Tomas Marques

Tomas Marques is the director of the IBE and Principal Investigator of the Comparative Genomics group. He started his own laboratory in 2011 after a Marie Curie fellowship (2008) in Seattle, University of Washington. In 2011 he obtained the competitive ERC Starting Grant 2010 and in 2011, he was selected as an ICREA research investigator at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). In 2013, he was also selected for the EMBO young Investigator award and associate editor for BMC Genomics. In 2014, he was also appointed head of the comparative genomics group at CRG-CNAG. He is part of the executive committee of the G10K and the Dog G10K, two international efforts to sequence 10,000 vertebrates to study genome evolution and 10,000 dog genomes. He has trained 5 PhD students and 3 postdocs, all of them working actively in the academia in UK and USA.