Irene Miguel-aliaga DPhil

Irene is Professor at Imperial College London and Section Chair and Programme Leader at the MRC LMS, London (UK). She received her DPhil in Genetics from the University of Oxford (UK), working with Kay E. Davies, and explored how neurons acquire their identity during postdoctoral work with Stefan Thor at Harvard (USA), Linkoping University (Sweden) and then Alex Gould at NIMR (now Crick Institute, UK). She established her own lab at the University of Cambridge in 2008 thanks to a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship. She then moved to London to become a Programme Leader at the MRC LMS at the end of 2012. She was elected to the EMBO YIP program in 2012 and became a full EMBO member in 2017. She is the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant and, previously, an ERC Starting Grant.