Team

This is Navarra_BG’s fourth team and, as the year before us, our team has had a difficulty that a lot of others may not have had. Our team is made up of six High School students that had never met each other before.

We first met each other in May in the Planetarium of Pamplona and since then we have been working like a machine all summer long. As you may deduce it wasn’t easy at first to work with people you didn’t know, but now it is as easy as breathing.

Another peculiarity of our team is that we have worked divided in different facilities. A part of the team (Iñigo, Mikel, Yassin, and Emel) has worked on developing our project from the laboratory.

The rest of the team (Judith and Alba) has worked from the Planetarium managing all the communication (Instagram, Twitter) and coordinating everything that had to be done, like Meetups, Collaborations, Educational programs, and having everything ready for the deadlines…

Communication and Design

Laboratory

Team Members



Yassin Somoue Chafik

Laboratory
  • 17-year-old
  • IES Padre Moret Irubide
  • High School Senior year



Judith Carlos Martín

Communication and Design
  • 17-year-old
  • Sagrado Corazon
  • High School Senior year



Alba Rodríguez Iriguibel

Communication and Design
  • 16-year-old
  • Calasanz Escolapios
  • High School Senior year



Iñigo Yániz Ibáñez

Laboratory
  • 17-year-old
  • Calasanz Escolapios
  • High School Senior year



Mikel Jiménez Gil

Laboratory
  • 17-year-old
  • IES Plaza de la Cruz
  • High School Senior year



Emel Samuilova Kalvuneva

Laboratory
  • 18-year-old
  • IES Biurdana
  • High School Senior year


Yassin Somoue Chafik

Laboratory
  • 17-year-old
  • IES Padre Moret Irubide
  • High School Senior year

Judith Carlos Martín

Communication and Design
  • 17-year-old
  • Sagrado Corazon
  • High School Senior year

Alba Rodríguez Iriguibel

Communication and Design
  • 16-year-old
  • Calasanz Escolapios
  • High School Senior year

Iñigo Yániz Ibáñez

Laboratory
  • 17-year-old
  • Calasanz Escolapios
  • High School Senior year

Mikel Jiménez Gil

Laboratory
  • 17-year-old
  • IES Plaza de la Cruz
  • High School Senior year

Emel Samuilova Kalvuneva

Laboratory
  • 18-year-old
  • IES Biurdana
  • High School Senior year

Team Instructors


Sarah Patricia García Hualde


Primary PI

Nahia Eza Arruti


Instructor and member of the 1st NavarraBG team

Francisco Muñoz Pérez


Lead scientist of the applied plant biotechnology group, IdAB (CSIC-Government of Navarra)

Edurne Baroja Fernández


Lead scientist of the applied plant biotechnology group, IdAB (CSIC-Government of Navarra)