Pharmacist and PhD in Biological Chemistry from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Andrea Paula-Lima developed her post-doctorate at the University of Chile, where she is currently Associate Professor of the Faculty of Dentistry and Faculty of Medicine. For her professional contribution to the study of Alzheimer's disease (AD), she won the Junior Faculty Award from the AAT-ADPD in 2011 (Barcelona, Spain) and in 2013 (Florence, Italy). She received distinctions from important scientific societies such as the Society for Neurosciences (USA), the National Academy of Sciences of Chile and Brazil, the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, and the Royal Society. Using experimental models ranging from the in vitro to the study in patients, she is interested in elucidating and blocking the intraneuronal signaling pathways activated by beta-amyloid peptide oligomers, emphasizing those pathways dependent on calcium ion as the second messenger. She is also searching for functional alterations detectable by fEEG in patients to contribute to the early diagnosis of AD.

Eduardo Teixeira is a Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Central Florida (UCF), USA. His research interests include free boundary problems and regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations. Before joining UCF, Teixeira was a Professor of Mathematics at Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), in his hometown Fortaleza, Brazil. During nearly ten years that Teixeira was associated with UFC in Brazil he founded and directed one of the major research groups in nonlinear PDEs in Latin America. Teixeira was awarded the 2013 Mathematical Congress of the Americas Prize and the 2017 ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize. He was elected permanent fellow of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2015.