Iñaki Ruiz

Iñaki Ruiz is Professor at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) and works at the IBE (CSIC-UPF) in Barcelona (Spain). His educational background includes a Bachelor in Biology from the University of Barcelona (UB) and a PhD in Biology from the same university. He completed a post-doctoral stage at the Dalhousie University (Canada). His current research interests include the study of the molecular mechanisms involved in the origin of multicellular animals, the analysis of genomes of different protists, the study of higher phylogenetic relationships of eukaryotes, and the understanding of the genetic repertoire of the last eukaryotic common ancestor. He is a recipient of the prestigious Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).