I am Full Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). After my PhD in Biology from the Univ de Barcelona (1991), I did a postdoctoral stay at the DFCI-Harvard Medical School (Boston). In 1995, I moved to Paris as a postdoc at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), and I got a permanent position at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (now, Sorbonne University). From that time, I have been fascinated by developmental neurobiology, and how you go from DNA and genes to the generation of form. This has been the main focus of my latest scientific career. In 2002, I had the opportunity of joining the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences (now, Medicine and Life Sciences). I have served in institutional positions, first as Academic Secretary and as Vice-Chair of the Department (2007âEUR2015)

Research interests

as Delegate of the Rector for Research (2015âEUR”2017) and as Vice-Rector of Professorate and Vice-Rector of Talent Recruitment and Retaining Policy (2017âEUR”2021).

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