100 Notable alumni of
Technical University of Madrid
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The Technical University of Madrid is 527th in the world, 197th in Europe, and 12th in Spain by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Technical 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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Rafa Benítez
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football manager
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Rafael Benítez Maudes is a Spanish professional football manager and former player. He was most recently the manager of La Liga club Celta Vigo.
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Juan Mata
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- association football player
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Juan Manuel Mata García is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for A-League Men club Western Sydney Wanderers. He primarily plays as an attacking midfielder, but can also play as a winger.
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Josep Borrell
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Madrid
- 1964-1969 studied aeronautical engineering
- Occupations
- engineereconomistpoliticiandiplomattrade unionist
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Josep Borrell Fontelles is a Spanish politician who served as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission from 2019 to 2024. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), he served as President of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2007 and as Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation from 2018 to 2019.
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Rocío Monasterio
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Madrid
- Studied in 1992-2009
- Occupations
- architectpolitician
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Rocío Monasterio San Martín is a Spanish-Cuban architect, businesswoman and politician. The leader of the Madrid branch of the center-right Spanish political party Vox, she served as a member of the 11th term of the Assembly of Madrid until October 10, 2024, when she resigned from all her political posts after being removed from the leadership of the party in the region by the national leadership.
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Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo
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- engineerpolitician
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Leopoldo Ramón Pedro Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo, 1st Marquess of Ría de Ribadeo, usually known as Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, was Prime Minister of Spain between 1981 and 1982.
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Pedro Duque
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Madrid
- In 1986 graduated with licentiate
- Occupations
- astronautpoliticianengineer
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Pedro Francisco Duque Duque, OF, OMSE is a Spanish astronaut and aeronautics engineer who served as minister of Science from 2018 to 2021 and member of the Congress of Deputies, representing Alicante, from May 2019 until February 2020.
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Enrique Cerezo
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- writerbusinesspersonsports executivefilm producer
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Enrique Cerezo Torres [enˈrike θeˈɾeθo], is a Spanish film producer and the current president of Atlético Madrid, a position he has held since 2002.
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Eduardo Chillida
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- association football playergraphic artistdraftspersonsculptorvisual artist
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Eduardo Chillida Juantegui was a Spanish Basque sculptor notable for his abstract works.
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Práxedes Mateo Sagasta
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- engineerpoliticiancivil engineer
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Práxedes Mariano Mateo Sagasta y Escolar was a Spanish civil engineer and politician who served as Prime Minister on eight occasions between 1870 and 1902—always in charge of the Liberal Party—as part of the turno pacifico, alternating with the Conservative leader Antonio Cánovas. He was known as an excellent orator.
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Carolina Bang
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- modelmanufacturerfilm produceractor
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Carolina Herrera Bang is a Spanish actress and film producer. She was nominated for the Goya Award for Best New Actress in 2010.
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José Echegaray
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- politicianwriterplaywrightcivil engineereconomist
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José Echegaray y Eizaguirre was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century. He was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama".
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Ildefons Cerdà
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Madrid
- 1835-1841 graduated with engineering
- Occupations
- engineercivil engineerpoliticianarchitecturban planner
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Ildefons Cerdà Sunyer was a Spanish urban planner and civil engineer who designed the 19th-century "extension" of Barcelona called the Eixample. Because of his extensive theoretical and practical work, he is considered the founder of modern town planning as a discipline, having coined the word "urbanization".
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Rafael Moneo
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- architect
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José Rafael Moneo Vallés is a Spanish architect. He won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1996, the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 2003, and La Biennale's Golden Lion in 2021.
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Leonardo Torres Queved
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- inventorpoliticiancomputer scientistEsperantistengineer
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Leonardo Torres Quevedo was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician and inventor, known for his numerous engineering innovations, including aerial trams, airships, catamarans, and remote control. He was also a pioneer in the field of computing and robotics. Torres was a member of several scientific and cultural institutions and held such important positions as the seat N of the Real Academia Española (1920–1936) and the presidency of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences (1928–1934). In 1927 he became a foreign associate of the French Academy of Sciences.
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Eufemiano Fuentes Rodríguez
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate in Facultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte
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- gynecologistsports physician
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Eufemiano Fuentes is a Spanish sports doctor who was implicated in the Operación Puerto doping case.
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Sandra Sánchez
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- karateka
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Sandra Sánchez Jaime is a retired Spanish karateka. She won the gold medal in the women's kata event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She is a two-time gold medallist in the women's individual kata event at the World Karate Championships (2018 and 2021). She also won the gold medal in this event at the European Karate Championships in seven consecutive competitions (2015 – 2022). She is also recognised by Guinness World Records for winning the most medals in the Karate1 Premier League; she won 35 consecutive medals between January 2014 and February 2020.
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Félix Candela
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- university teacherarchitectpainterengineer
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Félix Candela Outeriño was a Spanish and Mexican architect who was born in Madrid and at the age of 26, emigrated to Mexico, acquiring double nationality.
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Juan Miguel Villar Mir
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- businesspersonpoliticianhighway engineer
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Juan-Miguel Villar Mir, 1st Marquess of Villar Mir was a Spanish billionaire businessman, politician, and the chairman and CEO of the construction company Obrascón Huarte Lain.
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Forges
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- caricaturistfilm directoreditorial cartoonistcomics artist
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Antonio Fraguas de Pablo, better known as Forges, was a Spanish graphic humorist. His artistic name is based on the translation to Catalan of the word fraguas.
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Isabel García Tejerina
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- politicianeconomistjuristlawyer
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Isabel García Tejerina is a Spanish politician of the PP.
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Ángel Garrido
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Madrid
- Graduated with mining engineering
- Occupations
- politician
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Ángel Garrido García is a Spanish politician who served as President of the Community of Madrid between April 2018 and April 2019. He was a member of the People's Party until 24 April 2019, only four days ahead of the 2019 Spanish general election, when he announced he was joining Citizens.
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Francisco Álvarez-Cascos
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- politiciancivil engineer
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Francisco Álvarez–Cascos Fernández is a Spanish politician. He was Secretary-General of the ruling Partido Popular from 1989 to 1999 and the President of the Principality of Asturias from 2011 to 2012.
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Rafael del Pino Calvo-Sotelo
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- businesspersonengineer
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Rafael del Pino Calvo-Sotelo is a Spanish billionaire businessman, the executive chairman of Ferrovial, the company founded in 1952 by his father Rafael del Pino Moreno.
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Álvaro del Portillo
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- engineercivil engineerLatin Catholic priestlawyerCatholic bishop
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Álvaro del Portillo y Diez de Sollano was a Spanish Catholic bishop and engineer who served as the prelate of Opus Dei between 1982 and 1994.
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Alfonso Sastre
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- screenwriterplaywrighttelevision writeractorwriter
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Alfonso Sastre was a Spanish playwright, essayist, and critic associated with the Generation of '36 movement. He was an outspoken critic of censorship during the reign of General Francisco Franco and the ensuing political regime arising from the 1978 Constitution altogether. His most noteworthy plays include Death Squad (1953), The Gag (1954), Death Thrust (1960), and Tragicomedy of the Gypsy Celestina (1984).
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Antonio Palacios Ramilo
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- urban plannerarchitect
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Antonio Palacios Ramilo was a Spanish architect. Distinguished by the monumental eclecticism he left as imprint in many of his projects, he helped define the architectural identity of Madrid in the first half of the 20th century.
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Eduardo Torroja
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- engineercivil engineerarchitect
- Biography
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Eduardo Torroja y Miret, 1st Marques of Torroja was a Spanish structural engineer and a pioneer in the design of concrete shell structures.
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Elena Salgado
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- politicianeconomist
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Elena Salgado Méndez is a Spanish politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Spain and held several ministerial portfolios during her political career.
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Pío García-Escudero
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Madrid
- In 1979 studied architecture
- Occupations
- architectpolitician
- Biography
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Pío García-Escudero Márquez, 4th Count of Badarán is a Spanish architect and politician who served as the 59th President of the Senate of Spain from 2011 to 2019. Since 21 May 2019, Escudero has served as the Second Vice President of the Senate.
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Alberto Campo Baeza
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- architect
- Biography
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Alberto Campo Baeza is a Spanish architect and Full-Time Design Professor at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid from 1986 to 2017. He retired the same year. He has built a number of buildings that have received awards.
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Damián Quintero
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Damián Hugo Quintero Capdevila is a Spanish karateka. He won the silver medal in the men's kata event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. He is also a four-time silver medalist in the individual kata event at the World Championships, a seven-time gold medalist in his event at the European Championships and a three-time gold medalist in this event at the European Games.
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Imanol Pradales
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Madrid
- 1998-1999 graduated with master's degree in knowledge management
- Occupations
- politiciansociologistuniversity teacher
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Imanol Pradales Gil is a Basque sociologist, university teacher and politician from Spain, member of the Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV). He serves as Lehendakari of the Basque Government from 2024.
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Miguel Fisac
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- painterurban plannerarchitect
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Miguel Fisac Serna was a Spanish architect, urban planner, and painter. He was a member of Opus Dei from 1935 to 1955, but later publicly criticized that organization as well as the character of its founder, Mons. Josemaría Escrivá.
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Jesús Posada
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Madrid
- Graduated with highway engineer
- Occupations
- civil engineerpoliticianeconomist
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Jesús Posada Moreno is the former President of the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Spanish Cortes Generales. He has worked as a civil engineer and economist.
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Pablo Abián
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- badminton playeruniversity teacherOlympic competitornon-fiction writerphysical education teacher
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Pablo Abián Vicén is a Spanish badminton player. He was the men's singles gold medalists at the 2015 European Games, 2018 and 2022 Mediterranean Games.
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Ángel Cabrera
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- managereconomistacademic
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Ángel Cabrera Izquierdo is a Spanish-American academic. He is the 12th and current president of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously, he was the president of George Mason University and of the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and the former dean of IE Business School. His scholarship includes work on learning, management and leadership.
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Yayo Herrero
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- environmentalistwomen's rights activistanthropologistuniversity teacheractivist
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Yayo Herrero López is a Spanish anthropologist, engineer, professor and ecofeminist activist. She is one of the most influential researchers in ecofeminism and ecosocialism at European level.
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Jaime Caruana
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- engineerpoliticianeconomist
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Jaime Caruana is a Spanish economist. He served as the General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements from 1 April 2009 to 30 November 2017. He was also the Governor of the Bank of Spain from July 2000 to July 2006.
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Elena García Armada
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- engineerindustrial engineerroboticist
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Elena Garcia Armada is a Spanish researcher, roboticist, business founder and industrial engineer who leads the CSIC group at the Center for Automation and Robotics, (CAR) CSIC-UPM that has developed the first bionic exoskeleton for children with spinal muscular atrophy, for which she received the European Inventor Award Popular Prize in 2022.
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Fernando Higueras
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- architect
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Fernando de Higueras Díaz was a Spanish architect. He was one of the most famous architects in the world during the 1970s. He was born in Madrid. He graduated as an architect from the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid in 1959. His work is recognized worldwide as an original and interesting union of constructivist, rationalist and organic architecture. Higueras was also a musician, a painter and photographer. He died in Madrid, at the age of 77.
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Antonio Lamela
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- architect
- Biography
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Antonio Lamela Martínez was a Spanish architect.
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Pedro Muguruza
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- architectpolitician
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Pedro Muguruza Otaño was a Spanish architect and Falangist politician.
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Alberto Cárdenas
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- politicianminister
- Biography
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Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez is a Mexican politician affiliated with the conservative National Action Party (PAN). He is a former governor of Jalisco, (1995 – 2001). And Secretary of Agriculture in the cabinet of Felipe Calderón (1 December 2006 – 7 September 2009). In 2006 he was elected to the Senate for PAN, representing the state of Jalisco, with his term running until 2012.
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Alejandro Zaera-Polo
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- architect
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Alejandro Zaera Polo is a Spanish architect, theorist and founder of Alejandro Zaera-Polo & Maider Llaguno Architecture. He was formerly dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture and of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam.
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Nuria Oliver
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Madrid
- 1990-1994 graduated with telecommunications engineering degree
- Occupations
- computer scientistdirector
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Nuria Oliver is a computer scientist. She is the director of the ELLIS Alicante Foundation, Chief Data Scientist at DataPop Alliance, and president of the board of trustees of UNED. Previously, she was an independent director on the board of directors of Bankia, Commissioner of the Presidency of Valencia for AI and COVID-19, Director of Data Science Research at Vodafone, Scientific Director at Telefónica and researcher at Microsoft Research. She holds a PhD from the Media Lab at MIT, and is an IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, a member of the board of ELLIS, and elected permanent member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain. She is one of the most cited female computer scientists in Spain, with her research having been cited by more than 24,000 publications. She is well known for her work in computational models of human behavior, human computer-interaction, mobile computing and big data for social good.
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Àngel Ros
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Madrid
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- politicianphysicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Àngel Ros i Domingo is a Spanish politician and statesman. He was Mayor of Lleida from 2004 to 2018. He is the president of Socialists' Party of Catalonia since 25 July 2014 until 2019, and Ambassador of Spain to Andorra since 3 August 2018.
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Felip Puig Godes
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- engineerpolitician
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Felip Puig Godes is a counselor for Enterprise and Employment who served in the past as the interior counselor of the region of Catalonia in Spain from 2010 to 2012. Previously, he had been environment counselor (1999–2001) and public works counselor (2001–2003). From 2002 to 2003 he also held the post of the regional government's spokesman. Earlier positions in the regional government include secretary general of the Welfare Counseling Office and chairman and managing director of ADIGSA, a former public corporation managing public housing.
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Francisco de Cubas
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- architect
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Francisco de Cubas y González-Montes was a Spanish architect and politician. He was also known as the Marquis of Cubas (Marqués de Cubas) after his noble title, the marquisate of Cubas. He was also from 1894 the Marquis of Fontalba.
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Pedro Martínez Losa
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- association football manager
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Pedro Martínez Losa is a Spanish football coach and sporting director, who is currently the head coach of the Tigres Femenil. Known primarily for his prominence within women's football, Martínez Losa has won major trophies in his native Spain with Rayo Vallecano Femenino, and in England with Arsenal Women.
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Rafael de La-Hoz Castanys
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- architect
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Rafael de La-Hoz Castanys is a Spanish architect.
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Ignacio Prendes
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- politician
- Biography
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José Ignacio Prendes Prendes is a Spanish politician and member of Congress of the Deputies with the Citizens-Party of the Citizenry party (C's). Since 21 May 2019, he has been the Fourth Vice President of the Congress of Deputies.
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José María Oriol
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- businesspersonpoliticianindustrial engineer
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José María de Oriol y Urquijo, 3rd Marquis of Casa Oriol was a Spanish entrepreneur and a Carlist and Francoist politician. During early Francoism a mayor of Bilbao, he is known mostly for his business activity, especially for his role in the Spanish energy industry, TALGO train development and the banking sector. He is counted among the most influential Spanish business managers of the 20th century.
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Andrés Jaque
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- deanarchitect
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Andrés Jaque is a Spanish architect, writer and curator. In 2016, he was awarded with the 10th Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts., in 2024 he won the UNESCO Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, and in 2014, the Silver Lion to the Best Project at the 14th Venice Biennale. His work explores architecture as a cosmopolitical practice. In 2003, he founded the Office for Political Innovation, a trandisciplinary agency working in the intersection of design, research and environmental activism.
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Francisco Menéndez González
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Madrid
- Graduated with telecommunications engineering degree
- Occupations
- game programmersoftware developertelecommunications engineer
- Biography
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Francisco "Paco" Menéndez was a Spanish computer game programmer who wrote games for 8-bit computers. His most famous work is La abadía del crimen which is regarded as one of the best games made for the ZX Spectrum.
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Mateo Valero Cortés
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Madrid
- Graduated with telecommunications engineering degree
- Occupations
- university teachercomputer scientisttelecommunications engineer
- Biography
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Mateo Valero Cortés is a Spanish computer architect. His research encompasses different concepts within the field of computer architecture, a discipline in which he has published more than 700 papers in journals, conference proceedings, and books. Valero has received numerous awards, including the Eckert–Mauchly Award in 2007. As of 2024 he is the director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, which hosts the MareNostrum supercomputer.
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José Manuel López Rodrigo
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- agricultural engineerpolitician
- Biography
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José Manuel López Rodrigo is a Spanish activist and politician. He has been a member of the 10th Assembly of Madrid in the Podemos parliamentary group.
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Luis Moreno Mansilla
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- university teacherarchitect
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Luis M. Mansilla, was a Spanish architect. He graduated from the E.T.S.A.M. on 1982, and obtained the Ph. degree on 1998. In 1984 he was fellow of the Spanish Academy in Rome, and in 1987 obtained the Swedish Institute Scholarship in Stockholm. During the 1980s, he actively participated in the cultural scene of the so-called “La Movida”. A time when he developed enduring friendships with artists Sigfrido Martín Begué and Guillermo Pérez Villalta, that would strongly influence his own work. In 1992, Luis M. Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón establish the architecture firm Mansilla + Tuñón Architects, that would be operating until short after his passing. The office worked at the intersection of theory, pedagogy and practice. It received the Spanish Architecture Award in 2003 and 2017, and the Mies van der Rohe prize in 2007.
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Manuel Alonso
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- tennis playerhighway engineer
- Biography
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Manuel Alonso de Areizaga was a Spanish tennis player. He was the first Spanish tennis player of international stature.
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Valeria Castro
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Madrid
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in biotechnology
- Occupations
- singersongwriter
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Valeria Castro Rodríguez is a Spanish singer and songwriter. In 2023, she was nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards in the Best Singer-Songwriter Song category for "La Raíz", a song composed for the island of La Palma after the Cumbre Vieja volcano erupted in 2021. She was the winner of the award for Best Song of the Year at the 2023 Canarian Music Awards and nominated for the 2024 Goya Awards in the category of Best Original Song together with the band Vetusta Morla for "El Amor de Andrea".
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Matilde Ucelay
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Madrid
- Studied in 1931-1936
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Matilde Ucelay Maortúa was the first woman licensed in architecture in Spain. She was awarded the Premio Nacional de Arquitectura de España (National Architecture Award of Spain) in 2004.
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Alonso José Puerta
- Occupations
- politicianhighway engineer
- Biography
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Alonso José Puerta Gutiérrez is a Spanish politician.
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Isidoro Zorzano
- Occupations
- industrial engineer
- Biography
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Isidoro Zorzano Ledesma was a Spanish Catholic layman who was a member of Opus Dei.
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Jerome Guillen
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Jérôme M. Guillen is a transport executive working in automotive manufacturing. He holds a Doctor of Engineering from the University of Michigan and has worked for Freightliner Trucks, Daimler AG and Tesla, Inc. Guillen previously studied in France at ENSTA Paris. Guillen worked at Tesla, Inc. for ten years between 2010 and 2021, including as President of Automotive, having previously led both the Tesla Model S and Tesla Semi manufacturing programmes.
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Emilio Tuñón
- Occupations
- university teacherarchitect
- Biography
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Emilio Tuñón Álvarez is a Spanish architect. In 2014, Mansilla + Tuñón Architects received the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (Spain) from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
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Juan Herreros
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Juan Herreros is a Spanish architect.
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Irene de Miguel
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Irene de Miguel Pérez is a Spanish Podemos politician. She was elected to the Assembly of Extremadura in 2015, and has led Podemos Extremadura in the legislature since 2019.
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Narciso Pascual Colomer
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Narciso Pascual Colomer, also known as Narciso Pascual y Colomer, was a Spanish architect. He was one of the most important of the reign of Isabella II, an exponent of the late Neoclassicism and historicist styles. He was a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando along with Enrique María Repullés and Ricardo Velázquez Bosco.
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Alejandro de Pinedo
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Madrid
- Graduated with telecommunications engineering degree
- Occupations
- composerrecord producer
- Biography
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Alejandro Gil Pinedo, better known as Alejandro de Pinedo is a Spanish musician, composer, author, music producer, chill-out music artist and CEO of the record company AGP Music. His music is heard in more than 200 countries and there are more than 300 record productions in which he has participated in one or another way. He has 31 gold and platinum records so far, and his works are played millions of times on all digital platforms globally. He has worked with big names in Latin pop music, like Enrique Iglesias, Rosa López, Raphael, Daniel Diges, Georgie Dann, Pitingo, Café del Mar, Vicky Larraz, Olé-Olé, Cristina Ramos, Maria Villalón, Soraya Arnelas, Paloma San Basilio, Falete, Sada Vidoo, Roko, Enrique Ramil, La Década Prodigiosa, Modestia Aparte, Raúl, etc etc. In 1995, he started recording tracks in his own studio and founded the music label AGP Music. In 2004, he began his career as a Chill Out artist, where he has a place as a respected musician throughout the world. He is Musical Director in BulldogTV, producers of Bailando con las Estrellas Spanish version of Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing with the Stars in Tele 5, Spain.
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Lucas Mallada
- Occupations
- mining engineerwriteruniversity teachergeologist
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Lucas Mallada y Pueyo was a Spanish geologist and mining engineer. He is considered the most important Spanish geologist of the second half of the 19th century and the founder of Spanish scientific paleontology.
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Marta Tejedor
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Marta Tejedor Munuera is a Spanish football coach who most recently managed Birmingham City of the FA Women's Super League.
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Modesto López Otero
- Occupations
- teacherarchitect
- Biography
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Modesto López Otero was a Spanish architect. He taught for many years in the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid. He directed construction of the Madrid University City, much of which was damaged during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). He designed many houses, office buildings, monuments and churches. The Arco de la Victoria (1956) celebrates the victory of the Nationalist forces led by General Francisco Franco over the Republicans.
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Antonio Luque López
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacherengineer
- Biography
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Antonio Luque López is a Spanish scientist and entrepreneur in the field of photovoltaic solar energy. In 1979 he founded the Institute of Solar Energy of the Technical University of Madrid (IES-UPM) and was its director till his retirement in 2017; he is currently its honorary president as well as professor emeritus in this university. He invented the bifacial solar cell in the late 1970s, today one of the mainstream solar cell technologies, and founded Isofoton in 1981 for its industrial production. He is, arguably, one of the fathers of the science and technology of concentrator photovoltaics and has been active in the research and development of high-efficiency photovoltaic conversion devices, inventing the intermediate band solar cell.
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Carlos Lamela
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Carlos Lamela de Vargas is a Spanish architect, owner and executive president of Estudio Lamela.
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Fuensanta Nieto
- Occupations
- university teacherarchitect
- Biography
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Fuensanta Nieto de la Cierva is a Spanish architect. She is known for her work as a partner of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, a firm which she co-founded in 1984.
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Joseph Muzquiz
- Occupations
- highway engineerhistorianjuristLatin Catholic priest
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Joseph Muzquiz was a Spanish Catholic priest who was an early member of Opus Dei. He worked to establish the movement around the world. The cause for his canonization was opened by the Archdiocese of Boston in 2011.
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Javier Perez-Tenessa
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Mexico - Occupations
- musicianmilitary flight engineer
- Biography
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Javier Pérez-Tenessa is a Mexican entrepreneur, businessman, investor, composer and producer based in Barcelona, Spain, who has founded several companies, including publicly traded eDreams and Venture Capital firm 4Founders Capital.
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Daniel Peña
- Occupations
- engineerstatisticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Daniel Peña Sánchez de Rivera is a Spanish engineer and statistician.
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Jon de Cortina
- Occupations
- university teacherCatholic priestengineermissionary
- Biography
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Jon Cortina Garaigorta, S.J. was a Jesuit priest, engineer, and activist, founder of Pro-Búsqueda, an organization dedicated to searching for the missing children of the Salvadoran Civil War. He was a professor at Central American University (UCA), the Jesuit university of El Salvador, and escaped the massacre of the Jesuit community at the university in November 1989.
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Martín Domínguez Esteban
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Martín Domínguez Esteban was a Spanish architect.
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Arturo Berned
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Madrid
- Studied in 1993
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Arturo Berned, is a Spanish sculptor whose works are conceived on the basis of mathematical laws and geometrical layouts charged with symbolism. In 1993 he graduated in Architecture, a profession that he exercised for several years and then combined with his love of sculpture. In the year 2000 he began to dedicate himself entirely to sculpture.
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Ramón Iribarren Cavanilles
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- coastal engineerhighway engineer
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Ramón Iribarren Cavanilles Ing.D was a Spanish civil engineer and professor of ports at the School of Civil Engineering (Spanish: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, ETSICCP) in Madrid. He was chairman of the Spanish delegation to the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses (PIANC) and was elected as an academic at the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, although he did not take up the latter position. He made notable contributions in the field of coastal engineering, including methods for the calculation of breakwater stability and research which led to the development of the Iribarren number.
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José Luis López de Silanes
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- businessperson
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José Luis López de Silanes, Spanish businessman, holds a degree in industrial engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and followed the Management Development Programme at the IESE business school.
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Joaquín Yarza Luaces
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- medievalistuniversity teacherwriterhistorianart historian
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Joaquín Yarza Luaces was a Spanish art historian. Professor Yarza began his professional career in Madrid. He began his work as a teacher in Barcelona in 1974, where he later died. Since then, he has been a guide to medieval studies with special prominence in Renaissance subjects.
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Elena de la Cruz Martín
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- politician
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Elena de la Cruz Martín was the Minister of the Public Works of Castilla-La Mancha from July 2015 until her death on April 4, 2017.
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Carmen Espegel
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- university teacherarchitect
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Carmen Espegel Alonso is a Doctor of Architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (Spain), where she teaches Architectural Project classes representing the Espegel Teaching Unit. She has been working at her own studio since 1985 and in 2003 she founded the firm espegel-fisac arquitectos. Her reference work, "Heroines of Space. Women Architects in the Modern Movement" (Spanish: Heroínas del Espacio. Mujeres arquitectos en el Movimiento Moderno), is a theoretical and historical synthesis of the role of women in Architecture.
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Marie André Destarac
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- electrical engineer
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Marie André Destarac Eguizabal is a Guatemalan scientist who specializes in engineering, electronics and robotics. Her goal is to apply her engineering knowledge and expertise in medicine projects. In 2015, Destarac received an MIT award named "Innovators under 35 in Central America" an acknowledgement by the MIT Technology Review magazine. She was the only woman to get the award. It's an active member of the Organization For Women In Science For The Developing World, chapter Guatemala (OWSD GT) executing and planning events to decrease the gender gap, so girls and women can study careers in STEM.
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Arturo Azcorra
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- computer scientist
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Arturo Azcorra is a Spanish scientist and telecommunications engineer who is recognized as a pioneer of internet and network science research in Spain, as well as a promoter of telematics as a scientific and academic discipline born from the integration of telecommunications and informatics.
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Mario Gerardo Piattini Velthuis
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Madrid
- Graduated with Computer Doctor
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- writercomputer scientistteacher
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Mario Gerardo Piattini Velthuis. He is a computer scientist with diverse research in the field of systems and software engineering, founder of the Alarcos Research Group.
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Elisa Herrero Uceda
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- writer
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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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Miguel Herrero Uceda
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- naturalistwriter
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Miguel Herrero Uceda is a writer, lecturer and natural scientist committed to the defence of the environment and the conservation of popular traditional culture. He has a PhD in artificial intelligence and was a professor at Universidad Complutense of Madrid. He is a promoter of the natural philosophy "arbotherapy", a therapy to combat the stress and the anxiety generated by modern world.
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Agustín Maravall
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- economist
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Agustín Maravall Herrero is a Spanish economist. He is known for his contributions to the analysis of statistics and econometrics, particularly in seasonal adjustment and the estimation of signals in economic time series. He created a methodology and several computer programs for such analysis that are used throughout the world by analysts, researchers, and data producers. Maravall retired in December 2014 from the Bank of Spain.
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Marcos Ros Sempere
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- politician
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Marcos Ros Sempere, is a Spanish politician, professor and architect, current Member of the European Parliament for the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
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Jerónimo de la Gándara
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- architect
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Jerónimo de la Gándara was a Spanish architect who designed a number of public buildings during the reign of Isabella II of Spain.
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Nerea Calvillo
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- architectprofessor
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Nerea Calvillo is a Spanish architect and researcher who investigates the intersection between architecture, science and technology, as well as feminist studies, new materials and urban political ecology. Specialized in the research of the visual representation of air in the atmosphere, she constructs graphic diagrams for the visualization of invisible microscopic agents in the air and thus influences the improvement of air quality. This project is called "In the Air". In 2023, Columbia university published the essay Aeropolis, Queering Air in Toxixpolluted Worlds.
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Juan Pavón
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- engineercomputer scientistartificial intelligence researcher
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Juan Pavón is a Spanish computer scientist, full professor of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He is a pioneer researcher in the field of Software Agents, co-creator of the FIPA MESSAGE and INGENIAS methodologies, and founder and director of the research group GRASIA: GRoup of Agent-based, Social and Interdisciplinary Applications at UCM. He is known for his work in the field of Artificial Intelligence, specifically in agent-oriented software engineering. He has been often cited by mainstream media, as a reference in Artificial Intelligence.
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Soledad Núñez
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- civil engineerpolitician
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María Soledad Núñez Méndez is a Paraguayan civil engineer and politician. She was the candidate for vice president of Paraguay for the Concertación political alliance in the 2023 general elections as the running mate of Efraín Alegre, losing to both Santiago Peña and Pedro Alliana of the Colorado Party in an electoral landslide.
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Sergio Castiglione
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- photographer
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Sergio Castiglione is an Argentine photographer. He has exhibited his work in Argentina as well as abroad. He mainly focuses on urban exploration, travel, and architectural photography.
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Gustavo Scheps
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- painterarchitect
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Juan Gustavo Scheps Grandal is a Uruguayan architect and professor.
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Àngel Fabregat
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- poetwriter
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Àngel Fabregat Morera is a Catalan writer.
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Pau Roselló
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- fencer
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Pau Roselló is a Spanish épée fencer, silver team medallist in the 2014 European Fencing Championships.
