Tamara began her career as a scientist at a very early age. During her first years at university, she began to collaborate with Dra. Enriqueta Diaz de Vivar looking for important marrow in starfish. Her undergraduate thesis focused on one of those starfish and in 2004 she graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Biological Sciences from the National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco. During her work with her doctorate she worked in the Neuronal Plasticity Laboratory at the Leloir Institute Foundation and at the same time began the study of sea urchins in conjunction with Dr. Diaz de Vivar. She collaborated in the founding of the Latin American Echinoderm Network and organized, together with Dr. Martin Brogger and Dr. Diaz de Vivar, the first Latin American Congress on echinoderms in 2011.

Starting with her appointment as a CONICET Researcher in 2013, Tamara accentuated her interest in aquaculture technology and initiated new research projects in technological development. The study of secondary metabolites produced by marine organisms has accompanied her throughout her entire career and the Covid-19 pandemic clearly served to highlight the end purpose of her research: the search for health benefits from aquaculture. Tamara is an independent researcher at CONICET and Researcher professor at UNPSJB.

She is a member of FIRMA (Ibero-American Forum of Mariculture and Aquaculture), is a Hatch Blue woman, a member of Refacua CONICET, ASTRAL, WISE, amongst other organizations and bodies. Her research also involves animal welfare, specifically regarding marine invertebrates as applied to both research activities and production activities. Tamara has more than 30 scientific publications, and has made more than 50 presentations at congresses, conferences, and workshops both in Argentina and abroad.

She is an undisputed global leader in her areas of study both in sea urchin aquaculture in Argentina and Latin American but also as regards ethics in experimentation with invertebrates. In the latter field, Tamara co-leads innovation and research together with Dr. Augusto Crespi-Abril.

Tamara has won national and international awards and grants and has initiated and participated in scientific collaboration agreements with Harvard University, the Leuven Institute of Belgium and the PIBOC Institute of Russia. Tamara is co-founder of proMarine Antioxidants where she puts into practice her knowledge from more than two decades of research in the service of improving human health.

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Lucia was born in Buenos Aires but grew up in southern Argentina in Trelew, Chubut, where she developed a very close bond with Nature and the Patagonian environment. Her interest in how substances are transformed led her to choose to study to become a Chemical and Food Engineer at the National University of Buenos Aires.

Her passion for optimization and precision in processes led to a specialization in Process Engineering. She has worked for a variety of companies within the energy sector, becoming the first female HSE (Health, Safety and Environment) Superintendent at Total Energies Argentina, in Tierra del Fuego field, which has both onshore and offshore operations.

During recent years, she has been a part of the TWICE (Total Women’s Initiative for Communication and Exchange) committee of Total Energies Argentina. Based on her experience in the food industry, holistic health and bio-hacking Lucia get the Neurolinguistic Programming master certification in the US, being trained by the co-creator of the NLP method, Richard Bandler.

In recent years, Lucia has become interested in triple-impact ventures and business operations and in 2021 she was invited to co-lead and enhance proMarine’s business and growth opportunities. In this context, she combines her expertise in technology and processes with her drive to enhance health in humans through innovation in food industry and other products. Lucia recently completed the IAE Business School’s Small and Medium Business Management (DPME) program and is a member of their alumni network.

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