Director of the Andalusian Platform for Computational Medicine, Progress and Health Foundation, Sevilla, Spain,

• Group Leader at the Instutute of Biomedicine of Sevilla, sevilla, Spain
• Director of the Bioinformatics node (U715), CIBERER, 2006 - now
• Director of the Functional Genome node. Instituto Nacional de Bioinformática (INB), 2004 -now

• Graduated in Chemistry, University of Valencia, 1985
• PhD in Biology, University of Valencia, 1989

• Director of the Computational Genomics Department, Centro de Investigacion Principe Felipe, 2005-20017
• Director of the Bioinformatics Unit, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas, 2000-2005
• Researcher. Glaxo Wellcome S.A, 1997-2000
• Head of R&D Bioinformatics, TDI S.A, 1995-1997
• Researcher, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, 1994-1995
• Researcher, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrarias, 1990-1993

• Organizer of the series ”International Course on Massive Data Analysis” from 2005 to 2015in Valencia, Cambridge (UK), Lisbon (Portugal), Edinburgh (UK), Glasgow (UK) and Cape Town (South Africa).
• Instructor in several PhD courses
• Supervisor of 19 Doctoral Theses.

• Member of the Science Advisory Board of the Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, Ghent University – VIB. Belgium.
• Member of the FGED advisory board
• Committee member of the “Infrastructure for Tools Integration” committee of the ELIXIR European initiative for the future of Bioinformatics in Europe. http://www.elixir-europe.org/
• Member of the PRACE prioritization panel
• Member of scientific committees of CAMDA, NNSP (IEEE), ISMB, ECCB, ECAI, Spanish Bioinformatics Group.