
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianwriterphilosopher
- Biography
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Ángel Gabilondo Pujol is a Spanish university professor, currently serving as the 6th Ombudsman of Spain.
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Dolores Delgado
- Occupations
- politicianprosecutorjurist
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Dolores Delgado García is a Spanish prosecutor who served as Attorney General of Spain from 2020 to 2022. Previously, she served as Minister of Justice and First Notary of the Kingdom from 2018 to 2020, in the first Pedro Sánchez administration.
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Pepe Viyuela
- Occupations
- actorcircus performerpoetclowntelevision actor
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José Viyuela Castillo, known as Pepe Viyuela, is a Spanish actor, clown, poet, and comedian. He is best known in English-speaking countries for his one-man stage show Encerrona (Lock-In), which was brought to the London stage in June 2017 as part of the Festival of Spanish Theatre in London (Festelón).
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Cristóbal Montoro Romero
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- In 1973 graduated with licentiate in economics
- In 1981 graduated with Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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Cristóbal Ricardo Montoro Romero is a Spanish politician. Hs is a member of the Spanish People's Party. He served as Minister of Finance and Public Administrations of Spain from 22 December 2011 until 1 June 2018, when a vote of no-confidence against Mariano Rajoy ousted his government. His ministry was re-structured in 2016 and the responsibilities of Public Administration were given to the vice president. The office was renamed Minister of Finance and Civil Service.
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Daniel Lacalle
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- writerfund managerX postereconomistopinion journalist
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Daniel Lacalle Fernández is a Spanish economist. He works as an investment manager and as a professor of global economics. He is the author of several economics books as well as being a columnist and contributor to various print and digital publications. Ideologically, he is usually defined as a conservative liberal, close to but not affiliated with the Partido Popular, the party with which he ran in the Spanish general elections of April 2019. He resides in London.
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Gaspar Llamazares
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gaspar Llamazares Trigo is a Spanish politician. He was the leader of the leftist coalition United Left (IU) from 2001 to 2008, as the General Coordinator.
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Silvia Intxaurrondo
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision actor
- Biography
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Silvia Intxaurrondo Alcaine is a Spanish journalist who works for the state broadcaster Televisión Española as the co-anchor of the weekday morning show La hora de La 1 on La 1. She had previously worked for the television news channel CNN+ in 2005 and again in 2010, for Cuatro in 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2013, W Radio in Colombia between 2011 and 2012 as well as the regional broadcasters EITB from 2014 to 2015 and Telemadrid between 2017 and 2021.
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Ignacio González González
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate degree in law
- Occupations
- politiciancivil servantlawyer
- Biography
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Jaime Ignacio González González is a Spanish politician and member of the Partido Popular. González served as the President of the Community of Madrid, one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain, from 26 September 2012 to June 2015.
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Ignacio Aguado
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
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Ignacio Jesús Aguado Crespo is a Spanish lawyer and politician from Citizens (Cs), serving as the party's spokesman in the Assembly of Madrid and as Vice President, Cabinet Minister of Sports and Transparency and Spokesperson of the Government of the Community of Madrid between 2019 and 2021.
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Trinidad Jiménez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Trinidad Jiménez García-Herrera is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) politician and was Spain's Foreign Affairs Minister. She is widely considered to be a confidante of former Spanish prime ministers Felipe González and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Jiménez is a member of the Inter-American Dialogue.
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Juan Mayorga
- Occupations
- philosopherartistic directorplaywrightscreenwriteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Juan Antonio Mayorga Ruano is a Spanish dramatist. He is best known in English-speaking countries for his 2004 play Himmelweg (Way to Heaven), which was brought to the London stage in June 2017 as part of the Festival of Spanish Theatre in London (Festelón).
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María Blasco Marhuenda
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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María Antonia Blasco Marhuenda, known as María Blasco, is a Spanish molecular biologist. She was the director of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, CNIO) from June 22, 2011 to January 29, 2025.
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Carolina Punset
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Carolina Punset Bannel is a Spanish politician, lawyer and forensic handwriting expert. She served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2016 until 2019. Punset has a post-graduate certificate in international development cooperation and non-governmental organizations.
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Paz Esteban López
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate in humanities
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Paz Esteban López is a Spanish intelligence officer. She served as Director of the National Intelligence Centre (CNI) from 2020 to 2022. She was the first woman to hold the post and was previously the Secretary-General of the agency from 2017 to 2019, under Félix Sanz Roldán. In 2022, she was removed from her position as CNI director following revelations, which came to be known as CatalanGate, where various national and regional politicians had been targeted by phone tapping through Pegasus spyware.
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Carlos Taibo
- Occupations
- university teacheroratorwriterpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Carlos Taibo Arias is a writer, editor, and retired professor of political science at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
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Landelino Lavilla Alsina
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Landelino Lavilla Alsina was a Spanish lawyer and politician who served as the minister of justice from 1976 to 1979. He also served as member of parliament and as senator. His most important role was as President of the Congress of Deputies during the coup d'état of 23-F in 1981. Jurist Eduardo García de Enterría called him the "principal architect of the transition to democracy".
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Borja Prado
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- 1973-1976 studied law
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Borja Prado Eulate, is a Spanish businessman currently serving as President of Mediaset España. He has also served as chairman of Endesa.
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Carlos Cuerpo
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Graduated with Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Carlos Cuerpo Caballero is a Spanish economist and politician appointed minister of Economy, Trade and Business in December 2023, succeeding Nadia Calviño after she was elected as president of the European Investment Bank, taking office on 1 January 2024.
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Cristina Garmendia
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- politicianbiologistprofessorbusinessperson
- Biography
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Cristina Garmendia y Mendizábal is a Spanish biologist and businesswoman. With no previous political career, she was appointed as Minister of Science and Innovation in April 2008 by the President of the Government of Spain, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
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Lorena Berdún Villegas
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision presenteractorradio personalitysexologist
- Biography
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Lorena Berdún is a Spanish psychologist, television presenter and actress. She studied psychology in Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and has branched out into the area of sexology, graduating from the University of La Laguna in Tenerife. She is one of Spain's most prominent sexologists due to her appearances on radio and television, giving sexual advice and talking about sexual education.
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Beatriz Corredor
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate degree in law
- Occupations
- politicianland registrarlawyer
- Biography
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Beatriz Corredor Sierra is a Spanish lawyer and politician serving as Member of the Congress of Deputies and chair of the Committee on Justice since 2019. Outside of her parliamentary duties, she chairs the Pablo Iglesias Foundation, a non-profit organization named after the PSOE founder Pablo Iglesias Posse.
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Margarita del Val
- Occupations
- molecular biologistbiochemistvirologistimmunologist
- Biography
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Margarita del Val Latorre is a Spanish chemist, immunologist, and virologist. She coordinates the Salud Global ("Global Health") platform run by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
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Belén Gopegui
- Occupations
- writerjournalistscreenwriter
- Biography
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Belén Ruiz de Gopegui Durán is a Spanish novelist and screenwriter.
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Fernando García de Cortázar
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Fernando García de Cortázar y Ruiz de Aguirre was a Spanish Jesuit priest and historian.
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Rafael Yuste
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- 1982-1987 graduated with Doctor of Medicine in medicine
- Occupations
- neurobiologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Rafael Yuste is a Spanish–American neurobiologist and one of the initiators of the BRAIN Initiative announced in 2013. He is currently a professor at Columbia University.
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Carmen Moriyón
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Studied in 1999-2001
- Occupations
- oncologistpolitician
- Biography
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María del Carmen Moriyón Entrialgo is a Spanish surgeon and politician.
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Diego López Garrido
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianeconomistlawyer
- Biography
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Diego López Garrido is a Spanish politician, university professor and Secretary of State for the European Union in the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, as well as a former minister of the Spanish government. He's currently Vice-president and Director at Fundación Alternativas.
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Ana de Miguel
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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Ana de Miguel Álvarez is a Spanish philosopher and feminist. Since 2005 she has been a titular professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at King Juan Carlos University of Madrid. She directs the course History of Feminist Theory at the Complutense University of Madrid's Instituto de Investigaciones Feministas.
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Román Escolano
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Román Escolano Olivares is a Spanish economist. He was Minister of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness of Spain in 2018 for 3 months until the approval of the motion of no-confidence against Rajoy. He was also vice president of the European Investment Bank between 2014 and 2018.
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América Valenzuela
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate in chemistry
- Occupations
- journalistscience journalist
- Biography
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América Jimena Valenzuela is a Spanish science journalist and science popularizer.
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Darío Villanueva
- Occupations
- professorliterary theoristwritercomparatistphilologist
- Biography
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Francisco Darío Villanueva Prieto is a Spanish literary theorist and critic. He has been a member of the Royal Spanish Academy (Spanish: Real Academia Española) since 2007, and he occupies the chair corresponding to the letter D. Secretary of the Academy from December 2009, he was elected director in 2014, post he held until January 2019.
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José Ángel Mañas
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate in history
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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José Ángel Mañas is a Spanish writer. Mañas is often included as a member of the generation of neorealist Spanish writers from the 1990s, along with Juan Gracia, Gabriela Bustelo, Ray Loriga and Lucía Etxebarria. His books have been translated into several languages.
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Fernando Álvarez de Miranda y Torres
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- politicianuniversity teacherlawyerdiplomatjurist
- Biography
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Fernando Álvarez de Miranda y Torres was a Spanish politician, lawyer, and university professor of Procedural Law. He was president of the Congress of Deputies from 1977 to 1979, the first after Spain's transition to democracy. From 1994 to 1999 he was Ombudsman of Spain.
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Jaime Alfonsín
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- In 1978 graduated with licentiate in law
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Jaime Alfonsín Alfonso is a Spanish state lawyer. Alfonsín served King Felipe VI for 30 years, first as Private Secretary to the Prince of Asturias from 1995 to 2014 and later as Private Secretary to the King from 2014 to 2024.
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María Ángeles Durán
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- sociologistuniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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María Ángeles Durán Heras is a Spanish sociologist best known for being a pioneer in research on unpaid work, the social situation of women and their social and work environment, health economics, and inequality in the use of time. She was the first woman to attain a chair of sociology in Spain, in 1982. She was one of the first researchers in her field who carried out works with a feminist perspective in the Spanish academic world. In 1979, she was the founder and director of the Women's Studies Seminar of the Autonomous University of Madrid, the first university institute for women's studies created in Spain. In 2002 she received the Pascual Madoz National Research Award in Economic and Legal Sciences. Retired in 2012, she is currently active at the Center for Human and Social Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) as an ad honorem researcher.
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Silvia Clemente Municio
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate degree in law
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Silvia Clemente Municio is a Spanish politician and civil servant. She is a member of the People's Party of Castile and León, and was the minister for the environment of the Junta of Castile and León from 2001 to 2003. She was appointed director general in charge of environmental quality on August 5, 1999. She was president of the Junta of Castile and León, from 2015 to 2019. She changed her obligation when she was appointed culture and tourism advisor in 2003. She was exercises the obligation of advisor to agriculture and livestock between 2007 and 2015. She announced her resignation as a member of the People's Party.
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Juan José Tamayo
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Juan José Tamayo is a Spanish theologian and professor of theology at the Charles III University of Madrid. He specializes in Catholic hierarchy but has broadened into Islamic studies. He has contributed to controversies about Opus Dei, and has written over 50 books. He is president of the Asociación de Teólogos Juan XXIII.
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José María Espejo-Saavedra Conesa
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- In 1999 graduated with licentiate degree in law
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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José María Espejo-Saavedra Conesa is a Spanish politician serving as Member of the Congress of Deputies and chair of the Congress' Committee on International Cooperation for Development since 2019. He is a member of the Citizens party.
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María José Segarra Crespo
- Occupations
- prosecutor
- Biography
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María José Segarra Crespo, is a Spanish jurist, Attorney General between 2018 and 2020. She began her career in the prosecutor's office in 1987. From 2004 to 2018 she was in charge of the Prosecutor's Office of Province of Seville.
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Eva Nogales
- Occupations
- biologistuniversity teacherbiophysicist
- Biography
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Eva Nogales is a Spanish-American biophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as head of the Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (2015–2020). She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
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Muhsin al-Ramli
- Occupations
- journalistlinguistpoetwritertranslator
- Biography
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Muhsin Al-Ramli is an expatriate Iraqi writer living in Madrid, Spain since 1995. He is a translator of several Spanish classics to Arabic. He produced the complete translation of Don Quixote from Spanish to Arabic. He teaches at the Saint Louis University Madrid Campus. He is the current editor of Alwah, a magazine of Arabic literature and thought, which he co-founded.
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Roberto Salvarezza
- Occupations
- politicianresearcherbiochemist
- Biography
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Roberto Carlos Salvarezza is an Argentine biochemist, researcher and politician. He was Argentina's Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation from 2019 to 2021, in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández.
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Alana S. Portero
- Occupations
- poetLGBTQ rights activisttheatrical directorwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Alana S. Portero is a Spanish writer, poet, playwright and stage director. She writes about culture, feminism and LGBT activism, with a special focus on trans women.
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José Folgado
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Graduated with doctorate in economics
- Occupations
- politiciansenior lecturereconomist
- Biography
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José Folgado Blanco was a Spanish businessman, economist and politician.
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Rosa García García
- Occupations
- mathematicianeconomist
- Biography
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Rosa García García, is a Spanish executive. She was CEO of Siemens Spain, president of German Chamber of Commerce in Spain, independent advisor for Acerinox. and Bankinter. Married with three children, she has spent most of her professional life in the United States.
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Marcos Giralt Torrente
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- writerliterary critic
- Biography
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Marcos Giralt Torrente is a Spanish writer.
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Ángeles Moreno Bau
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate in law
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Ángeles Moreno Bau is a Spanish diplomat who has been serving as ambassador of Spain to the United States since 2024.
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Carlos M. Duarte
- Occupations
- marine biologistbiologistoceanographer
- Biography
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Carlos Manuel Duarte is a marine ecologist conducting research on marine ecosystems globally, from polar to the tropical ocean and from near-shore to deep-sea ecosystems. His research addresses biodiversity in the oceans, the impacts of human activity on marine ecosystems, and the capacity of marine ecosystems to recover from these impacts. He is also interested in transdisciplinary research, collaborating with scientists and engineers across a broad range of fields to solve problems in the marine ecosystem and society. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and executive director of the Coral Research and Development Accelerator Platform.
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Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán Ramírez is a Spanish political scientist. She is a professor of political science and international relations at the Autonomous University of Madrid. She specializes in feminist political theory and the study of populism. In 2018, she became the Opinion Director of the newspaper El País.
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María José Montiel
- Occupations
- opera singermusician
- Biography
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María José Montiel is a Spanish mezzo-soprano opera singer born in Madrid. In 2011 she was awarded the Premio Teatro Campoamor for her interpretation of Carmen by the Fundación Premio Líricos Teatro Campoamor.
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Cristina Sánchez-Andrade
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Cristina Sánchez-Andrade is a Spanish writer and translator of partial English descent. In 2004 she won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for her work Ya no pisa la tierra tu rey (Your King No Longer Treads the Earth). Her 2014 novel Las Inviernas was a finalist for the Premio Herralde, and in translation (by Samuel Ritter as The Winterlings) won two English PEN awards.
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Teresa Rodrigo Anoro
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Teresa Rodrigo Anoro was a Spanish scientist who worked in particle physics. She worked at CERN, Fermilab and the Instituto de Física de Cantabria and was professor at the University of Cantabria. Whilst at CERN, Rodrigo worked on the Compact Muon Solenoid and research for the Higgs boson.
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Santiago Cabanas Ansorena
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Santiago Cabanas Ansorena is a Spanish retired diplomat.
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Txema Guijarro García
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Txema Guijarro García is a Spanish economist and politician of Podemos party. He currently serves as Member of the Congress of Deputies since 2016 and he chairs the Congress' Committee on Budget since 2019.
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Marta Arce Payno
- Occupations
- judoka
- Biography
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Marta Arce Payno is a B3 classified Spanish judo competitor who has represented Spain at the 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2024 Summer Paralympics where she has won a pair of silver medals and a pair of bronze medals.
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Marisol Casado Estupiñán
- Occupations
- triathlete
- Biography
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María de la Soledad Casado Estupiñán is a Spanish sports administrator and triathlete. She has been President of the International Triathlon Union since 2008, and as of 2017, she is the only female Spanish member of the International Olympic Committee. Marisol is the only woman to preside over an International Summer Sport Federation and one of (only) two in the entire Olympic program, the other being Kate Caithness of curling.
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Idoia Villanueva Ruiz
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Idoia Villanueva Ruiz is a Spanish politician and engineer. A member of Podemos, she serves as Member of the European Parliament integrated within the European United Left–Nordic Green Left political group since 2019. She previously was a member of the Senate of Spain from 2015 to 2019.
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Alfonso Valencia
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Alfonso Valencia is a Spanish biologist, ICREA Professor, current director of the Life Sciences department at Barcelona Supercomputing Center, of Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute, and coordinator of the data pillar of the Spanish Personalised Medicine initiative, IMPaCT. From 2015 to 2018, he was President of the International Society for Computational Biology.
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Guillermina Mekuy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Guillermina Mekuy Mba Obono is an Equatoguinean writer and politician who became a minister.
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Juan Moscoso del Prado
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Juan Moscoso del Prado Hernández is a Spanish economist and former politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) who served a member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies from 2004 to 2016, representing Navarre.
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Juan Gonzalez Gomez
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientistroboticistYouTuberuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Juan González Gómez "Obijuan" is a doctor in computer science and telecommunications publicly recognized for having become the first Spanish winner of the O'Reilly Open Source Award.
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Aitzole Araneta
- Occupations
- sexologistLGBTQ rights activist
- Biography
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Aitzole Araneta Zinkunegi is a Spanish sexologist and transfeminist activist.
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Carlos Aguilar
- Occupations
- opinion journalistwriterfilm criticjournalist
- Biography
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Carlos Aguilar is a Spanish film critic and novelist.
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Fernando Becker
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Graduated with Doctor of Economics
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Fernando Becker Zuazúa is a Spanish economist, executive, professor and politician. He has served as minister of Economy and Finance of the Junta of Castile and León (1991–1995) and as President of the Official Credit Institute (1996–1999).
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Alma Ezcurra
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alma Lucía Ezcurra Almansa is a Spanish politician of the People's Party (PP). She was elected to the Assembly of Madrid in 2023 and the European Parliament in 2024.
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Cassandra G. Extavour
- Born in
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Canada - Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- opera singerresearchergeneticist
- Biography
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Cassandra Extavour is a Canadian geneticist, researcher of organismic and evolutionary biology, professor of molecular and cell biology at Harvard University, and a classical singer. Her research has focused on evolutionary and developmental genetics. She is known for demonstrating that germ cells engage in cell to cell competition before becoming a gamete, which indicates that natural selection can affect and change genetic material before adult sex reproduction takes place. She was also the Director of EDEN, a National Science Foundation-funded research collaborative that encouraged scientists working on organisms other than the standard lab model organisms to share protocols and techniques.
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Marisol Soengas
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- microbiologistimmunologist
- Biography
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María S. Soengas (born 1968) is a Spanish immunologist who is a senior scientist at the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO). Her research considers melanoma and the development of new therapeutic strategies. She was elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2022.
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David Ortega Gutiérrez
- Occupations
- politicianjudge
- Biography
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David Ortega Gutiérrez is a Spanish academic and former politician. He served on the City Council of Madrid from 2011 to 2015, as leader of the Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) group.
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José María Portillo Valdés
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- In 1984 graduated with Licentiate in Geography and History
- In 1985 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacherhistorian
- Biography
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José María "Txema" Portillo Valdés is a Spanish historian, professor of Contemporary History at the University of the Basque Country. He is an expert in Spanish constitutional history.
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Estrella Galán
- Occupations
- politicianhuman rights activist
- Biography
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Estrella Galán Pérez is a Spanish human rights activist who is the director general of the Spanish Commission for Refugee Aid (CEAR). She was Sumar's lead candidate for the 2024 European Parliament election in Spain, and was elected a Member of the European Parliament, where she joined the parliamentary group of The Left.
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Leticia González
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- In 1998 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- university teacherchemistscientist
- Biography
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Leticia González Herrero is a theoretical chemist, known for her work on molecular excited states, especially ultrafast dynamics of DNA nucleobases and highly accurate simulations of transition metal complexes.
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Eulalia Pérez Sedeño
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Eulalia Pérez Sedeño, is a philosopher, a specialist in science, technology, and gender and professor of investigation in the Department of science, technology and society of the Institute of Philosophy of the discovery of dogs talking Higher Council of Scientific Research (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC).
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Inés María Cañizares Pacheco
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Inés María Cañizares Pacheco is a Spanish economist and politician for the Vox party. She has been a member of the Congress of Deputies since November 2019 for the Toledo constituency.
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Adriana Maldonado López
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Adriana Maldonado López is a Spanish politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
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Sergio Mena
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Sergio Mena is a Spanish journalist and university professor.
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Selena Millares
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Studied in 1996
- Occupations
- poetessayistnovelistwriterphilologist
- Biography
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Selena Millares is a Spanish writer and professor.
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Luis Vega
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Luis Vega González is a Spanish mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations.
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Eduardo Garzón
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- In 2021 graduated with Doctor
- Occupations
- science communicatoruniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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Eduardo Garzón Espinosa is a Spanish economist and university professor.
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Sonia Antoranz Contera
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teachernanotechnologist
- Biography
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Sonia Antoranz Contera is a Spanish physicist. She serves as Professor of Biological Physics at the University of Oxford, a senior fellow at the Oxford Martin School, and a senior research fellow at Green Templeton College.
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Raúl Rabadán
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- biologistuniversity teacherphysicistcomputer scientisttheoretical physicist
- Biography
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Raúl Rabadán is a Spanish-American theoretical physicist and computational biologist. He is currently the Gerald and Janet Carrus Professor in the Department of Systems Biology, Biomedical Informatics and Surgery at Columbia University. He is the director of the Program for Mathematical Genomics at Columbia University and previously the director of the Center for Topology of Cancer Evolution and Heterogeneity (2015-2021). He is also the co-leader of the Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics Program at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University. At Columbia, he leads a highly interdisciplinary team of researchers from the fields of mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering, and medicine, with the common goal of solving pressing biomedical problems through quantitative computational models. Rabadan's current interest focuses on uncovering patterns of evolution in biological systems—in particular, viruses and cancer.
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Marina Logares
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Marina Logares Jiménez is a Spanish mathematician and LGBT+ activist. She was named one of the 50 most influential LGBT+ people in Spain in 2019.
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Fernando Alfageme
- Occupations
- dermatologistscience communicatorphysician
- Biography
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Fernando Alfageme Roldán is a Spanish dermatologist. He introduced the diagnostic technique of cutaneous ultrasound in Spain, is an associate professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid, and is responsible for the Dermatological Ultrasound Unit at the Puerta de Hierro University Hospital in Majadahonda. He has authored several essays, manuals and academic articles about dermatology.
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Rocio de la Villa
- Occupations
- art historianresearcherprofessorart critic
- Biography
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Rocio de la Villa is a Spanish university professor, art historian, curator, researcher and art critic. She has edited and collaborated in the edition of distinct catalogues and publications related with the art and the position of the woman in the artistic world. In 2014 she was rewarded with the Prize MAV in the modality of Criticism of art. She also goes by the names Rocio de la Villa Ardura and Rocio Villa-Ardura.
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Elisa Herrero Uceda
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Elisa Herrero Uceda is a Spanish writer. She is committed to the defence of the environment and the conservation of folk culture. She has written articles and books on natural and folk culture.
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Rosalía Gonzalo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rosalía Gonzalo López is a Spanish politician, member of the People's Party (PP).
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Rafa Casette
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Rafa Casette is a Spanish actor and singer. His career began aged 30 in a Spanish zarzuela called La Verbena de la Paloma in 1995. After his participation in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Stephen Sondheim in 2009 at the Teatro Español de Madrid, he has been involved continuously in audiovisual projects, including his first lead role in the upcoming film La mujer que hablaba con los muertos (The woman who talked to the dead) by director César del Álamo.
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María Escudero Escribano
- Occupations
- chemical engineer
- Biography
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María Escudero-Escribano is a Spanish chemist. Her research considers the design of materials for catalysis, fuel cells and sustainable chemistry. She works at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) as an ICREA Research Professor since September 2022. Formerly she was director of the Nano-Electrochemical group at the University of Copenhagen.
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Elena Ramírez Parra
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 47)
- Occupations
- biologistmolecular biologistbotanist
- Biography
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Elena Ramírez Parra is a Spanish botanist and researcher who studies the negative effects of environmental stress (drought, salinity of the soil, excess radiation, presence of heavy metals and the high and low temperatures) on plant growth. Applications of her research include improving harvest yield. In 2010, Ramírez won a L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science.
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Gabriel Mato Adrover
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gabriel Mato Adrover is a Spanish People's Party politician. He has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2009.
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Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana
- Occupations
- ethnobotanistbotanist
- Biography
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Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana is a Bolivian ethnobotanist. She investigates the use and protection of traditional knowledge of plants in indigenous communities, particularly in the Bolivian Andes. She is currently an Associated Researcher at the Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Mayor de San Andres in Bolivia. Her goal is giving them the knowledge to participate in decision-making on the conservation of their intangible cultural heritage.
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Ana Luisa Martínez-Collado
- Occupations
- art historianart theorist
- Biography
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Ana Martínez Collado is a Spanish art theorist, feminist and writer on aesthetics.
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Siomara España Muñoz
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Siomara España Muñoz is an Ecuadorian poet, essayist, professor and literary critic. She is director of the area of Literature of the House of Culture Núcleo del Guayas.
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Joan Robledo-Palop
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- art collector
- Biography
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Joan Robledo-Palop is an art historian, entrepreneur and art collector born in Valencia, Spain, and based in New York, USA.
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Javier Hurtado
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Studied law
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Javier Hurtado Domínguez is a Spanish politician. On 7 September 2020, he was appointed minister of tourism, commerce and consumption in the Basque Government led by Iñigo Urkullu. He is affiliated with the Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left party.
