Research summit in Mexico

Over a dozen Max Planck Directors will attend the first “Frontiers in Science” symposium with the Mexican Research Council CONACYT

A Max Planck Symposium with high-ranking participants will take place from 27 February to 1 March in Mexico City. They will include leading scientists from Mexico as well as Directors and Group Leaders from 14 Max Planck Institutes. In addition to exchange on the latest research results with Mexican partners, the event also aims to identify potential research topics for cooperation.

The scientific symposium will be held at the auditorium of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. The aim of the three-day event is to intensify scientific exchange and personal contact between leading scientists and to enable closer and more sustainable cooperation on research topics of mutual interest. Almost 40 scientists from Mexico and Germany will give presentations including social scientists, such as Axel Börsch-Supan (Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich) and Ute Frevert (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin), neuroscientists, like Jason Kerr (Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (caesar), Bonn), and materials researchers, such as Beatriz Roldán (Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG). Other research fields that will be covered at the first “Frontiers in Science” symposium in Mexico include astrophysics, biomedicine, archeogenetics and chemical ecology.

The symposium has been organized by the Max Planck Society’s liaison office for Latin America in collaboration with the Mexican Research Council CONACYT.