The meeting is a program of the prestigious series of international meetings of outstanding scientists prepared by the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1989 and since then it has been adopted by the Royal Society and a number of other prestigious national science academies and organizations worldwide, including the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Japan Society for the Promotion Science.
This multidisciplinary meeting aims to bring together future leaders in science to discuss the latest developments in their fields and learn about cutting edge research on other disciplines. This year took an unprecedented and as an initiative of the Chilean Academy of Sciences, eight Chileans, of which three are “beauchefianos”: DAS academic, Patricio Rojo, María Prof. Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Elena Lienqueo and Salome Martinez from the Engineering Department of Mathematics, who joined 33 scientists from the United Kingdom and 35 from Brazil.
For Prof. Lienqueo was a great experience “we could see the progress that has been developed in Brazil, a leader in the field of bioethanol from sugar cane. We were also able to interact with members of the Laboratório Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia do Bioetanol (CTBE), searching similarities and possible collaborations in the area of enzyme improvement, “he said.
Prof. Salome Martinez considered the participation of the Chilean group as an enriching experience. “Not only do we attend lectures and talk to scientists of our areas, but we could meet and discuss with experts from other disciplines of great relevance in science today,” Martinez said.
One of the proponents of Chile's participation in the meeting was the current Director of the Chilean Academy of Sciences and academic of the FCFM, Prof. Juan Asenjo, who considered as a milestone the participation of Chile at the conference: “This experience confirms the high level of science is developing in our country and confirm that our researchers achieve the same accomplishments as those of developed countries, “he said.
