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, Research Technician
Isabel Quirós, PhD Student
Belen Benítez Domínguez, PhD Student
Former Graduate Students & 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: Life Sciences Research Associate, Stanford University, USA
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.
Nanxi Lu. Postdoc (2016-18). Currently: Working in patent law.
Xin Sun. Postdoc (2021-22). Currently: Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution, Stanford, USA.
Nora Pyenson. Postdoc (2020-22). Currently: LSRF Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, USA
Maddie Bender. Masters student (2019-20). Currently: Scientific writer at the Daily Beast
Joseph Rauch. Visiting Graduate Student (2013-16). Currently: Project Scientist at the Climate Foundation
Clarissa Scholes. Visiting Graduate Student (2013-16). Currently: Data Scientist in industry.
Felipe Lino. Visiting Graduate Student (2019). Currently: Working in Biotech.
Joshua Goldford. Visiting Graduate Student (2015-16). Currently: Research Scientist at Caltech & startup funder.