Professional Title: Vice-President of the Commission for Large Research Infrastructures of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), EOSC Association representative
Bio: He is a researcher at the Institute of Optics and vice-president of the Commission for Large Research Infrastructures of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He is part of the advisory council of the Biodiversity Foundation.
From 2011 to 2016 he worked as deputy Director General and Coordinator Programs and Strategies of Fundación General CSIC, focusing his activity on identifying and promoting new environments for public-private collaboration in research in Spain.
Since May 2008 and for seven years, her was responsible for knowledge transfer in CSIC as deputy Vice-president and Director of the Technology Transfer Office. From march 2011 to march 2016, he was elected President of LES (Licensing Executives Society) SPain & Portugal, the Iberian chapter of a non-profit international organisation devoted to advancing the business of intellectual property globally.
He formed part of the expert group set up by the Ministry of Science and Innovation to prepare the new Act on Research, Technology and Innovation, passed in 2011.
Previously he had held several managing positions at the Telecommunications Market Commission, the Spanish telecom and auditovisual regulator, and Telefónica I+D.
He made his Ph.D thesis in the Institute of Materials Physics of the CSIC and in the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics. As a researcher, he worked in Bellcore, AT&T Bell Labs, CSIC and Telefónica I+D and authored over 40 scientific publications in international journals.
