Jaume Bertranpetit#
Membership Number: | 5723 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
Elected: | 2021 |
Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
Homepage(s): | https://www.upf.edu/web/evolutionary-systems-biology |
ORCID: | 0000-0003-0100-0590 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since November 1998 Full Professor, Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, School of Health and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
- 2007 - 2015 Director of ICREA (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies)
- 2004 - 2011 Director of the Spanish National Genotyping Center (CeGen) funded by Genome Spain and Instituto de Salud Carlos III
- July 1999 - June 2001 Vice-Chancellor for Research of the Pompeu Fabra University
- 1998 - September 1999 Dean in the Faculty of Biology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- 1988 - 1998 Full Professor (Catedrático) Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona
- 1989 and 1991 Work in Stanford University with Luca Cavalli-Sforza
- May 1982 Assistant Professor (tenure), University of Barcelona
- 1974 - 1976 TA and PhD student and assistant Professor (contract) 1997-1982, University of Barcelona
Fields of Scholarship
- Human Evolution
- Anthropology
- Genomics
- Population genetics
Honours and Awards
- 1990 ERASMUS Prize of the European Community to the Program of Cooperation Inter-Universities, in the Area of Biology and with the participation of 17 Universities
- 1997 European Scientific Dissemination Price. University of Valencia for the book "A biological history of the human species"
- 1994. Elected membre of the Institute of Catalan Studies
- 2001 “Serra d’Or” Award. Publications of the Abbey of Montserrat. Barcelona
- 2002 JSPS Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan (Short Term). Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. FY2002
- 2005 - 2009 Distinction in University Research, Research award of the Catalan Science Ministry)
- 2010 Elected membre of the RACAB, Royal Accademy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona
- 2015 Elected Fellow. King’s College, Cambridge
- 2015 Narcís Monturiol Medal for scientific and technological merit. Government of Catalonia
- 2018 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Toulouse Paul Sabatier