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Hernán Dopazo (Career)

Head of the Evolutionary Genomics Unit

Bioinformatics and Genomics Department.

Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (CIPF).

Valencia. Spain, from March 2005 

  • Member of the Editorial Advisory Board at the Evolution and Diversity of Life Section of the Encyclopedia of Life Science (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.) 
  • Member of the Editorial Board at The Open Evolution Journal (Bentham Open) 
  • Principal Investigator of the Spanish Network of Biodiversity, Evolution, and Molecular Systematics (REDES)
  • Secretario de la Sociedad Española de Biología Evolutiva (SESBE)
  • Member of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) and the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB)
  • Reviewer Journals : PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS One, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Genome Biology, Evolution, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Bioinformatics, Human Genetics, New Biotechnology, The Open Evolution Journal, Biological Reviews Cambridge Philosophical Society, BioTechniques, Interface (Journal of the Royal Society).

Post Doctoral Positions

  • 2002 - 2005

Postdoc at CNIO Bioinformatics Unit. Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas. CNIO. Madrid. Spain. Funded by Fundación Carolina and La Caixa. Research: Evolutionary relationships of the eukaryotes models species.  Supervisor: Joaquin Dopazo
 

  • 2000 - 2001

Postdoc in the Behavioral Biology Lab at Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental. IBYME - UBA. Argentina.  Funded by Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas CONICET.  Research: Theoretical models of learning and evolution.  Supervisor Enrique T. Segura.
 

  • 1997 - 2000

Postdoc at Complex Systems Research Group. Centro de Estudios Avanzados. CEA - UBA. Argentina.  Funded by Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. CONICET.  Research: Theoretical models of learning and evolution. Supervisor: Roberto Perazzo.
 

  • 1996 - 1997

Postdoc at the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab. Geology Department. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. FCEN. Funded by Programa de Reincorporación de Científicos. Universidad de Buenos Aires. UBA. Argentina. Research: Ontogeny and phylogeny of anuran carpal development. Supervisor: Ana María Baez
 

PhD student

  • 1991 - 1995

PhD student at the "Salamander Group". Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid. MNCN. Evolutionary Biology & Biodiversity Department. Funded by the Ministry of Science & Technology of Spain. 

 

 

PhD Thesis: "Evolution of viviparism in Salamandra salamandra (Amphibia: Urodele)". Some pictures of Cannibalism, Heterochrony and Evolution of viviparity in S. salamandra.

 

 

 

Supervisor: Pere Alberch

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Pre-PhD Student

  • 1988 - 1990 

Student at the "GIBE". Grupo de Investigación en Biología Evolutiva. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Universidad de Buenos Aires. FCEN UBA. Argentina. Research: Ecology and Population Genetics of  Ctenomys porteousi (Rodentia: Octodontidae). 

 

Supervisor: Osvaldo Alfredo Reig

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Past Teaching Activities

  • 2000 - 2001

Full Professor. Evolutionary Theory and Phylogenetics
Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas. Universidad Maimónides. Argentina. Buenos Aires. Argentina

  • 1997 - 1999

Full Professor. Evolutionary Theory. Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas. Universidad Hebrea-Argentina Bar-Ilan. Argentina

  • 1988 - 2001

Teacher Assistant. Genetics of Populations, Molecular Phylogenetics and Macroevolution. Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics Department. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. (UBA)

  • 1985 - 1988

Teacher Assistant. General Biology. Ciclo Básico Común. Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA).

Extra-Academic Activities

  • 2001 - 2002

Advisor at the Sustainable Development & Human Settlements Division. DMAA. Economic Commision for Latin America & Caribbean. ECLAC. United Nations (UN). Research: Sustainability assessment in Latin America and the Caribbean.