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.