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Maria Rosa Cervera Sardá is Ph D. architect, Professor and former Dean of the School of Architecture of the University of Alcalá and Current director of the Master's Degree in Advanced Architecture and City Projects. She is the author of writings and books on architecture, among which we highlight: "Bionics, Biomimetics and Architecture" (2019); "Space and Time in Architectural Composition" (2018); Recycling Mumbai. Re-imagining the slum" (2012). "Madrid, Recycled City" (2011), "Iron in 19th century Madrid architecture" (2006). A regular speaker in professional and academic circles, she has given lectures in Spain, China, India, USA, Bolivia, Peru, El Salvador, Venezuela, Romania, Italy, etc. As an architect, Rosa Cervera has received several awards -the "Antonio Maura" award, the COAM award, the "Transfer of Knowledge" award- and has won several international architecture competitions. Rosa Cervera is a pioneer in the research of Bionics, Biomimetics and the application of biological structures to innovative and efficient architecture and urban design. A direct result of these studies is the Self-Sustainable Vertical Garden City, Bionic Tower.

Elena-Codina Dusoiu is a Ph.D. architect and professor within the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism from Bucharest, Romania. Her main fields of research are: rehabilitation and conversion of buildings (published books: The Dynamics of the Sacred Space. The Influence of Function, 3 Breweries and their Destiny, Ion Mincu Publishing House, 2009), vernacular architecture and ecology (organizer of 12 editions of Spanish-Romanian workshops on vernacular architecture 2006-2018), design and bionics (research studies realized within the IMUAU and the Alcalá University, 2021-22). She received various research grants and published about 100 scientific articles and 8 authored and co-authored books in the mentioned research fields. Outstanding activity as Visiting Professor in Spain, Italy, Greece, Czech