Public Talks at the Bilbao Aretoa
As a side event to our CosmoVerse@Bilbao Conference, we lead three public talks by Prof. Mariam Bouhmadi-López, and by Joanes Lizarraga Olano from Ikerbasque and EHU, Bilbao, and by Dr. Martina Gerbino from INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare).
Mariam Bouhmadi-López is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist specialising in cosmology and gravitation. She obtained her PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Autonomous University of Madrid and has developed an international research career in Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom and Asia, with longstanding academic ties to several Asian institutions. She is currently an Ikerbasque Research Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Her research focuses on late-time cosmology, particularly dark energy, modified gravity and alternative scenarios for the evolution of the Universe. She also works on quantum cosmology and cosmological singularities, with recent research addressing observational challenges such as the Hubble tension. She has authored more than 130 scientific publications, supervised doctoral researchers and participated in numerous international collaborations. She is actively involved in LGBTIQA+ activism, promoting equality, diversity and inclusion, particularly the visibility and empowerment of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women, and greater representation of LGBTIQA+ people in science and society.
Martina Gerbino is a staff researcher at INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) and associated with Università di Ferrara, in Italy. She got her PhD in Physics at Università di Roma “Sapienza” and held postdoctoral positions at the Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics in Stockholm and Argonne National Laboratory in the USA. Martina is a theoretical physicist working at the interface between theory and observations. She investigates open problems in fundamental physics with the analysis of cosmological data, with a focus on neutrino physics and cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations. She has been a member of several international CMB collaborations, including the successful Planck collaboration, the CMB-S4 collaboration, the currently running Simons Observatory and the planned LiteBIRD satellite collaborations. She is the PI of the ERC Starting project “RELiCS” and was awarded the SIGRAV (Società Italiana di Gravitazione) prize for young outstanding researchers.
Joanes Lizarraga Olano