Jose Luis Riechmann Fernández#
| Membership Number: | 3550 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificStaff/Jose-Luis-Riechmann-Fernandez-444 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 Director, Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics
- 2007 ICREA Research Professor at Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) CSIC-IRTA-UAB
- 2008–2012 Visiting Associate, California Institute of Technology
- 2004–2008 Research Faculty (Senior Research Associate), California Institute of Technology
- 2002–2008 Director, Millard and Muriel Jacobs Genetics and Genomics Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- 1999–2002 Visitor in Biology, California Institute of Technology.
- 1998–2002 Senior Scientist / Team Leader, Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.
Fields of Scholarship
- Transcription factors
- Genomics
- Plant Development
- Plant Genomics
- Plant Biotechnology
- Plant Molecular Biology
- Arabidopsis thaliana
- DNA Microarrays
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1995-1996 Plan de Formación de Personal Investigador Postdoctoral fellowship, MEC, Spain
- 1993-1994 EMBO Long Term Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 1992 1st Doctorate Special Award (Biology). Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
- 1992 Award for outstanding PhD Thesis. Caja de Madrid, Spain
- 1991-1992 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas postdoctoral fellowship, Spain
- 1988-1991 Plan de Formación de Personal Investigador, doctoral fellowship, MEC, Spain
