Dr. Marina Cortes has had 15 years of experience working in the field of cosmology and is currently involved with three others in the founding of the new scientific field of Biocosmology.  Now a Principal Researcher with the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences at the University of Lisbon, she has previously carried out her research at the University of California, Berkeley, the Perimeter Institute in Canada and the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. She has worked in both large observational collaborations such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and from a purely theoretical perspective.  Her research has influenced our understanding of the universe’s youngest stages, the mystery of its present acceleration and especially the fundamental nature of time itself.

The new scientific field of biocosmology is the first bridge connecting cosmology and biology, scientific areas which were previously through lack of a common mathematical framework and tool.  Biocosmology allows us to see life through the lens of black holes, dark energy and dark matter.  It is the first quantification ever of the value of our planet before the vastness of the cosmos.