Santiago Elena#
| Membership Number: | 6544 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Affiliated section(s): | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | https://sfelenalab.csic.es |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8249-5593 |
| Twitter: | @SFElenaLab |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/santiago.elena.5 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/santiago-elena-9b5a33238/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018/10 - present Professor, Institute of Integrative Systems Biology - CSIC, Spain
- 2018/07 - 2022/06 Adjunct professor, Institut of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
- 2016/04 - 2016/10 Visiting professor, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, USA
- 2008/06 - present External professor, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe (NM), USA
- 2006/05 - 2018/10 Professor, Institute for Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology - CSIC, Spain
- 2002/07 - 2002/10 Visiting professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, USA
- 2002/07 - 2006/05 Senior Scientist, Institute for Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology - CSIC, Spain
- 2001/09 - 2002/07 Associate professor, Institute Cavanilles of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Spain
- 1997/10 - 2001/09 Assistant professor, Department of Genetics, University of Valencia, Spain
- 1995/10 - 1997/12 Postdoctoral fellow, Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Evolutionary and population genetics
- Molecular epidemiology and phylogenomics
- Genomics
- Virus evolution
- Microbial experimental evolution
- Molecular systems biology
- Virus-host interactions
- Mutations, epistasis, pleiotropy and the evolution of complexity
- Mathematical modeling of viral population dynamics
Honours and Awards
- 1991 PhD fellowship, Valencian Regional Government, Spain
- 1995 Extraordinary doctorate award, University of Valencia, Spain
- 1995 Postdoctoral fellowship, Ministry of Education and Science, Spain
- 2005 Elected EMBO Young Investigator
- 2006 Young Virologist Award, Spanish Society of Virology
- 2008 Elected external professor, Santa Fe Institute
- 2011 Elected EMBO Member
- 2020 Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
