Tamara Contador is a professor and researcher at the University of Magallanes in Chile. She is a researcher at the Cape Horn International Center (CHIC), at the Millennium Institute for Biodiversity of Antarctic and Subantarctic Ecosystems (BASE), and at the Millennium Nucleus of Invasive Salmonids (INVASAL). Her research focuses onnadaptations of terrestrial and freshwater invertebrates to climate change, particularly in subantarctic and antarctic ecosystems. She works at Omora Park in Navarino Island, where she seeks to promote the integration of environmental ethics and ecological sciences to contribute to biocultural conservation in freshwater ecosystems.

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Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo is an astrophysicist at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile, where she acts as head of the Office for Science and as faculty chair. Before, she was the head of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array Program management group. She did her PhD at the Spanish National Institute for Aerospace Technology, using the NASA Deep Space Network antennas to perform star-formation studies at centimeter wavelengths. She joined ESO in 2006 as an ESO ALMA fellow with duties at the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope, the Atacama Test Facility in Socorro, New Mexico, and the Operations Support Facilities near San Pedro de Atacama, in Chile. Her research focuses on stars, brown dwarfs, and planet formation.