Fitxa persona

Carlos Romá Mateo (Valencia, 1980) is a Biochemist and holds a Ph. D. in molecular biology and genetics. The theme of his doctoral thesis (2004 - 2009, Prince Felipe Research Center and Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester) was the study of protein families involved in cell signaling in the context of cancer, after which he studied the disease of Lafora, a rare type of epilepsy of fatal consequences (2009 - 2013, Institute of Biomedicine of Valencia - CSIC). From there, his research career has been deepening in the field of rare diseases, from the perspective of oxidative stress and epigenetic alterations. Recently, he has initiated a line of research focused on the molecular alterations resulting from cytotoxicity mediated by circulating histones in the context of sepsis. His teaching career began in 2015 at the European University of Valencia, to finally join the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of the Universitat de València as professor and researcher since 2017. He has three research periods (six-year periods) recognized by the CNEAI and currently directs the line of research in rare childhood epilepsies in the Laboratory of Pathophysiology of Rare Diseases of the Department of Physiology. He is the coordinator of the Consolidated Group for Teaching Innovation in Narrative Physiology (FISIONARR), where he leads teaching innovation projects based on the use of comics and other audiovisual materials as tools to promote learning in health sciences. In recent years he has been doing many scientific outreach activities, writing in his own blog and in other web pages, performing talks and monologues, as well as participating in all kinds of science dissemination events. He is a writer in Principia, collaborator in Mapping Ignorance, and co-creator and scriptwriter of the bio-science fiction comic The OOBIK proteotype, together with the illustrator Gerardo Sanz, as well as the author of three books about epigenetics, and evolution. Since 2022 he has been the Academic Director of Continuing Education at the University of Valencia, coordinating the university's own degrees and continuing education programs in the Vice-Rectorate for Continuing Education, Teaching Transformation and Employment.