MANUEL QUIROS
I am a biologist with a Master’s in Aquaculture and a PhD in Ichthyology with ten years of research experience (postdoc) and in teaching in Higher Education and project management. For more than 20 years, I have created new subjects always linked to Sustainability and regeneration, opening new lines of research. I have published numerous scientific and popular articles that you can access on the web. Always with Nature at the centre of decision-making.
For almost a decade, I have been teaching classes at the Instituto de Empresa University in 4 of the 5 Schools, and also direct the Sustainability Lab to explore sustainable and regenerative scenarios with actual companies in several industries and institutions. I am also a teacher in similar subjects at ESIC University in the Business School, the University of Navarra, and the prestigious UNESCO Chair at the University of the Basque Country.
Every year, I give seminars, workshops and conferences at many other institutions where I am invited. I write scientific and informative publications (see below), pollinating the need and opportunity to advance the culture of regeneration.
I am also co-founder of the pioneer Biomimicry Iberia, of the 3i Biomimesis Network that operates mainly in the Amazon, and I have also founded Planeta Biomimetico Spain with which I travel with postgraduate students to the heart of the Colombian Amazon to work with indigenous communities (PBE).
I have worked with political leaders in the now defunct Climate Consensus Forum, where a prominent group of academics, former ministers, public policymakers, professors and researchers tried to unify action to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss (See plus 1 and 2).
Since 2013, I have been a Contributing Editor of the award-winning ZQJ publication specializing in biomimicry and based in Calgary, Canada.
The Business Institute has published an unconventional profile about me (1-minute read).
If you want to read my entire professional career, access (in Spanish) to my CV.
PUBLICATIONS
In this section, I include some relevant publications of which I am the author.
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Don´t blame bats. Zygote Quarterly Journal. Nº34. Diciembre 2023
Biomimesis: la innovación sostenible y regenerativa inspirada en la naturaleza. Banco Santander_X Innovation Xperts/Esade. Enero 2023
Shaping Sustainable Future.Innovative Teaching Practices for Educating Responsible Leaders. Berlin School of Economics & Law-Research Series #72. Enero 2023
Parece un accidente. Revista esic_Alumni_Marzo 2022.
Life in two worlds. The intertidal zone. Part 2. Zygote Quarterly Journal 30 Vol 2 2021.Diciembre
Life in two worlds. The intertidal zone. Part 1. Zygote Quarterly Journal 29 Vol 1 2021. Mayo
Circularidad de los materiales: emulando a la naturaleza. En RA revista de arquitectura de la Universidad de Navarra. Vol.22, Octubre 2020.
Como funciona la Vida (Prólogo) y Biomimesis: una oportunidad de innovación en la Educación Superior (Artículo). En Libro Biomimesis: emprendimiento e innovación, conciencia y tecnología. Bernal, Díaz & Tamayo Eds.(2020). Bilbao: Euskal Ekintzailetzaren Behatokia – Observatorio Vasco del Emprendimiento, EEB-OVE.
La Economía del Donut para España. En La Ciudad Sostenible, nº40, Julio 2020.
Estrategias de la naturaleza para una nueva Era empresarial pos-globalización. Atalayar. 20 mayo 2020.
Biomimicry: an inspired way to regenerative design in cities based on nature. (Capítulo 5 del Libro Multifunctional Urban Green Infrastructure. 2019)
Lo mas natural. Grupo Vocento. 2019
Entrevista en El País, Marzo, 2019
Biomimesis para la innovación social y la regeneración ambiental (Capítulo Libro Re-descubriendo el mundo natural. La Biomimesis en perspectiva, 2019 )
Biomimesis en el Diseño: Mas allá de la Sostenibilidad en el siglo XXI (Libro ponencias I Congreso Biomimesis, Amazonas Colombia abril, 2018)
Biomimesis y Emprendimiento:La naturaleza lo hace mejor. (2017, La Ciudad Sostenible)
Intervención en Radio Ecogestiona (20 min, 2017)
Álbum Biomimético (2016 CICAT ·Centro Interactivo de Ciencia, Artes y Tecnología·, Universidad de la Concepción de Chile)
Mas allá de la sostenibilidad (2016 CONAMA)
Biomimesis: creatividad y rentabilidad en el diseño inspirado en la Naturaleza. 2014. La Ciudad Sostenible
Biomimesis I (2013 La Ciudad sostenible)
Biomimesis II (2013 La Ciudad sostenible)
Apuntes del natural (AHORA 2015)
Ecoconsciencia I (ECOTICIAS 2010)
Ecoconsciencia II (ABRE EL OJO 2011)
5 Reinos (2011 La Ciudad sostenible)
Somos ignorantes (ETHIC 2012)
Educación Superior para la Sostenibilidad (ABRE EL OJO 2012)
ZQJournal has been translating it into Spanish for some years, thus expanding potential readers. I am proud to be part of the editorial team. We have already had 34 editions (2023), and a lot has been published. You can view an intelligent index from this link to find what you want.
INTERVIEWS
MOST RELEVANT PARTICIPATIONS
Interview on RTVE (10 min.)
Interview on RTVE (10 min.)
Interview on EL País (3min)
Interview on radio (30 min)
Interview for UNED (radio 20 min.)
LATEST CONFERENCES
2023 ·HIC Ibiza Regenerative Tourism.
2022 ·UPV/EHU summer course. Bilbao.
·Madrid Design Festival.
2021 ·International Ibero-American Course. Bolivia
·III International Biomimicry Symposium, Xalapa, Mexico.
·International Course. UPV/EHU. Bilbao.
2020 ·Universidad Amazonica del Pando, Bolivia
·Sustainability Institute, Madrid.
2019 ·COP 25. Madrid City Council.
·World Cities Day. UN-Habitat. Bilbao.
·COP 25. Madrid City Council Madrid.
·World Cities Day. UN-Habitat.
·Campus Excellence. Polytechnic University of
·International Congress of Biomimetic Studies. Amazonian University of Pando, Bolivia.
· Sustainability and territory. VII Sustainable Fashion Congress.
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