Pablo Bolaños-Villegas is an associate faculty the University of Costa Rica, in Costa Rica, Central America. He obtained his BSc in plant science at the University of Costa Rica, and his MSc at the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology in Pingtung, Taiwan. His doctoral work was guided by Guang-Yuh Jauh at the Taiwan International Graduate Program of the Academia Sinica, in Taipei. Currently he is trying to determine how meiotic chromosomes are organized in Sobralia orchids, how ploidy impacts flower development in orchids and how habitat loss impacts population viability in orchids. He has published in the Plant Physiology and Frontiers in Plant Science . He currently serves as an editor at The Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and is a member of the American Society of Plant Biologists. He is interested in orchid reproduction and in the teaching of science to undergraduates.

Cabrerizo received his BSc in Chemistry (2002) and his PhD in Chemical Science (2005) from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centro de Investigación en Hidratos de Carbono (CONICET–UBA, 2005–2006). He carried out research in Germany, Japan and Denmark. Since 2006, he has been a Research Member of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), leading, from 2010 to date, the Photochemistry and Molecular Photobiology Lab. He served as an Assistant Professor at UNLP and at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSMA) (2011–2013). In 2013, he was appointed Associate Professor at UNSMA. His research focuses on the molecular aspects of mechanisms of photosensitized processes triggered by UVA and visible light. Cabrerizo was awarded the G. Cilento Award of the Inter-American Photochemical Society (2006), the Ranwel Caputto Award of the National Academy of Sciences of Argentina (2009), and the Eduardo G. Gros scholarship of the National Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, Argentina (2015).