Science policy
Participation of CRAG researchers in committees and organizations:
Armand Sánchez
Vice-rector of Research at the UAB.
Àlex Clop
Member of the CES (Comité d’Évaluation Scientifique) of the Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR) focusing on animal biology, plant biology, and micro-organism biology. Vice-chair of the Aence National de la Recherche (since 2020).
Blanca San Segundo
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal RICE, Springer (since 2016).
Elena Monte
Elected member of the Board of Directors of American Society of Plant Biology (ASPB). Elected member (Secretary) of the Board of the Spanish Society of Plant Biology (SEBP). Member of the CSIC “LIFE” global area commission, within the Agricultural Sciences subcommittee (since July 2023).
Ignacio Rubio-Somoza
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral School “PhD in Biological sciences and applied biotechnologies” of the University of Turin (since 2022).
Jae-Seong Yang
Member of ASCoF: Association des Scientifiques Coréens en France (since 2018). Member of KMB: The Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology (since 2018). Member of KSIEC: The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (since 2019).
Jordi Garcia-Mas
Scientific Director at IRTA.
José Luis Riechmann
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group and editor in the Plant Biology area (since 2011). Member of the Academia Europaea (since 2013). Member of the Board of Directors of Plants for the Future Technology Platform (Plant ETP) (since 2022). Member of the Working Group “Sustainable Agriculture” of the Plant ETP (since 2019) and deputy vice-chair of this Working Group (since 2022).
Josep Maria Casacuberta
Member of the Working Group GMO Applications molecular characterisation of the EFSA’s (European Food Safety Authority) Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms (since 2019). Member of the Advisory board of the PGRIP platform (Plant Genetic Resources International Platform) (since March 2019). Member of the Managing Committee of the COST Action PlantEd (since March 2019). Member of the Scientific Committee of ARRIGE (Association for Responsible Research and Innovation in Genome Editing) (since May 2019).
Juan José López-Moya
Member of the CSIC “LIFE” global area commission, within the Agricultural Sciences subcommittee (from December 2018 to March 2023). Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Leibniz-Institute DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikrooganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany (since July 2021).
L. Maria Lois
Participating author of CSIC white paper “Biotechnology and Plant Breeding”, Volume 6: Sustainable Primary Production, series “CSIC Scientific Challenges: Towards 2030”.
Marcel Amills
Editor of the Livestock Science journal. Member of the Board of Directors of the international VarGoats consortium.
Núria Sánchez-Coll
Member of the International Society for Pest Information (since 2014). Member of the Marie Curie Alumni Association “Spain-Portugal Chapter” (since 2014).
Paloma Mas
Expert advisor of the Committee Appointment of a Professorship position of the Umeå University.
Pere Arús
Elected associate member of the Scientific Advisory Board of INIA (Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias) of Chile (2020-2022). Evaluator of the ‘Scientific Employment Stimulus’ call of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2021 and 2022 calls).
Pere Puigdomènech
Chairman of the Committee for Research Integrity, Conselleria d’Universitats i Recerca, Generalitat de Catalunya. President of the Scientific and Ethical Committee of the Barcelona Zoo, Barcelona City Council. President of the Biological Sciences Section of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC). Member of the Board of ALLEA (All European Academies) and member of the ALLEA Permanent Working Group on Science and Ethics. Member of the Biosciences Steering Committee of EASAC (European Academies Scientific Advisory Council). Member of the Ethics Committee of INRAE-CIRAD-JFEREMER-IRD of France. Chairman of the Life Sciences Panel of the PASIFIC Project, a COFUND action managed by the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Salomé Prat
President of VOCALIA 4 “Earth Sciences, Agriculture and Environment” of the COSCE (Confederation of Scientific Societies of Spain).
Teresa Altabella
President of the Spanish Society of Plant Biology (SEBP) for the term 2021-2025.
