Who are we?

EL-BONGÓ is made up of 12 Latin American universities: eight universities from the Andean Zone (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela) and four universities located in three Central American countries (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador). In addition, the project has the participation of four European universities: three located in France and one university in Spain.

Gabriela Navarro

Project Coordinator. Particle physicist, Argentina. Professor at the Universidad Antonio Nariño and member of the ATLAS Collaboration of the LHC since 2007. PhD at the University of Buenos Aires. Areas of interest: particle physics, beyond the standard model, Higgs physics.

Daniela González

Project Manager. Professional with consolidated experience in international cooperation and relations, administrative management of projects and translation.

Alejandra Cruz Tovar

Head of the Network of International Relations Offices in the Project. Coordinator of International Cooperation at Antonio Nariño University (Colombia).

Luis A. Núñez

Project Coordinator. Doctor of Physics. Full Professor at the Industrial University of Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia. Full Professor (retired) at the University of Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela.

José Ocaríz

Deputy Project Coordinator. Particle physicist, French-Venezuelan. Senior lecturer at Paris Cité University and researcher at IN2P3. He has actively participated in scientific cooperation programmes between France and Latin America.

Camilo Ruiz Méndez

In charge of community building in the Project. Physicist, lecturer at the University of Salamanca. Expert in educational methods.

Justo Hernán Ospino Zúñiga

Colombian physicist, professor at the University of Salamanca. Areas of interest: gravitation and relativistic cosmology.

Ysabel Cristina Briceño Romero

In charge of communication and scientific dissemination. Social Communicator. PhD in Human Sciences. Lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (Social Communication Programme). Areas of interest: discourse, science and society; democracy and media; digital environments; migration and transnational families.

José Antonio López

In charge of training strategies in the Project. Research professor in the postgraduate courses of Physics and Medical Physics at the Central University of Venezuela. Areas of interest: high energy physics, mathematical physics, radiobiology and nuclear physics in medicine, curriculum design and e-learning.

Jorge Stephany

Professor of Physics at the Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB) in Caracas, Venezuela, since 1998. His research interests focus on quantum field theory, relativistic physics and quantum mechanics of open systems.

Dennis Cazar

Teaches Physics and Electromagnetic Theory in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Coordinator of the hardware development group at the LAGO Collaboration, and member of the BRIL subsystem within the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider LHC at CERN.

Mario Audelo Guevara

Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from the Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo (Riobamba, Ecuador). Research on astroparticle detection techniques and data acquisition system design.

Teófilo Vargas Auccalla

Professor at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Director of the astronomy group ‘Seminario Permanente de Astronomía y Ciencias Espaciales’ – SPACE. Areas of interest: Gravitation and cosmology, Astrobiology, high energy physics.

José Rodrigo Sacahui Reyes

Dr. in astrophysics, currently a tenured professor at the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Studies in high-energy astrophysics.

Lucio Villanueva

Professor at the School of Physics, National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH). Academic Coordinator of the Physics Degree Programme.

Mario Ruiz Vargas

Director of Research at Francisco Gavidia University (UFG), El Salvador. His areas of research include cloud infrastructure, online education, and artificial intelligence applied to academic management.