Juan Luis Crespo-Mariño: Received the B.Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in Physics from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in 1996 and 1999 and the Ph.D. degree in Systems and Automation Engineering from the University of A Coruña (Spain) in 2007. ORCID number 0000-0002-2716-4107. IEEE Senior Member from 2017. He is currently a Professor and Researcher in Tecnológico de Costa Rica (Mechatronics Engineering Academic Area), where he is the head of LIANA Lab (Artificial Intelligence for Natural Sciences Lab). He has participated as Head Researcher or collaborator in more than 60 research projects financed in European, Spanish and Latin American callings. His current research interests include biomedical active devices research and development, higher order software paradigms for genomic data processing, signal and image processing, and autonomous robotics, among others. He was IEEE EMBS Costa Rica chair in 2017 and now he is vicechair.
Andrés Segura-Castillo coordinates the Technological Research and Innovation Laboratory at the Universidad Estatal a Distancia in Costa Rica. He graduated in Computer Science and Informatics from the Universidad de Costa Rica and holds an M.Sc. degree in Technology Management from The Open University in the United Kingdom. His interests include systems thinking, systemic change, open innovation, technology management and social and biological network analysis. He has collaborated in several research and innovation projects in several areas including: science and technology studies, social simulation and systems biology. Andrés also holds national representative positions, he has contributed to the Costa Rican Commission of Science Indicators since 2009 and has served as a technical representative of the public universities in the national committee of Science and Technology. He has been an IEEE member since 2016 and is the current IEEE EMBS Costa Rica chair.
Secretaria/Tesorera EMBS.
Adriana Alfaro Chinchilla received the B.Sc. degree in Biology with emphasis in Biotechnology from the National University of Costa Rica, worked in Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the project “Role of Asn 323 in the reaction catalyzed by Aspergillus fumigatus SidA”. Currently, concludes the M.Sc degree in Microbiology from the University of Costa Rica and work in the researchs projects: “Antitumor activity of snake venoms on equine sarcoid fibroblasts” and “Proteomic and toxicological characterization of the venom of Crotalus vegrandis (Viperidae) and evaluation of its use as an immunogen on the response by antibodies against coimmunogens and poisons of other American rattlesnakes” in the Clodomiro Picado Institute of theUniversity of Costa Rica. She is Member IEEE EMBS Costa Rica since 2014 and was the chair in 2014-2015.