Biographical sketch
Born in Barcelona, Spain, February 19, 1941
PhD in Genetics, September 1971
Postdoc in University of California, Davis, USA 1971-73, as a postdoctoral NIH fellow
Full Professor of Genetics (with tenure) in Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain (1973-1980)
Full Professor of Genetics (with tenure) in Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain (since 1980-2011)
Emeritus Professor of Genetics of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain (since 2011 until present)
Chairman of the Departament de Genètica I Microbiologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1988-90)
Director of 18 PhD thesis.
Visiting Professor in the following universities: University of Arizona, Tucson (1974); University of Hawaii, Honolulu (1974); University of Waco, Texas (1977), Queens College, New York (1980), Syracuse University, New York (1981, 1982); University of Georgia, Athens (1985), University of California, Irvine (1991), University of Crete (Greece) (1997), University of Melbourne (Australia) (2006), Institute of Tropical Biology (Malaysia) (2006), University de la Sorbonne, Orsay (France) (2006)
Invited professor to teach graduate courses in Perú, Argentina, Colombia and Russia.
Principal Investigator of 15 Research Projects ofCICYT, DGICYT y DGES (Ministerio de Educación, España )
Associated Researcher in a Human Capital and Mobility project of the European Union.
Principal Investigator of the “Research Group in Evolutionary Biology” (GBE) (SGR 00050), considered as First Rank Group by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Principal Investigator of four research projects funded by Generalitat de Catalunya to GBE.
Principal Investigator of Research Cooperative Programs with Universidad Simón Bolivar (Venezuela), Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), Universidad de San Marcos (Perú), Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito (Ecuador).
Honorary Professor of Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia)
Invited speaker more than 30 times in 10 different countries.
Author of 125 publicaciones, comprising articles in journals and chapters of books with international peer revision.
Editor of the book: Evolutionary Biology of Transient Unstable Populations, published by Springer-Verlag (1989)
Co-author of the books: Introducción a la genética de poblaciones. Antonio Fontdevila and Andrés Moya. Síntesis, Madrid (1999); Evolución: Origen, adaptación y divergencia de las especies. Antonio Fontdevila and Andrés Moya. Síntesis, Madrid (2003).
Author of the book: The Dynamic Genome: A Darwinian Approach. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 2011
Other qualifications:
Member of the Steering Commitee of the Population Biology projectofthe European Science Foundation.
Associate editor of the journal Genetica (Holland)
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Genetics, Selection, Evolution (France) (1985-91)
Vicepresident of the Sociedad Española de Genética (1985-89)
Nominated in 1986 for Coucil Member of the Society for the Study of Evolution (USA)
Member of the selection committee for a professor position inUniversidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina). 1985
Council Member of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (1993-1997)
Member elected of a Master examination committee in the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV) México 1995
Officer of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology as conference
organiser (l998-l999)
Member elected by Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas of an Evaluation Committee of the Biolocal Research Station of Doñana, Sevilla, Spain. 1995
Elected jury “rapporteur” in two examination committees of PhD thesis in the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France. 1994 and 1998.
Member elected of a PhD examination committee in the Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia) 1998
Member elected by CNRS (France) of an Evaluation Committee of the CNRS UPR 9034, Populations, génétique et évolution laboratoire, Gif sur Yvette (France) 2001
Member elected by Fundación Española de Ciencia y Tecnología of an evaluation committee of the National Research Programs in Spain. 2002
Member of the Commission of COSCE nominated by Sociedad Española de Biologia Evolutiva, elected by COSCE (Confederación de Sociedades Científicas de España) (2015)
Organiser of the following congresses and symposia
Primer Seminario de Genética de Poblaciones y Evolución. Pazo de Mariñán. La Coruña. Spain.1979
Octavo Seminario de Genética de Poblaciones y Evolución. Sant Cugat. Barcelona. Spain 1991
Sixth European Conference in Population Biology and Evolution. Banyoles, Girona. Spain 1990
Seminari de Biologia Evolutiva. Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain 1993
Seventh Congress of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology. Bellaterra, Barcelona. Spain 1999
