Director of the Río Cruces Wetland Center
Universidad Austral de Chile

Veterinarian and Ph.D., currently the Director of the Río Cruces Wetland Center and MacroSur coordinator for the Water Resources Researchers Network (Red H2O). His research line focuses on wildlife conservation, integrating genomic tools and traditional methodologies to assess the impact of environmental stressors on the biodiversity of wetland ecosystems.

Director of the Fish Physiology Laboratory
Universidad Austral de Chile

Marine Biologist and Ph.D., he is a Full Professor and Director of the Fish Physiology Laboratory at the Universidad Austral de Chile, where he also directs the Graduate School of Sciences. As a lab collaborator, his research line contributes to the study of animal ecophysiology, using advanced molecular tools to understand how environmental stressors and pollutants affect the health and responses of wild populations.

Researcher at CONICET
Argentina

Biologist and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her research line focuses on conservation projects in South American coastal ecosystems, primarily studying the ecology of migratory waterbirds, with a special emphasis on their trophic aspects and habitat use patterns across different spatial and temporal scales.

Assistant Professor and Researcher
University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Biologist and Ph.D., she is an academic and researcher at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research line focuses on environmental and evolutionary physiology, investigating the physiological, metabolic, and respiratory mechanisms that allow birds to sustain flight in extreme environmental conditions, such as high altitudes, hypoxia, and drastic temperature changes.

Professor and Co-Director of AFAR
Western University, Canada

Biologist and Ph.D., he is a Professor and Co-Director of the Advanced Facility for Avian Research (AFAR) at Western University. His research line is at the forefront of avian flight physiology and movement ecology, using wind tunnels and stable isotopes to study the metabolism, nutrition, and energetic strategies that allow birds to undertake long-distance migrations.

Principal Investigator
University of Extremadura, Spain

Biologist and Ph.D., he serves as a researcher and academic at the University of Extremadura. His research line contributes to the study of the physiological ecology of migratory birds, using experimental and field approaches to understand osmoregulation, thermoregulation, and how environmental stressors affect the life history strategies of shorebirds.

Full Professor and Researcher
University of Extremadura, Spain

Biologist and Ph.D., he is a Full Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology, and Zoology at the University of Extremadura. His research line focuses on the ecophysiology and conservation of waterbirds and shorebirds, assessing their energetic adaptations, habitat use patterns, and the impacts of global change on wetland ecosystems along their migratory routes.

Professor and Researcher
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Biologist and Ph.D., he is a researcher and lab principal investigator at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research line addresses population ecology and migratory connectivity, using tracking technology to assess how global climate change alters resource availability and generates phenological mismatches in highly migratory birds at a hemispheric scale.

Professor of Global Flyway Ecology
BirdEyes, University of Groningen, Netherlands

Biologist and Ph.D., he is the leader of the BirdEyes center at the University of Groningen and a researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). His research line pioneers flyway ecology, integrating organismal biology, benthic food webs, and spatial tracking technology to understand how shorebirds adapt to rapidly transforming global environments.