Purificacion Lopez-Garcia#
| Membership Number: | 5487 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://deemteam.fr |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0927-0651 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2019 Research Director, Classe Exceptionnelle DRCE, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- 2013 - 2019 Research Director, Classe 1 DR1, CNRS
- 2007 - 2013 Research Director, Classe 2 DR2, CNRS
- 2002 - 2007 Research Scientist CR1, CNRS
- 2001 - 2002 Associated Research Scientist, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
- 2000 - 2001 Assistant professor, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
- 1999 - 2000 Associated Research Scientist, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Spain
- 1995 - 1999 Postdoc, Marie-Curie fellow and Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia fellow, Université Paris-Sud, France
- 1993 - 1994 Postdoc, EU research grant, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
- 1989 - 1992 PhD fellow, Centro de Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Fields of Scholarship
- Microbial diversity (archaea, bacteria, protists)
- Geobiology
- Extreme environments
- Microbial evolution
- Early evolution
- Origin of life
- Metagenomics & single cell 'omics'
Honours and Awards
- Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (elected in 2020)
- EMBO Member (elected in 2019)
- Société Philomatique de Paris (since 2018)
- CNRS Silver Medal 2017
- Associated member of the Académie Royale des Arts et des Sciences de Belgique (elected in 2015)
- ERC Advanced Grant ProtistWorld (2013-2019)
