Jordi Alberch, new temporary Rector of the University of Barcelona
Today, the Rector of the University of Barcelona, Dídac Ramírez, who reached the age limit for retirement, appointed the Vice-Rector of Research, Innovation and Transfer, Jordi Alberch, temporary rector from October 1 until the appointment of the elected rector in the elections of todayʼs extraordinary Governing Council, September 30. During this period of time, the competencies of the vice-rectorʼs office will be taken by Professor Conxita Àvila, from the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), who was the rectorʼs delegate for Strategy Research Actions.
Today, the Rector of the University of Barcelona, Dídac Ramírez, who reached the age limit for retirement, appointed the Vice-Rector of Research, Innovation and Transfer, Jordi Alberch, temporary rector from October 1 until the appointment of the elected rector in the elections of todayʼs extraordinary Governing Council, September 30. During this period of time, the competencies of the vice-rectorʼs office will be taken by Professor Conxita Àvila, from the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), who was the rectorʼs delegate for Strategy Research Actions.
Jordi Alberch, appointed vice-rector with competencies on research in November 2008, has participated in the governing teams of the two terms of office led by the rector Dídac Ramírez. He is professor at the Department of Biomedicine of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Barcelona and researcher at the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS).
Graduated and holding a doctorate in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Barcelona, Alberch is expert in the field of physiopathology of neurodegenerative diseases, and developed his research activity in centers such as Georgetown University and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, United States, and the Karolinska Instituted, in Sweeden. Jordi Alberch presides the Spanish Society on Neuroscience (SENC), a prestigious institution that promotes research and collaboration in this multi-disciplinary field. He is head of the consolidated research group of Pathophysiology of Neurodegenerative Diseases of the UB, a team with several research lines on Huntingtonʼs disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that provokes involuntary movements, psychiatric alterations and dementia due a mutation in the huntingtina gene (HTT). Alberch is also main researcher of the Group of Pathophysiology and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases (Area of Neurosciences) of IDIBAPS and Research Group on Huntingtonʼs disease of the Research Center for Networked Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED).
Author of a high number of articles in international scientific journals, Jordi Alberch is part of the editorial committee of several scientific publications in the field of neurosciences and participates in national and international assessment agencies.