Studies and academic degrees:
Professor of Biology at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). Director and Group leader of the Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva in this University. Promoter of the Institute for Evolutionary Biology, IBE (UPF-CSIC). Former Professor at the Barcelona University. His research field is in many aspects on the study of the human genome variation and diversity: human population genetics, molecular evolution, comparative genomics and the interaction between human evolutionary biology and other fields, including medicine, genetic of complex diseases, statistical genetics and others. Recent publications are mainly on the footprint of natural selection in the human genome and the emerging field of Evolutionary Systems Biology. He has published over 290 research papers, most of them in since its major dedication to genome studies (since 1992). Member of Institut d'Estudis Catalans and a number of international organizations.
Director of the Spanish National Genotyping Center (CeGen).
Director of ICREA (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats).
POSITIONS
‑ TA and PhD Student 1974-1976 and assistant Professor (contract) 1997-1982, University of Barcelona.
- Assistant Professor (tenure) since May 1982. University of Barcelona.
- Work in Stanford University with Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1989 and 1991)
- Full Professor (Catedrático) Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona. Since 1988.
- Full Professor. Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, School of Health and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). Since November 1998
- Dean in the Faculty of Biology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. 1998-september 1999
- Vice-Chancellor for Research of the University Pompeu Fabra. July 1999-june 2001
- Director of the Spanish National Genotyping Center (CeGen) funded by Genome Spain.
- Director of ICREA (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies)
OTHER
- ERASMUS Prize of the European Union to the Internacional Cooperation Program PIC 89-B-0191/13 and 90-B-0025/13, in Biology, with 17 participating Universities.
- Premio Europeu de Divulgació Científica Estudi General. Universitat de València i Ajuntament d'Alzira con el libro Una història biològica de l'espècie humana, de J. Bertranpetit i C. Junyent. Ciutat d'Alzira, València, octubre 1997.
- Invited to the most important meetings in various disciplines, including genome studies, human origins and natural selection.
- Grants from al majors funding agencies, Catalan, Spanish, European and International.
- Member of the board of several Catalan, Spanish and European funding agencies
- Editor of two journals: Annals of Human Genetics and Gene.
- In 2002 received the Distinció Investigadora de la Generalitat de Catalunya (Annual award of Science of the Catalan Science Ministry)
- Since 2002, Director-Coordinator of the CeGen, Spanish Genotyping Center, funded by Genome Spain
- Since 2007 Director of ICREA, Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies.
As the most important part of CV are the publications, a list can be seen in PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez) or in the personal web page (http://www.upf.edu/bioevo/CV-Bertranpetit.htm) not well updated
Research interests:
human population genetics and dynamics on DNA medically and evolutively relevant regions in humans and other primates