– They have already taken up their posts at their respective centres: IIM, MBG and Incipit.
– In addition, research staff from IIM (Vigo), MBG (Pontevedra) and Incipit (Santiago de Compostela) have been promoted internally to the categories of research professor and research scientist.
Santiago de Compostela, 29 September 2020. The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Galicia is incorporating three new researchers as civil servants: two tenured scientists at the Biological Mission of Galicia (MBG, Pontevedra) and the Institute of Marine Research (IIM), and one distinguished researcher at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit). At the same time, one IIM research scientist is being promoted internally to the Research Professor scale, while three tenured scientists from IIM, one from MBG and one from Incipit are being promoted to the Research Scientist scale. These appointments correspond to the 2017 Public Employment Offer.
“Entry into the scientific scales of the General State Administration takes place through either the civil-service or employment career path. Career civil-servant research staff working for the Public Research Organisations of the General State Administration, as is the case of CSIC, are grouped into the following scientific scales: 1) research professor, with functions requiring particular responsibility and a research record of special relevance; 2) research scientist, with high-level functions within the different activities that make up the specific purpose of the organisation; and 3) tenured scientist, with functions covering scientific or technological research activities. In all three cases, a doctoral degree is required,” explains Antonio de Ron Pedreira, CSIC institutional delegate in Galicia. He adds that Law 14/2011 of 1 June on Science, Technology and Innovation also provides for three employment-contract modalities for research staff, including distinguished researcher, intended for Spanish or foreign researchers with a recognised career in the scientific and technical field who hold a doctoral degree.
Appointments and internal promotions at the IIM
Mónica Carrera Mouriño joins the Marine Products Chemistry group as a tenured scientist. She holds a degree (2000) and a PhD in Biology with honours (2008) from the University of Vigo. She carried out her doctoral thesis on proteomics and authentication of marine-origin foods at the IIM, and completed postdoctoral stays at the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology (Zurich, Switzerland) and at Thermo Fisher Scientific (California, United States). Her speciality is advanced proteomics and systems biology in the context of food safety and allergies to marine-origin foods. Her research career has been funded through predoctoral and postdoctoral grants and contracts, including a Marie Curie FP7-IEF Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Ramón y Cajal contract. She has taken part in 25 research projects and is the author of more than 45 high-impact articles.
Josep Rotllant Moragas, from the Aquatic Biotechnology group, is promoted internally to the Research Scientist scale. He holds a degree and a PhD in Biochemistry from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Since 2008 he has carried out his research at the IIM, where he had been a tenured scientist since 2010. He directs the functional genomics service and chairs the IIM bioethics committee (OEBA). His research focuses on functional genomics applied to the development of marine species, innovation and optimization of aquaculture systems, animal welfare in aquaculture and the development of new aquaculture species and products.
Santiago Pascual del Hierro, from the Marine Ecology and Biodiversity group, is promoted internally to the Research Scientist scale. He holds a degree and a PhD in Biology from the University of Vigo. Since 2007 he has carried out his research at the IIM as a tenured scientist. His interests focus on the ecology of marine resources, developing a pioneering and emerging line in resource assessment centred on understanding symbiotic relationships and their impact on the socio-ecological system that sustains the resource, understood as a holobiont to be assessed and managed in production systems and throughout the value chain of fishery products.
Eva Balsa Canto, from the Process Engineering group, is promoted internally to the Research Scientist scale. She holds a degree in Physics from the University of Santiago de Compostela and a PhD from the University of Vigo. Since 1997 she has carried out her research at the IIM, where she had been a tenured scientist since 2007. Her research lines fall within the modelling and optimization of biological systems and bioprocesses of interest to the food and biotechnology industries. Her most recent research focuses on the role of microorganisms in food safety and as drivers for obtaining food ingredients and products, using a multiscale mathematical modelling approach.
Graham Pierce, from the Marine Ecology and Resources department, is promoted internally to the Research Professor scale. He holds degrees in Zoology and a PhD in Zoology from the Universities of London and Aberdeen. Since January 2017 he has carried out his research at the IIM on the biology, ecology, exploitation and conservation of marine animals, with special interest in cephalopods and cetaceans.
Appointments and internal promotions at MBG and Incipit
Bernardo Ordás López joins the Maize Genetics and Breeding group (MBG) as a tenured scientist.
Ana María Butrón Gómez, from the Maize Genetics and Breeding group (MBG), is promoted internally to the Research Scientist scale.
César Parcero Oubiña, head of the research line “Geospatial Technologies for Archaeology and Heritage” (Incipit), is promoted internally to the Research Scientist scale.
César González García has passed the selection process to fill permanent employment positions, outside the collective agreement, for doctoral research staff with I3 certification, in the distinguished researcher category in the Public Research Organisations of the General State Administration, assigned to Incipit with the profile “Statistical and astronomical methods applied to heritage”.