- Director of the Department of Genetics, Microbiology, and Statistics
- PhD in Biological Sciences (Medical Genetics) from the University of Barcelona
- Research interests focused in the Genetics Basis of Psychiatric Disorders; Animal Models in Neuropsychiatry; Genetics of aggression; Evolutionary Medicine: Genomics of Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals
Position: Director of the center
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Bru Cormand
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Manel Esteller Badosa
- M.D., Ph.D from the Universitat de Barcelona and researcher at Johns Hopkins, where his work was decisive in establishing promoter hypermethylation of tumor suppressor genes.
- Leader of the CNIO Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory and the Director of the Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program in Barcelona.
- Director of the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, Chairman of Genetics at the University of Barcelona and ICREA Research Professor.
- His research focuses in the establishment of the cancer epigenome. He is a highly cited researcher and has received prestigious recognitions.
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Lluís Alsedà Soler
- Earned PhD in Mathematics in 1984, Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 2004 with previous permanent academic roles.
- Led 5 UAB Discrete Dynamical Systems Group research grants from Spanish Ministry of Science, and managed various projects.
- Supervised 8 PhD and numerous master’s theses; authored 1 book, co-edited 4 books, and published 93 papers.
- Held Vice-Dean and Director positions at UAB, organized international conferences, evaluated research projects, and co-founded the DANCE network.
- Member of Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics Governing Board since 2013, jury for Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer prize, and Associate Editor for DCDS-A and JDEA.
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Ethel Eljarrat Esebag
- PhD in Chemical Sciences from the University of Barcelona (1999) and current director of IDAEA-CSIC.
- Expert advisor on the “plastic pollution” topic in the Congress of Deputies (Madrid), providing guidance to policymakers.
- Her research focuses on the impact of persistent and emerging organic pollutants, specifically plasticizers, flame retardants, organophosphates, insecticides, and pesticides.
- She investigates bioaccumulation and biomagnification in aquatic and terrestrial organisms, as well as human exposure through food and inhalation.
- Authored more than 167 articles in SCI journals (h-index = 50), edited two books, and contributed to 30 book chapters.
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Xavier Luri Carrascoso
- Director of the ICCUB since June 2018 and full professor at the Quantum Physics and Astrophiscs department of UB, where he is co-leading the main Spanish group participating in the Gaia mission.
- He combines the teaching duties for undergraduate and graduate students with the research activity, and has directed 7 PhD theses.
- Coordinator of the SPACIOUS project funded with 1.9 million Euros by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme to address strategic research issues in astrophysics.
- His research activity is focused on ESAs Gaia mission, where he was one of the proposers of the mission and has been a member of the executive committee of the data reduction consortium of Gaia (DPAC) since its creation in 2006.
- Member of the Astronomy and Fundamental Physics Panel of the European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC) since 2022.