People

Julián Cerón Madrigal, jceron@idibell.cat

Education and appointments:
1995: BA in Biochemistry from Murcia University, Spain
2000: PhD in Biology from Neuroscience Institute, Alicante, Spain. Six months at EMBL as part of the PhD program at Cayetano Gonzalez lab (Heidelberg, Germany). MEC fellowship.
2000: Short Postdoc at Angela Giangrande lab, IGBCM, CNRS, Strasbourg, France. Short Term EMBO fellowship and Development journal Fellowship
2001: Short Postdoc at Yang Shi lab, Department of Pathology, Harvard University,  Cambridge, MA, USA. Generalitat Valenciana short-term postdoctoral Fellowship
2002: Postdoctoral Fellow (MEC Fellowship) and Research Scientist at van den Heuvel lab, MGH/Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
2007: Investigator at Institut de Recerca, Vall d’Hebron Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.
2009: Junior PI, Miguel Servet Program at Bellvitge Institut for Biomedical Research (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain.
2018: Tenure, Principal Investigator at Bellvitge Institut for Biomedical Research (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain.

Carmen Martínez Fernández, cmartinezf@idibell.cat

– 2016-present: PhD in Biomedicine (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Short stays at Biomedicum (University of Helsinki. Finland) and at IUF (Leibniz-Institut, Düsseldorf, Germany). Six months stay at Institut für Toxikologie, Heinrich Heine Universität (Düsseldorf, Germany). DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) fellowship and GENIE STSMs.
– 2015-2016: Master’s degree in Advanced Genetics (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).
– 2011-2015: Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry with Biotechnology mention (Universidad de Málaga). Final bachelor’s thesis with Honours.

David Brena, dahumadab@idibell.cat

– PhD in Biomedicine, UB (2017- Present) (Conacyt fellowship)
– Master in Biomedicine, UB (2016 – 2017)
– BASc in Biotechnology Engineering, ITESM (2010-2015)

Jeremy Vicencio, jvicencio@idibell.cat

–2018 – present: PhD in Biomedicine
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
INPhINIT Fellowship (La Caixa Foundation)
–2017: Erasmus Mundus Masters in Forensic Science
Universidad de Córdoba (Spain)
Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Egas Moniz (Lisbon, Portugal). University of Lincoln (United Kingdom)
Category A Scholarship, European Commission
Best overall performance
– 2010: BS Biology (Cum Laude)
University of the Philippines Manila

Dmytro Kukhtar, dkukhtar@idibell.cat

Mariona Cots Ponjoan, mcots@idibell.cat

– Master in Biomedicine, UPF, Barcelona
– BASc in Biology, Universitat de Girona (2016-2020)

Nuria Goya Iglesias, ngoya@idibell.cat

– Master in Biomedicine, UPF, Barcelona
– BASc in Biochemistry,  Complutense University of Madrid (UCM)  (2016-2020)

Miguel Ruiz López mruizl@idibell.cat

– Master in Advanced Genetics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
– BASc in Biology, Universidad de Málaga (2016-2020)

XÈNIA SERRAT FERRAN, PhD
 Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto.
 email: xenia.serrat.farran@gmail.com

 MONTSERRAT PORTA DE LA RIVA, PhD
 ICFO
 email: Montserrat.Porta@icfo.eu

 KARINNA RUBIO-PEÑA, PhD
 IBPS, Paris.
 email:  karinna.rubio@upmc.fr

 DAVID ARISTIZABAL, PhD 
 Piano lab, at New York University.
 email:  davidaristizabal.udea@gmail.com

 LAURA FONTRODONA MONTALS, PhD.
 UBIKmedia. Scientific writer
 email: Lauraf@ubikmedia.net

 IRIS ERTL, PhD 
 Medical University of Vienna, Austria
 email: iris.ertl@gmx.at

 ERIC CORNES MARAGLIANO, PhD.
 Pasteur Institute, Paris
 Eric.CORNESMARAGLIANO@pasteur.fr

 FRANCISCO JAVIER GARCIA RODRIGUEZ, PhD.
 INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD, Paris
 currogarcia@hotmail.com

 XABIER OSTEIKOETXEA, ex-master student, now PhD.  Present location:
 Semmelweis University Department of Genetics, Cell- and Immunobiology. Budapest, Hungary

 SILVIA TORRES MANJÓN, ex-master student UB. Present Location: ICO-Instituto Catalán de Oncología
 email:  sil.moonie@gmail.com

 MARIA ZORNOZA AGUADO, ex-master student UAB. Present Location: University of Valladolid
 NURIA MARTINEZ VALLVEY, ex-master student UB
 ALBERT GARCIA LOPEZ, ex-master student UAB
 HELENA BENLLOCH RIPOLL, ex- master student, UPF Biomedicine
 LLUIS CAMPOS VICENS, ex-master student, UPF Biomedicine
ISABEL GARCÍA GARCIA, ex-master strudent, UB

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