Luis Manuel Rubio Herrero#
| Membership Number: | 6049 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cbgp.upm.es/index.php/es/informacion-cientifica/synbio2/nitrogen-fixation |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1596-2475 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - Research Scientist. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
- 2012 - 2023 Profesor Titular (Associate Professor). Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- 2016 - 2020 Deputy Director. Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- 2015 - 2016 Head of the Research Group in Molecular and Computational Biology. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- 2011 - 2012 Profesor Contratado Doctor (Assistant Professor). Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- 2008 - 2011 Head of the Biological and Biochemical Processes Unit. IMDEA Energy Foundation, Spain
- 2006 - 2008 Associate Research, Plant and Microbial Biology. University of California - Berkeley, USA
- 2002 - 2006 Assistant Research, Plant and Microbial Biology. University of California - Berkeley, USA
- 1999 - 2002 Postdoctoral Research Associate. Department of Biochemistry. University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
- 1993 - 1999 PhD student. Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis (CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla), Spain
Fields of Scholarship
- Biological engineering
- Microbial biotechnology
- Metalloprotein biochemistry
- Biological nitrogen fixation
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2022 Chair of the European Nitrogen Fixation Conference
- 2021 XXIII Fertiberia PhD thesis director accesit award (Spain and Portugal)
- 2019 UPM Research Prize to best public-private partnership
- 2017 Second Prize UPM Innovatech 2T Challenge
- 2008 ERC Starting Grant
- 2007 Ramón y Cajal Fellowhip
- 1992 Premio Extraordinario de Licenciatura (For the highest GPA at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Seville)
