Javier Buceta PhD

Javier Buceta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Lehigh University. Buceta graduated in Physics (M.Sc. Fundamental Physics) in Madrid and also has an M.Sc. degree in Computer Science. He was later awarded by La Jolla Interfaces in Science/Centre for Theoretical Biological Physics program to conduct research on ‘Left-Right Symmetry Breaking in Embryo Development at Salk Institute for Biological Studies/UCSD (J. C. Izpisua-Belmonte and K. Lindenberg). In 2004 he moved to the Barcelona Science Park as a Ramón y Cajal fellow and got tenured in 2009. In 2014, he accepted a position as Associate Professor at Lehigh University (Pennsylvania, USA) in the Bioengineering Department and the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, where he was the founding D.T. & W.E. Schiesser Faculty Fellow. In 2019 he got the Excellence in Research Scholarship and Leadership award at Lehigh University and in 2020 he moved back to Spain to the I2SysBio as a group leader and faculty member. Javier Buceta has an extensive publication list, organized both national and international congresses, and in 2011-2013 he was elected as a member of the direction board of the Spanish Physics Royal Society.