Biography

Professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and current Dean Faculty of Biological Sciences. Former Vicedirector of the Doctorate School at the University of Valencia, where I received my Ph.D. (1994) in Biochemistry. I did a short training stay at Richard Houghten's lab at the Torrey Pines for Molecular Studies (1994) working on combinatorial chemistry. I pursued my postdoctoral studies with Gunnar von Heijne (1995-1997) at the Arrhenius Laboratories Stockholm University, where I studied the folding of membrane proteins in micellar and biological membranes. I was Visiting Associated Professor with Arthur E. Johnson at the Texas A&M University (2009), where I learnt molecular techniques to study protein biogenesis, and Visiting Professor with William (Bill) DeGrado at UCSF (2022) where I worked on de novo design of membrane proteins. My research team focuses on basic aspects of the folding and assembly of proteins in lipid membranes.