Alfonso Martinez-Arias#

• Since February 2021 ICREA Research Professor, Systems Bioengineering program Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)
• October 2003 - January 2021 Professor of Developmental Mechanics. Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge
• January 2010 - March 2011 Director of the Center for the Physics of Medicine of the University of Cambridge
• October 2002 - October 2003 Lecturer in Genetics at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK) under a Wellcome Trust University Award Scheme
• 1987 - 2002 Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences in the Department of Zoology and, from July 2000 in the Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK)
• August 1986 - August 1987 Staff of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (UK)
• 1983 - 1986 postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Dr.P. Lawrence, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (UK).
• 1979 - 1983 PhD work on the use of ß-galactosidase fusions to study gene expression in yeast, under the supervision of Dr. M. Casadaban. University of Chicago, Chicago (USA)
• 1976 - 1979 research studentship towards a “tesina” in the Dpt. Biochemistry under the supervision of A. Ribera, Universidad Complutense, Madrid (Spain)

• Systems biology
• Stem cells
• Organoid biology
• Developmental biology

• 2016 SRUK (Society of Spanish Researchers in the UK) Life achievement award
• 2015 Royal Society of Biology, undergraduate textbook Prize for the Fifth edition of “Principles of Development” Oxford University Press
• 2012 Waddington Medal of the British Society of Developmental Biology
• 2007 Elected member of EMBO
• 2003 Personal Chair (Professorship), University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK)
• 2019 Advanced European Research Council Grant Award on “The mammaliam body plan blueprint, an in vitro approach”
• 2010 Human Science Frontier Grant (PI) on “Information processing by signal transduction and gene regulatory networks in mammalian development”
• 2009 Advanced European Research Council Grant Award on “Molecular origins and function of dynamic heterogeneities in mouse ES cells and pre-implantation embryos”
• 1987 - 2002 Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship, held at the University of Cambridge
• 1983 - 1986, Long term EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (UK)
• 1978 - 1979 Fullbright Scholarship to attend the University of Chicago, Chicago (USA)

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