Carmen González Sotelo, from IIM, new institutional delegate of CSIC in Galicia
She takes over from Javier Rey Campos, who ceases at his own request and will continue as project director of the "CSIC House of Science in Galicia".
Carmen holds a PhD in Biology, she is a researcher at the IIM and head of the Food Biochemistry group. She was director of the Institute of Marine Research from 2011 to 2015.
Santiago de Compostela, martes 17 de enero de 2023. Today there is a 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 a 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 a degree from the University of Navarra (1984) and a PhD (1991) in Biology from the University of Santiago de Compostela. She carried out research stays abroad ( Brandeis University –USA; Torry Research Station –United Kingdom- or University of Texas Branch – USA …), and won a position as tenured scientist at the CSIC in 1998, through which she began working at the IIM, within the Food Biochemistry group. In 2005, she was promoted to scientific researcher on the 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 a 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 principal 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, as well as 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 the 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 the CSIC Delegation in the autonomous community were established in Santiago de Compostela.
At the head of each CSIC Delegation there is an institutional delegate, a 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 the 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 de Guevara y Valdés (2012-2019), Antonio De Ron Pedreira (2019-2021) and Javier Rey Campos (2021-2023).