Santiago of Compostela, Tuesday 17 of January of 2023. Today there is the replacement at the head of the Institutional Delegation of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) in Galicia: Carmen González Sotelo, from the Institute of Marine Research (IIM) replaces Javier Rey Campos, from the Biological Mission of Galicia (MBG), who ceases at his own request after serving in the position since September 2021.
The new institutional delegate will exercise, in the territorial scope of the autonomous community, functions of coordination and representation before other public and private institutions and before other R+D+I agents with the presence in the territory, direction and management and support to research activity, knowledge transfer and innovation, training, dissemination and promotion of scientific culture.
Carmen González Sotelo (Caracas, Venezuela, 1961)
Carmen González Sotelo has the degree from the University of Navarra (1984) and the PhD (1991) in Biology from the University of Santiago of Compostela. She carried out research stays abroad ( Brandeis University –USA; Torry Research Station –United Kingdom- or University of Texas Branch – USA …), and won the position the tenured scientist at CSIC in 1998, through which she began working at IIM, within the Food Biochemistry group. In 2005, she was promoted to scientific researcher on CSIC scientific staff scale and in 2022 to research professor (pending appointment in the Official State Gazette or BOE).
Her lines of research include the development of analysis methods that guarantee the traceability and correct labeling of fishing and aquaculture products, the recovery of fishing and aquaculture by-products, and specifically the study of the potential of collagen and hydrolyzates. of collagen from skin residues in biomedical and cosmetic applications.
An author for more than the hundred research papers, published in indexed (SCI) high-impact journals and three patents for the identification of species in canned marine products.
She has participated in more than 15 national and regional research projects and in 11 European Union projects, being the lead investigator of nearly 19 projects, including “UE DNAIS” and “LABELFISH”, of which she was coordinator. .
Currently, he coordinates “SEATRACES”, financed by the Interreg Atlantic Area programme, in which 10 partners from 5 European countries participate, and the “SEAFOOD-ID” State Plan project. Both are working on methodologies that allow the verification of the geographical origin of fishing and aquaculture products, the well the other aspects related to the information that must be included in these foods.
In the field of management, she has been director (2011-2015) of IIM, an institute of which she was also deputy director for several years.
The Delegation of CSIC in Galicia
The CSIC has had Institutional Delegations in the different territories almost since its inception. In 1943 those of Galicia and Navarra were created and in 1985 the headquarters of CSIC Delegation in the autonomous community were established in Santiago of Compostela.
At the head of each CSIC Delegation there is an institutional delegate, the career civil servant at one of the scientific levels –research professor, scientific researcher, head scientist– from Public Research Organizations. He is appointed by the Presidency of CSIC and can make this function compatible with the scientific position that he had been holding until the appointment.
To date, there have been seven institutional delegates in Galicia: José Manuel Gallardo Abuín (1985-1992), Mª Cruz Mato Iglesias (1992-2002), Amando Ordás Pérez (2002-2006), Uxío Labarta Fernández (2006-2012), Eduardo Pardo of Guevara and Valdés (2012-2019), Antonio Of Ron Pedreira (2019-2021) and Javier Rey Campos (2021-2023).