Alvaro Sanchez ([email protected])
Principal Investigator
Brief Bio: Alvaro holds an undergraduate degree in Theoretical Physics by UAM in Madrid. He then moved to the USA, where he did his doctoral and postdoctoral training in Biophysics and Evolutionary Systems Biology at Brandeis and MIT. In 2013 he started his own group as a Rowland Fellow at Harvard. He moved the lab to Yale in 2016 as an Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021. He moved back to Spain in 2022 as a group leader first at CNB-CSIC and then at IBFG. He's received multiple grants and awards, including an ERC CoG, a Packard Fellowship, an NIH MIRA award and an HFSP grant. [Curriculum Vitae] [Google Scholar]
Principal Investigator
Brief Bio: Alvaro holds an undergraduate degree in Theoretical Physics by UAM in Madrid. He then moved to the USA, where he did his doctoral and postdoctoral training in Biophysics and Evolutionary Systems Biology at Brandeis and MIT. In 2013 he started his own group as a Rowland Fellow at Harvard. He moved the lab to Yale in 2016 as an Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021. He moved back to Spain in 2022 as a group leader first at CNB-CSIC and then at IBFG. He's received multiple grants and awards, including an ERC CoG, a Packard Fellowship, an NIH MIRA award and an HFSP grant. [Curriculum Vitae] [Google Scholar]
Other Lab Members (Who still owe me a Bio & their Pic ;)
Andrea Arrabal, PhD student
Isabel Quirós, PhD Student
Belen Benítez Domínguez, PhD Student
Abby Skwara, Visiting PhD Student
Alba Rodriguez, Lab Manager
Lab Alumni:
Former Postdocs.
Djordje Bajic. Postdoc (2016-22). Currently: Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez. Postdoc (2019-21). Currently: Assistant Professor, University of California Irvine, USA
Alicia Sanchez-Gorostiaga. Postdoc (2016-18). Currently: Principal Investigator, IMIDRA, Madrid, Spain
Melisa Osborne. Postdoc (2015-16). Currently: Research Assistant Professor, Boston University, USA
Sylvie Estrela. Postdoc (2017-22). Currently: Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, USA
Xin Sun. Postdoc (2021-22). Currently: Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Nora Pyenson. Postdoc (2020-22). Currently: LSRF Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU, USA
Juan Diaz-Colunga. Postdoc (2021-24). Currently: Principal Investigator--Ramon y Cajal Fellow, IBFG, CSIC, Spain
Nanxi Lu. Postdoc (2016-18). Currently: Working in patent law, Washington DC, USA
Former Graduate Students
Sandeep Choubey. Visiting Graduate Student (2013-15). Currently: Assistant Professor, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India
Jean Vila. PhD Student (2016-22). Currently: Postdoctoral scientist, Stanford University, USA.
Chang-Yu Chang. PhD Student (2017-22). Currently: Postdoctoral Scientist, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Maddie Bender. Masters student (2019-20). Currently: Scientific writer at the Daily Beast
Joseph Rauch. Visiting PhD Student (2013-16). Currently: Project Scientist at the Climate Foundation
Clarissa Scholes. Visiting PhDStudent (2013-16). Currently: Data Scientist in industry.
Felipe Lino. Visiting PhD Student (2019). Currently: Working in Biotech.
Joshua Goldford. Visiting PhD Student (2015-16). Currently: Research Scientist at Caltech & startup funder.
