Santiago de Compostela, 2 December 2021. The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Galicia is incorporating seven new researchers, who join the Scale of Senior Scientists of Public Research Organisations (OPIs) with posts at the Biological Mission of Galicia (Pontevedra), the Padre Sarmiento Institute of Galician Studies (Santiago de Compostela), the Institute of Marine Research (Vigo) and the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Santiago de Compostela).
New appointments at the IIM
Míriam Rodríguez García joins the Biosystems and Bioprocess Engineering group as a senior scientist. She holds a degree in Chemistry (2001) and a PhD in Applied Mathematics (2008) from the University of Vigo, where she completed her doctoral thesis on the use of mathematical modelling to optimise the food and biotechnology industry at the IIM. She then moved to Ireland to research the use of mathematical models to understand the progression and treatment of Parkinson’s disease at the Hamilton Institute (2008-2013). Her speciality is knowledge-based mathematical modelling of biological systems, focusing in recent years on bacterial resistance to antimicrobials (including antibiotics and disinfectants). In this field, after returning to the IIM, she was principal investigator of two projects for young researchers focused on the food industry (2015 to the present) and was ranked first in the 2019 Ramón y Cajal grants in the industrial production area.
Xosé Antonio Padín Álvarez joins the Ocean Processes in Global Change group as a senior scientist. He holds a degree in Marine Sciences (2000) and completed his doctoral thesis on the seasonal and interannual evolution of CO2 exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere in the Bay of Biscay at the University of Vigo (Extraordinary Award, 2009). He studied the inorganic carbon system on numerous transoceanic campaigns across the Atlantic Ocean and in recent years his research has focused on the impact of climate change on coastal ecosystems, mainly on the Galician coast, studying the environmental and biological risks that large-scale variation in physical and biogeochemical conditions represents for mussel farming. He has published more than 40 articles in SCI journals and has been principal investigator on two national projects.
Elvira Abollo Rodríguez joins the Marine Ecology and Resources group as a senior scientist. She holds a degree in Biology from the University of Santiago (1994) and a PhD in Biology with an extraordinary doctoral award from the University of Vigo (1999). She spent two postdoctoral years at La Sapienza University in Rome with a Marie Curie contract, returning to Spain with a Ramón y Cajal contract. For the last ten years she has worked at the Marine Technology Centre, developing research and transfer lines with companies linked to the marine environment. Her interest focuses on developing synergistic models of research, development and transfer to improve the resilience and sustainability of the marine ecosystem in the face of infectious diseases, which act as ecological modulators of the resource.
New appointments at the MBG
Xoaquín Moreira Tomé joins the MBG as a senior scientist, where he will lead the Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Herbivore Interactions group. He holds a PhD in Forestry Engineering (2010) from the University of Vigo, with a thesis on genetic variation in defence mechanisms in pines. He has carried out postdoctoral stays at the University of California (Irvine, United States) and the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). His research career has been funded by predoctoral (Xunta de Galicia, FPI) and postdoctoral (Fulbright, Ramón y Cajal) grants. He has led eight research projects and is the author of more than 100 high-impact articles.
Rogelio Santiago Carabelos joins the MBG as a senior scientist to take charge of a new research group, Crop Biochemistry and Physiology. He holds a PhD in Biology (2004) from the University of Vigo; in his thesis he evaluated different biochemical and structural traits in maize and their relationship with resistance to pest attack. After two years at the University of Ottawa and the Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre in Canada, he held postdoctoral contracts at CSIC (I3P CSIC, Juan de la Cierva and Isidro Parga Pondal) and carried out a Ramón y Cajal postdoctoral and teaching stage at the University of Vigo. He has participated in 20 national and international research projects, the last five as principal investigator. His current research focuses on the study of compounds integrated into plant cell walls (lignocellulosic fraction) and their application in genetic improvement for crop protection, animal digestibility and bioenergy production.
New appointment at the IEGPS
Amparo Rubio Martínez joins the History and Heritage group of the Padre Sarmiento Institute of Galician Studies as a senior scientist. She holds a degree (2000) and a PhD in Medieval History from the Complutense University of Madrid (2007). She completed her doctoral thesis on the Royal Treasury and Taxation in Galicia during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs. Since 2018 she has taught at the University of Burgos as an assistant professor. Her current lines of research focus on the study of royal taxation, with special attention to the participation of power groups —nobility, Church and urban oligarchies— in royal revenues, the network of tax agents and businessmen responsible for tax management, economic growth, consumption patterns and social inequality in Galicia in the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age. Her research career has been funded by numerous predoctoral (FPU-MEC, Fundación Caja Madrid) and postdoctoral grants (MICINN, Jae-Doc-CSIC, Juan de la Cierva), and she has carried out postdoctoral stays at prestigious national and international research centres (Royal Academy of History, Lumière Lyon 2 University, Universities of Valladolid and Burgos). She has participated in 11 research projects and is the author of more than thirty works, including monographs, scientific articles and contributions to collective volumes.
New appointment at Incipit
Xosé Lois Armada Pita joins Incipit as a senior scientist with the profile “Protohistory of Atlantic Europe”. He holds a degree (1999) and a PhD (2005) in Humanities (cultural heritage itinerary), both with Extraordinary Awards, from the University of A Coruña. He developed his postdoctoral career at Durham University, CSIC and University College London. In 2016 he rejoined Incipit as a Ramón y Cajal researcher. His research focuses on pre- and protohistoric metallurgy in Atlantic Europe and the western Mediterranean, paying attention to technological and socioeconomic aspects and also to the environmental impact generated by these activities. He has researched in museums and archaeological sites in Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom and France. He is currently coordinator of the Conexión-Arqueología / ArchaeologyHub.CSIC network, whose objective is to bring together archaeological research carried out in this organisation and contribute from the discipline to the major challenges and debates of the present.