Toni Gabaldon PhD

Toni Gabaldon has a degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Valencia, with a special mention. After 4 years working on yeast gene expression regulation at the Biochemistry department of that university, he moved in 2001 to Nijmegen University (The Netherlands) where he worked in comparative genomics and evolution at the bioinformatics department of the NIjmegen Center for Molecular Life Sciences. In 2005 he obtained his PhD from the Nijmegen University, which obtained the NCMLS award for the best thesis of the year. He was awarded an EMBO postdoctoral fellowship to move to the bioinformatics department at CIPF (Valencia, Spain).

In September 2008 he was appointed group leader at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (Barcelona, Spain), where he is leading the Comparative Genomics group. Dr. Gabaldón has authored five book chapters and more than 20 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, including Science and Nature. He teaches bioinformatics and comparative genomics in several Master courses and he is an associate professor at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain).