Jose Luis García

Prof. José Luis García born in Madrid (Spain) in 1955 has a PhD in Chemistry and Bachelors of Chemistry and Pharmacy from the University Complutense of Madrid (UCM). He has worked as a teacher in the UCM, and as a Senior Research Leader in the company Antibióticos SA. He is currently Research Professor at the Center for Biological Research (Madrid) of CSIC (Spanish Research Council) as leader of the Environmental Biotechnology group. His research expertise focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genomics and Biotechnology with more than 300 publications between articles, books and patents. He has worked as Scientific Policy Manager at CICYT, as Deputy Director General of CSIC, and as Advisor at the Ministry of Science and Innovation. He has been the President of the Spanish Society of Biotechnology. Currently, he is advisor of the State Secretary of R&D&I (MINECO), the National Representative of the ERC Program of the European H2020 Program and manager of the National EXPLORA Program (MINECO). He has founded two spin-offs companies of CSIC devoted to the analysis of genomes (Lifesequencing) and genetic diagnosis (Secugen).