Portrait of Oscar Contreras-Villarroel

Fundación Ciencia Joven, Giant Magellan Telescope

Oscar Contreras-Villarroel

  • 2023
  • Speaker
  • Circle
  • 2021
  • Speaker
  • Engage
  • 2020
  • Speaker
  • Engage

Oscar Contreras-Villarroel is the Hub Manager of the Falling Walls Engage Hub Argentina. He is the president of the Fundación Ciencia Joven and the Vice President and Legal Representative in Chile at the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). Oscar's expertise is in working with companies at a regional level to develop private partnerships. He was responsible for implementing one of the first STEM community engagement programme at the first Google data centre in Latin America. Oscar has been a Falling Walls Engage Winner in 2019 and 2021.

Oscar Contreras-Villarroel was a Falling Walls Winner in the Science Engagement category in 2020 and 2021.