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BioSergio Missana is a professor of Literature and Film at Stanford's Overseas Studies Program in Santiago, Chile. He is the author of 17 books, including novels, essays, travel chronicles and children's books. His most recent works are the novels The Transentients (2021, translated into English by Jessica Powell) and Entremuros (Through the Walls, 2019), and Última salida (Last Exit, 2021), an essay on the humanities and the climate crisis. Missana studied Communications and Journalism at the University of Chile and earned an MA and PhD in Spanish at Stanford University. He was an editor of the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which investigated human rights violations committed by Chile's civil-military dictatorship between 1973 and 1990. He currently serves as secretary-general of the Climate Parliament, an international multi-partisan network of legislators working to combat climate change and protect the living planet. He divides his time between Madrid and Santiago.

Gabriel Mistelbauer

Senior Research Engineer, Rad/Cardiovascular Imaging

BioGabriel Mistelbauer is a senior research engineer in the Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA, since 2022. Previously, he was a research associate at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany (2016-2022) and a postdoctoral researcher at TU Wien, Austria (2013-2016). He received a PhD in Computer Science, in the field of Medical Visualization, in 2013 at TU Wien, Austria, and the habilitation (venia legendi) in Computer Visualization (Computervisualistik) in 2024 at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany. His research focuses on visual computing and image processing in medicine, in particular on the analysis of vascular structures.