Francesc Gòdia

Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Overall Manager of the MELiSSA Pilot Plant (European Space Agency). Research activity in Animal Cell Technology and Life Support in Space. Teaching activity in Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering. Author of more than 85 papers, 5 patents, and advisor of 28 PhD thesis. Coordinator of the Courses on Animal Cell Technology and Cell culture-based Viral Vaccines of ESACT (European Society of Animal Cell technology). Committee Member of several Congresses. Chair of the European Congress of Biotechnology in 2009 and ESACT Meeting in 2013 and 2015. Member of the Executive Board of the European Federation of Biotechnology. President of Fundació Parc Taulí (Hospital de Sabadell, Barcelona). Member of the BOD of the Blood and Tissue Bank of Barcelona. Member of the Bureau of the Working Party Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Converging Technologies of the OECD.