Awards and Fellowships

Since 2018 – Elected member of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM)
2018: National award for your scientists in biomedicine (Fundation Banc de Sabadell, Spain) watch video.
2018: National award for best contribution to biomedicine (Foundation Caja Rural de Granada, Spain) watch video.
2018: Elected member of the European Academy of Microbiology EAM
2016: National Young scientist award in Biotechnology (Spanish Society of Biotechnology SEBIOT, Spain)
2015: Royal Society of Chemistry (UK). Emerging Technologies Competition 2015 (finalist)
2014 – Present: Spanish Society of Microbiology
2014: Tenured Scientist CSIC (Spain)
2013: ERC Starting Grant
2010: ZINF Young Investigator Wuerzburg Unversity (Germany).
2008-2010: BARI Fellowship program (BASF Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard).
2007 – Present: American Society of Microbiology (Member).
2006-2008: Seneca Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Spain).
2002: Young Investigator Award (Finalist). Edited by Pigment Cell Research Journal.
2002: International Exchange Investigator Fellowship. University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
2001-2005: Graduate Fellowship Program. University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.

Lectures, conferences and seminars

2021
EMBO New Approaches in Microbiology (online)
FEMS2021 (online)
University of Jerusalem (online)
International University Menendez Pelayo UIMP (Spain)


2020
University of Glasgow (UK)
Institute Pasteur (France)


2019
Institute Pasteur (France)
University of Münster (Germany)
University of Malaga (Spain)
Imperial College (UK)
GRC Conference Cell Adhesion and Signal Transduction (USA)
Menéndez Pelayo University UIMP (Spain)
EMBO Bacterial Networks 2019 (Spain)
Genetic of Industrial Microorganisms GIM (Italy)
Annual Meeting French Microbiology Society (France)
European Summit of Industrial Biotechnology ESIB (Austria)

2018
University of Geneve (Switzerland)
University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
University of Coimbra (Portugal)
Yale University (USA)
Annual Meeting of German society of microbiology VAAM (Germany)
ETZH (Switzerland)
University of Murcia (Spain)

2017
CT-BIO (Spain)
University of Helsinki (Finland)
International Congress of Antibiotic Resistance ICARe (France)
FEMS annual meeting (Spain)
Bacillii and Gram-positive meeting (Germany)
Ramón y Cajal Hospital (Spain)
University of Salamanca (Spain)
University of Málaga (Spain)

2016
NCRS Gives-Sur-Ivette (France)
University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology SEEBM annual meeting (Spain)
College de France (France)
ITQB (Portugal)

2015
Indian National Centre of Biological Sciences (India)
Annual Meeting Nordic Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (Sweden)
American Society of Microbiology. 7th Confenrece on Biofilms (USA)
Gordon Research Conference Cell Adhesion and Signal Transduction (USA)
Gordon Research Conference Staphylococcal diseases (Italy)
Royal Society of Chemistry, Emerging technologies competition (UK)
Sphingolipids in infectium symposium (Germany)
University of Basel (Switzerland)
University of Würzburg (Germany)
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology (Germany).

2014
University of Bochum (Germany)
Universidad de Navarra (Spain)
Spanish society of microbiology. Food microbioogy meeting (Spain).
University of Tübingen (Germany)
Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology CNB-CSIC (Spain)
Biomembranes workshop Oak Ridge National Laboratories, TN (USA)
Frontiers of Sciences. Humboldt Foundation - US National Academy of Sciences. CA (USA).
Univeristy of Murcia (Spain)
University of Jena (Germany)
Gordon Research Conference Signaling transduction in Microorganisms, CA (USA)

2013
University of Sheffield (UK)
University of Würzbrug (Dept. Mathematics) (Germany)
University of Göttingen (Germany)
Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology CNB-CSIC (Spain)
John-Innes Centre. University of Norwich (UK)
University of Marseille (France)

2012
4rd European Symposium on Antimicrobials and antibiotic resistance (Croatia)
German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Marburg (Germany).
Frontiers of Sciences. Humboldt Foundation - US National Academy of Sciences, (Germany).
Annual Meeting of the Dutch Society for Microbiology KNVM (The Netherlands)
DFG Symposium in Cell Heterogeneity (Germany).

2011
University of Geneva (Switzerland).
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology (Germany).
Max Von Pettenkoffer-Institute. LMU University of Munich (Germany).
FEMS-Leopoldina Symposium (Germany).
European BaCell Network (Germany).

2010
XVIII Symposium of Young Investigators (Spain).
Univerität Zürich (Switzerland).
Symposium on DNA transfer and Biofilms (Germany)
EMBO Bacterial Networks (Spain)
University of East Anglia. John Innes Center (UK).
University of Oxford. Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (UK) (I)
University of Oxford. Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (UK) (II)
Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research NIBR (USA).
University of Würzburg. I Symposium of infectious diseases (Germany).
University of Salamanca (Spain)
Microbial Science Initiative. Harvard University (USA).

2009 and before
Broad Institute (2009) (USA).
XVI Symposium of Young Investigators (2008) (Spain).
Broad Institute (2008) (USA)
Boston Bacterial Meeting BBM08 (2008) (USA)
Broad Institute (2008) (USA).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007) (USA).
Harvard Medical School. (2007) (USA).

Organiser/Chair of Scientific Conferences, Meetings and Symposia

2019
Chair: Genetic of Industrial Microorganisms GIM (Italy)

2018
Organizer: 1st Symposium Lipid Membrane Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Biology

2017
Elected member of the BACELL Steering committee

2016
Organizer: II International Meeting Qualevitae. Quiron Hospital (Spain)

2015
Chair. Gordon Research Conference Cell Adhesion and Signal Transduction (USA)

2014
Organizer. Frontiers of Sciences. Humboldt Foundation - US National Academy of Sciences.
(with Wyndham lathem, Northwestern University, USA)

2014
Organizer. Third Mol Micro Meeting, Würzburg, Germany
(with Cynthia Sharma and Jörg Vogel)

2013
Chair. 4rd European Symposium on Antimicrobials and antibiotic resistance (Croatia)

2012
Organizer. Second Mol Micro Meeting, Würzburg, Germany
(with Alexander Böhm, Cynthia Sharma and Jörg Vogel)

2011
Organizer. Mol Micro Meeting, Würzburg
(with Alexander Böhm, Kai Papenfort and Jörg Vogel)

Teaching

2015 – currently
Lectureship in Molecular Microbiology at the Autonomous University of Madrid
Master degree in Molecular Biosciences


2010 – 2015
Lecturership. Pathogeneicity in microorganisms
Lecturer. Pathogenicity in microorganisms
Number of hours: ~50
Biozentrum and Institute for Hygiene.
University of Würzburg, Germany.

2003 – 2006
Lecturer of Biochemistry in School of Medicine
Number of hours: ~ 64
University of Murcia, Spain

2003 – 2006
Laboratory assistant. Microbial Biotechnology and Biochemistry.
Number of hours: ~ 150
University of Murcia, Spain

1998 – 2000
Laboratory Internship.
Dept. Genetics and Microbiology and Dept. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain