Purificacion Lopez-Garcia - Curriculum Vitae#

Administrative positions:

• Group leader - DEEM (Diversité, ecologie, evolution microbiennes; www.deemteam.fr). 7 staff members, 6 postdocs, 9 PhD students
  
• Current Scientific Advisory Boards: CNRS Institut Sciences Biologiques, Unit Ecology Systematics Evolution CNRS-Univ. Paris-Saclay, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva CSIC-Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
  
• Board of directors - French Society of Exo/Astrobiology

Training & host:

• 13 past postdocs; 3 current postdocs; 8 past PhD students; 6 current PhD students (March 2020)
  
• 14 visiting professors/sabbatical stay (>2 months) ; 9 foreign visiting PhD students (>2 months); 24 internships

Committees & evaluation panels:

• 19 inter-annual evaluation national and international committees including ERC-CoG panel member LS8 (panel chair 2015, 2017)
  
• 4 professor - 4 assistant professor hiring committees, 8 HDR and 37 PhD committees

Current editorial boards:

• Environmental Microbiology, Life, Biology Direct, Frontiers in Microbiology

Seminars & conferences:

• Invited conferences and seminars, keynote speaker - 132
  
• Communications to meetings - 174
  

Teaching - ca. 20 h/year (microbial ecology, metagenomics, origin of life, early evolution); 10 international schools

Organization of symposia & conferences:

• 15 Scientific boards and/or symposium organizer in international conferences

Current grants:

• 2015 - 2019 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network SINGEK, PI ESR7, Deep eukaryotic phylogenomics
  
• 2019 - 2023 French ANR – Microbialites: Biogeochemical determinants of microbialite formation
  
• EC2CO 2020, Adaptations et interactions hydrogéochimie-microbiomes dans des lacs multi-extrêmes de la Dépression du Danakil (Ethiopie)
  

Field trips/cruises - 3 oceanographic cruises (East Pacific Rise, Mediterranean & Marmara Sea), chief scientist/co-organizer 20 field expeditions (e.g. Atacama Desert - Chile, Danakil Depression - Ethiopia, Pilbara Drilling Project -Australia, Lake Baikal - Russia, alkaline crater lakes - Mexico)

Outreach:

79 events, including conferences, public debates, interviews for popular science magazines and journals, advisor/co-author popular books, co-author of science exhibitions, science in theatre, TV and radio interviews, participation in 4 scientific documentaries