Mariano Martín Villuendas is a predoctoral fellow (Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Castilla y León-Fondo Social Europeo) at the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Aesthetics (University of Salamanca) and researcher at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies (ECyT). Mariano has been a visiting researcher at the University of Pittsburgh (USA) and at the UNED (Spain). His research interests are related to the General Philosophy of Science, Pragmatism and Cancer Research. Juan Gefaell is a predoctoral fellow at the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology (University of Vigo). He has also been a visiting researcher at Lund University (Sweden). Juan conducts research in evolutionary ecology and has published papers on various topics related to the evolution of color polymorphism and local adaptations in the marine gastropod Littorina saxatilis. In addition to that, he also works on science education and the philosophy of science. Ana Cuevas Badallo is associated professor at the Philosophy department, and Researcher at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies (Ecyt) at the University of Salamanca (Spain).

She received her PhD in Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country. Nowadays she is the head of the Philosophy, Logic, and Aesthetic Department of the University of Salamanca. She published on technological sciences epistemology, technological bio-artefacts and public participation in science and technology. She coordinated several research projects on Public Understanding of Science focusing on biotechnology and public participation in scientific and technological controversies. She has been visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki (Finland), the University of Delaware (USA), the University of Delft (The Netherlands) and the University of Valparaiso (Chile). Author of several articles on epistemology, ontology and axiology of technology.