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Santiago Elena, researcher at I2SysBio, new member of the Academia Europaea
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Santiago Elena, researcher at I2SysBio, new member of the Academia Europaea
Santiago Elena
Santiago Elena Fito, researcher and co-director of the Institute of Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio) – a joint center of the University of Valencia and the CSIC – has just been named a new member of the Academia Europaea, a European non-governmental scientific organization, founded in 1988 and dedicated to promoting learning, education and research.
The objective of Academia Europaea is the advancement and promotion of excellence in the humanities; the right; the economic, social and political sciences; mathematics; medicine and all branches of natural and technological sciences, anywhere in the world for the benefit of society and for the advancement of education of all ages. Made up of representatives of science and academia, the institution seeks to promote European research, advise governments and international organizations on scientific matters and promote interdisciplinary and international research. The Academia Europaea publishes the journal European Review, through Cambridge Journals.
Santiago Elena Fito is a research professor at the CSIC and co-director of the Institute of Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio, Universitat de València/CSIC), where he directs the Evolutionary and Systems Virology Group. He is also an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute (New Mexico, USA) and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). He has a degree in Biology and completed his doctoral thesis on Evolutionary Genetics of RNA viruses (ribonucleic acid) at the University of Valencia.
His work focuses on the study of the mechanisms by which RNA viruses adapt to their hosts and how this adaptation translates into the manipulation of cellular resources in their host. own benefit. To do this, it combines experimental evolution, molecular biology and omics, molecular epidemiology and mathematical modeling. Among other merits, he is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S) and, recently, the Academia Europaea.