Community Building

Period: 2025–2026 Location: Espartinas and Seville, Spain Participation in the international Pint of Science festival as local organizer and invited speaker, contributing to structured science–society dialogue in informal public settings. Within the 2025 edition, HORMOBIOME participated in the organization of the local Pint of Science programme in Espartinas and delivered the public talk “Microbios y hormonas: aliados invisibles de tu vida” , introducing hormone–microbiome

Period:  Ongoing Participation as a scientific speaker in Café con Ciencia initiatives, organized by the University of Seville as part of its institutional science communication programme. These activities take the form of small-group, informal scientific breakfasts with secondary and high-school students, designed to foster direct, bidirectional dialogue between researchers and young audiences in a non-hierarchical setting. Through conversation-based formats, HORMOBIOME con

Period:  Ongoing Lab members actively participate in science communication and outreach activities organized by ECUSA (Spanish Scientists in the USA) , contributing to newsletters and dissemination initiatives that promote Spanish research internationally.

Period:  2013–present Role:  Co-founder The Spanish Oral Microbiology Network (REMORA) was co-founded during the PI’s doctoral research as an early scientific networking initiative to promote collaboration, training and knowledge exchange in oral microbiology. The network contributed to strengthening national research capacity and fostering interdisciplinary connections among researchers working on oral microbial ecology. This early leadership experience in community building