Bio

We work on intelligent biodesign automation. Today's engineered biology is fermenting the next bio-industrial revolution through synthetic biology, machine learning, and biomanufacturing automation. Our team's mission is to foster sustainable industrial biotechnology of bio-based compounds (biomaterials, pharmaceuticals, next-generation chemicals) through the principles of control engineering and machine learning. We also envision building artificial intelligence assistants for bionics systems; from biosensors to bio-inspired robotics.

Positions

• 2020-present Talento Fellow Senior Reader in Computational Biology, ai2 Institute, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain.

• 2015-2020 Bio-Design Engineering Senior Scientist, SYNBIOCHEM, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, UK.

• 2009-2015 Associate Researcher in Metabolic Pathway Design, iSSB, University of Evry Paris-Saclay/Genopole, France.

• 2006-2008 Frontier Sciences Researcher in Computational Biology, Fujirebio Biotech, Tokyo, Japan.

• 1999-2005 Associate Professor in Industrial Control Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain.

Main degrees

• 2010 Habilitation in Systems Biology, UniverSud Paris, Paris-Saclay, France.

• 1999 Ph.D. in Control Systems Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain.

Visiting appointments

• 2022-24 I2SysBio, CSIC-UV, València, Spain.

• 2018 JBEI, LNBL, Berkeley, California, USA.

• 2014-15 Marie Curie UPFellow, GRIB-IMIM, UPF, Barcelona, Spain.

• 2006 DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany.

• 2005 GeneBio–Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland.

• 2000-02 New York University-Polytechnic, New York City, USA.

Distinctions and merits

• Erdös number: 3.

• National Outstanding Undergraduate Award, endowed in 1992.