- PhD in Biology in 2000, about cell specification in exocrine pancreas cancer (Thesis Director Dr. FX Real)
- Postdoctoral experience since 2000. First studying the development in sponges and from 2004 studying planarians regeneration.
- Lecturer Professor of Genetics since 2013.
- About 40 articles in indexed journals, including ‘Development’ and ‘Plos Biology’.
- Supervisor of 6 PhD Thesis and a number of Master Thesis.
Position: Coordinators of the project
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Teresa Adell
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Emili Saló
- Professor of Genetics since 1985 and Full Professor since 2003.
- Head of the Department of Genetics of the UB during 12 years.
- About 60 articles in indexed journals.
- Supervisor of 20 PhD Thesis
- Pioneer and International reference in the study of regeneration using Planarians as a model.
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Bernat Burriel
- Predoctoral researcher in Systematics, Biogeography and Evolution of Reptiles and Amphibians Lab at IBE with an FPU fellowship. Studying the processes of diversification, distribution and colonization of reptiles in arid environments.
- BSc in Environmental Biology at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and M
S c in Biodiversity at Universitat de Barcelona. MSc thesis at IBE, assessing the diversity, distribution, phylogeny and conservation of terrestrial reptiles in the United Arab Emirates.- Research technician in the Spanish National Project: Arabian reptiles as a model to investigate how biodiversity is generated and maintained in arid regions.
- Project Manager and outreach technician at Observatori de Difusió de la Ciència (ODC-UAB)
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Mattia Menchetti
- Predoctoral researcher at IBE with a “la Caixa” Doctoral Fellowship INPhINIT Retaining, working on the project “The genetic map of European ants”.
- Former Research Assistant at the University of Florence (Italy), working on Mediterranean butterfly phylogeography.
- Former Research Assistant at IBE, working on a National Geographic Society founded project on Citizen Science and butterfly migrations.
- Former active member of the EU COST funded project ParrotNet, an European network of scientists, practitioners and policy-makers dedicated to research on invasive alien parrots.
- Master Degree in Biology at the University of Florence (Italy).
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Patricia Suárez Ara
- Predoctoral researcher in Multicell Genome Lab at IBE with an FPI fellowship. Developing genetic tools to study unicellular relatives of animals and the origin of animal multicellularity
- BSc in Biology and MSc in Biomolecules and Cell Dynamics from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)
- Bachelor’s thesis at Spanish National Center for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC) learning molecular and cellular biology techniques
- Master’s thesis at IMDEA Nanociencia Institute applying a diverse variety of molecular biology and chemical techniques in an interdisciplinary team
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Leonardo Platania
- Predoctoral researcher at IBE with an FPI fellowship. Studying evolution and biodiversity of Western Pacific leaf-beetles (Chrysomelidae, eumolpinae).
- Former Research Assistant at the University of Florence (Italy), working on conservation of the butterfly Zerynthia cassandra Geyer, 1828 population in Elba island.
- Master Degree in Biology at the University of Florence (Italy), with a thesis on the social-wasp Polistes dominula (Christ, 1791) communication.
- Erasmus internship at IBE, working on a project on cryptic species of European Butterflies.
- Bachelor degree in Biology at the University of Florence (Italy) with a thesis on the urban ant diversity in Florence.
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Gemma Isabel Martínez
- Studying the genomic basis of terrestrialization in arthropods at Metazoa Phylogenomics Lab at IBE
- Research stay as an Amgen scholar at the University of Cambridge (Department of Zoology)
- BSc Degree in Genetics and MSc Degree in Bioinformatics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
- MSc thesis at the Institut de Biotecnologia i Biomedicina (IBB) integrating population genomics and transcriptomics to estimating adaptation in humans
- Active member of QuinteScience, youth scientific association involved in the organization of activities such as the Spanish Junior Science Olympiad
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Javier Argüello Luengo
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Currently, postdoctoral researcher in the Quantum Optics Theory group at ICFO, led by Prof. Maciej Lewenstein.
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Graduated in Physics and Mathematics from University Complutense of Madrid (UCM). PhD studies at ICFO and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany).
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MSc at the Perimeter Scholars International program (PSI) from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo, Canada).
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Research interests focus on experimental proposals for strong light-matter interaction, and its use in analogue quantum simulation.
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Collaborates with the outreach department at ICFO and Big Van Ciencia.
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Elena Fusari
- Degree in Biotechnology at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna.
- Erasmus+ at the University of Valencia.
- Master of Science in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna.
- Master Thesis at the IRB Barcelona in Marco Milán’s group.
- Internship at the UCL, London.
- 1st year PhD with a La Caixa fellowship in Marco Milán’s group at the IRB Barcelona.
- Participated in outreach activities at the IRB such as the Open Day to the public 2020.
- Experience with tutoring high school students in Science.
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Panagiotis Giannios
- Degree in Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly – Greece. PhD in Biological Sciences, Department of Biology, University of Athens NKUA – Greece.
- Postdoctoral researcher: At the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering UNIWA and the Medical School of the University of Athens NKUA – Greece. Research focus on tissue optics and bio-photonics applied to the diagnosis of human malignancies. At the IRB Barcelona, in Jordi Casanova’s group, research focus on mechanisms regulating stem cell maintenance, growth and differentiation, using Drosophila as a model system.
- Served for over 5 years as high school tutor of Biology and also appointed as lecturer of Applied Molecular Biology (UNIWA). As a senior project manager and scientific advisor of the science communication NPO SciCo – Gr, has designed, supervised or participated in various projects including broad public science dissemination activities (science festivals etc.) as well as STEM/STEAM educational projects both for school children and other target groups.