D’Elía holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Biological Sciences from the University of the Republic of Uruguay and a PhD in Biology from the University of Michigan, USA, and has an extensive academic background.
He is currently a Full Professor in the Faculty of Sciences at the Institute of Environmental and Evolutionary Sciences at the UACh, where he leads the research group in Systematics. His research focuses on the characterization of biodiversity at the genetic, specific, and phylogenetic levels, as well as exploring the processes involved in differentiation at these levels. He is also responsible for and curator of the Mammal Collection, a valuable source of data for the study of biodiversity.
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Gabriela Urrutia (CL)
Director of Casa Taller la Pausa, Director of Galería Barrios Bajos, Director of Fragua: Arte Contemporáneo Sur, Producer and cultural manager for various projects, Head of Education at MAC Valdivia.
Sabine Eggers (BR/AT)
Since 2017 curator of the international osteological collection an co-curator of permanent exhibitionof the Natural History Museum Vienna. 1998-2016 she was at the Bioanthropology Lab head and professor at the Bioscience Institute of University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Mario Campos Castellano (ES)
born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain in 1982. Majored in traditional and computer animation at Media Art Institut and ECIB, Barcelona, between 2000 and 2003, and digital video postproduction at CEV Madrid in 2010.
Based in Berlin since 2011, his work lives permanently transitioning from the physical to the digital realm, working in the fields of animation, virtual reality, painting, sculpture and experimental filmmaking. His work is heavily influenced by science fiction and posthumanism, exploring the tensions between the technological and the human in an absurdist way.
Jorge Gibbons (CL)
marine biologist, researcher at the Patagonia Institute of the University of Magallanes.
https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Jorge-Gibbons-2162947083
Federico Stäger (CL)
mining engineer, writer and founder of Corporación Laguna de los Cisnes – a non-profit organization preserving, studying and promoting the conditions of the Laguna de los Cisnes ecosystem, fauna, flora and in particular the microbialite formations (stromatolites, thrombolites, etc.) that inhabit and surround it.
Elcira Hernández Walton (CL)
My name is Elcira Hernández Walton, I am a Yaghan artisan.
I was born in 1958 in Kanakus, Hoste Island, in the middle of the southernmost archipelago, next to Cape Horn. I lived there with my family until I was 20 years old, rowing and sailing through these channels. Then I moved to Puerto Williams, to work and start my own family. Here I have been able to continue making handicrafts, especially basketry, which I sell to interested people and tourists, at the same time as developing other activities.
Miguel Cáceres (CL)
Graduate in Visual Arts from the University of Chile and Master in Visual Arts from the same institution.
As Director of the Río Seco Museum of Natural History, he has carried out research on the enhancement of collections and material and immaterial elements representative of the cultural and natural heritage of the Magallanes region.
Francisca Gabler (CL)
Journalist. Graduate in Aesthetics, Feminism and Criticism (2023, PUC), and in Branding, creation of brand value (2019, PUC). She has worked in various media, writing interviews and chronicles in the culture section of La Tercera and Paula magazine, among others; she has also worked in cultural management and coordination of artistic projects as communications manager in various institutions, including the Chilean Corporation of Video and Electronic Arts (CChV), the Biennial of Media Arts of Santiago, the Salvador Allende Solidarity Museum (MSSA), the Centre for Creation and Artistic Residency NAVE and the Contemporary Art Fair of Chile (Ch.ACO). She is the creator and director of the project www.mediales.art.
Leyla Cárdenas (CL)
Leyla Cárdenas is a Chilean scientist, researcher and academic who became the first Dean of the Faculty of Science at the Universidad Austral de Chile (UACH).
Her passion for the ocean and nature was born during her childhood, when curiosity and the search for answers motivated her to explore, travel and log the daily discoveries she made outdoors. She later studied Marine Biology at the same faculty she leads today and obtained a PhD in Biological Sciences with a major in Ecology at the Catholic University.
His work has focused on marine fauna and studies in the region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica.