Benazir Flores Valdivia is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid. She obtained a Degree in Philosophy at the University of Valencia (2013) and later concluded her Master's studies in Thought Creation (Escuela Contemporánea de Humanidades, 2018), Contemporary Culture (Complutense University and Ortega y Gasset Institute, 2018) and Education (Complutense University, 2020). Currently, she is a PhD student at the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy (UCM) under the supervision of Laura Nuño de la Rosa and Vanessa Triviño. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on “Process Metaphysics in biology: a discussion of biological identity”. Her PhD research is being funded by the CONACYT program developed by the Mexican government.

Research interests: Benazir research interests concern metaphysical assumptions and implications of scientific practices. Specifically, she investigates the virtues and limitations of process metaphysics in accounting for the identity and persistence of organisms. 

Contact: benazirf[at]ucm.es

Juan Jacobo Ibarra graduated in Philosophy and Letters at the University of Nariño (Colombia) in 2016. In 2019, he obtained his Master's Degree in Literature at the University of Barcelona (Spain). Since 2020, he is a doctorate student at the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid. His thesis, supervised by Laura Nuño de la Rosa, deals with The Realism-anti-realism controversy: new naturalistic and materialistic approaches. 

Research interests: scientific realism, new materialisms, evolutionary epistemology.

Turad Miguel Turad Lorenzo is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Physics from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2021, followed by the completion of a Master's degree in Epistemology of Natural and Social Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid. Currently, he is pursuing his doctoral studies in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy (UCM), where he holds a position under the supervision of Laura Nuño de la Rosa and María Cerezo. His research is supported by an FPI scholarship, providing essential financial backing for his academic pursuits. His doctoral dissertation focuses on exploring potential avenues to redirect the current ontological debate between reductionist and emergentist positions in the philosophy of science.

Research Interests: Emergence, philosophy of physics, metaphysics, epistemology and reductionism.

Contact: turadtur[at]ucm.es

Carolina Cuadrado Bastos holds a dual degree in Political Science and Philosophy from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In 2022, she completed the Master's program in Epistemology of Natural and Social Sciences at the same institution. Currently, she is pursuing a Ph.D. with a FPU fellowship, under the supervision of Laura Nuño de la Rosa. Her main research interests concern the epistemology of climate science, focusing on the interactions between epistemology, ethic, and politics that arise in this domain.

Research Interests: epistemology, climate models, values in science.

Contact: carocuad[at]gmail.com

Leyre Celada Marcén earned her degree in Philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid, where she also completed a Master's program in Epistemology of Natural and Social Sciences in 2024. Currently, she is pursuing her doctoral studies under the supervision of Laura Nuño de la Rosa. Her dissertation focuses on the problem of purposes in biology, as well as biological agency and normativity.

Research Interests: Epistemology of natural sciences, teleology, biological normativity, agency.

Contact: leyrecel[at]ucm.es

Irene Adán Sánchez-Infantes holds a Philosophy and Political Science degree from the Complutense University of Madrid (2023). She completed her Master's Degree in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2024). Recently, she has started her PhD in Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid under the supervision of Vanessa Triviño.

Research interests: they include the epistemological problems presented by new technologies, on which she aspires to write a doctoral thesis grounded in feminist bioethics and critical epistemologies.

Contact: ireadan [at] ucm.es

Jose Antonio Fernández Vázquez holds a Philosophy and Political Science degree from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, In 2024, he completed his Master´s degree in Epistemology of Natural and Social Sciences at the same institution. He has started his PhD in Philosophy under the supervision of Vanessa Triviño and María Cerezo. His dissertation focuses on metaphysics and relationships between ontological levels of reality.

Research Interests: the metaphysics of levels and organization: epistemological and ontological problems from level structures; emergence; relationship between entities and concepts from different levels; and new ways to depict reality.

Contact: josfer12 [at] ucm.es

Mayo Pinto Candenas holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Sevilla. In 2024, he completed a Master's in Science and Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he is currently pursuing another Master's in Epistemology of Natural and Social Sciences. He is also a doctoral candidate under the supervision of Laura Nuño de la Rosa. His dissertation explores the application of enactivist and organizational accounts of normativity to the analysis of phenomena currently classified as mental disorders.

Research Interests: Philosophy of psychiatry, biological normativity, enactivism, teleology.

Contact: mayo.candenas.pinto [at] gmail.com