Javier De Las Rivas MSc, PhD

Dr. Las Rivas Studied MSc in Biology and PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology by the University of the Basque Country (1990). From 1990 to 1993 Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (London, UK). From 1993 to 1998 Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the University of the Basque Country at the Faculties of Pharmacy and Science, teaching Biochemistry, Biomolecules and Metabolism Regulation. In 1998 gained a position as "Cientifico Titular" in the CSIC and in 2006 he became "Investigador Cientifico".

His research as experimental biochemist focused on biochemical studies on protein structure and function, mainly on redox proteins. Since 1998, he works in the new field of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, with two stays for specialization in 1998 in the EMBL (Heidelberg, Germany) and in 2000-2001 in the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York, USA). Since 2002 he is staff scientist in the CIC (Salamanca, Spain) and leader of a research group in Bioinformatics, Functional Genomics and Systems Biology.