Jesús Jiménez Barbero
Jesús Jiménez Barbero is a Spanish scientist who has contributed to the advance of glycoscience by unraveling the conformational properties of carbohydrates and analogues and the molecular basis of their interactions with proteins, using a multidisciplinary approach that employs carbohydrate synthesis, molecular biology, molecular modelling and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy.Academic career
He studied chemistry at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid where he obtained his PhD in 1987. He continued post-doctoral research at National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill. From 1990 to 1992, he was visiting scientist at Carnegie Mellon University.
He returned to Spain, rising to Senior Research Scientist of CSIC at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Research Professor of CSIC at the Centre for Biological Research where he was the head of the Chemical and Physical Biology Department. He moved to CIC bioGUNE at Bilbao in 2014, as Ikerbasque Professor and Scientific Director. He currently holds an ERC Advanced GrantPositions
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- He is co-author of more than 500 publications in international journals
- He has delivered more than 250 lectures at symposia and institutions
- He has tutored more than 25 PhD Theses and supervised more than 30 postdoctoral associates