Fitxa persona

OTHER RESARCH MERITS - I. ENVIROMENTAL SCIENCE DAYS. Member of the Organizing Committee Miembro of the 5 'Jornades d'Estudi de la Serra Calderona', held between 1991 and 1997, and the 'Primera Jornada de Sostenibilitat al Camp de Túria' held in 2002. SICENTIFIC SOCIETIES. Member of 6 national scientific societies and 2 international scientific societies (American Society of Parasitologists -ASP, member of the Membership Committee from 2008 to 2012; International Association of Wildland Fire). OTHER STAYS AT RESEARCH CENTRES. 1) Three-week postdoctoral stay (March 1997) at Instituto Nacional de Laboratorios de Salud (INLASA), La Paz, Bolivia. 2) One-week stay (April 2001) at School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. 3) Three-week stay (June 2001) at Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University, Iran. 4) Two-week stay (September 2001, February 2004, May 2007, November 2009, February 2012) at Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela. 5) One-week stay (February 2002) at CIMPAT, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. 6) Two-week stay (February 2002) at Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de San Francisco Javier de Quito, Ecuador. 7) One-week stay (March 2006) at Universidad Católica de Salta, Argentina. GRANTS AND FUNDING. 1) 5 Grants to attend scientific congresses awarded by Generalitat Valenciana. 2) funding awarded by Universitat de València for short stays at foreign research centres: a) Centre d'Ecologie Méditerranéenne at Observatoire Océanologique of Banyuls-sur-Mer at Laboratoire Arago (Université Paris VI), Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, b) Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge-Louisiana, USA (on two occasions). ADDITIONAL COURSES. 1) Summer course of Universidad Internacional Menendez y Pelayo, Santander: 'Introduction to food and nutrition of Spaniards', Santander, 1986. 2) Summer course at Universidad de Alcalá de Henares: 'Parasitic anthropozoonosis: parasitism and parasitoses shared by humans and animals', Sigüenza (Guadalajara), 1988. 3) 'Cours Multidisciplinaire Europeen de Biologie Evolutive', Programme Erasmus, Troisième Cycle du Réseau Universitaire Européen' Université P. et M. Curie - Paris VI, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, 1990. 4) Postgraduate certificate of Universitat de València in 'Geografic Information Systems applied to the analysis and management of natural resources', València, 2008..

OTHER RESEARCH MERITS - II - REFEREE. Referee of indexed journals: Acta Tropica; American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Higiene; Ecological Monographs; Ecology Letters; European Journal of Wildlife Research; Foodborne Pathogens and Diseases; Geospatial Health; Helminthologia; Journal of Helminthology; Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom; Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases; Medical Hypotheses; Parasites and Vectors; Revista Española de Salud Pública; Trends in Parasitology; Turkish Journal of Zoology; Zoonoses and Public Health Referee of non-indexed journals: African Journal of Biotechnology; Asian Journal of Agriculture and Biology; Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española; Case Reports in Pathology; CEDAMAZ - Revista de la Universidad Nacional de Loja, Ecuador; Galemys - Spanish Journal of Mammalogy; International Journal of Pathology and Clinical Research; International Medical Case Reports Journal; Journal of Immunology and Infectious Diseases; Journal of Parasitology and Vector Biology; Journal of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Health; Neotropical Helminthology; Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences; Parasitaria; Revista de la Facultad de Farmacia de la Universidad de Los Andes; Revista Iberolatinoamericana de Parasitología.

OTHER TEACHING MERITS. TEACHING. 1) In charge of imparting the subject 'Food Parasitology' (Parasitological Hygiene) since the introduction of the Food Science and Technology Degree at Faculty of Pharmacy in 1994. 2) In charge of various subjects imparted since 1992 in: a) International Master Course on Tropical Parasitic Diseases; b) Doctorate Course of Human and Animal Parasitology; c) subjects of Parasitology, Parasitological Analyses and Clinical Parasitology of the Degree in Pharmacy. 3) In charge of the Postgraduate Course 'Food Parasitology' at Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela, in 2001, 2004, 2007, 2009 and 2012. 4) Participation in the 6th and 9th Course on Tropical and Travel Diseases at Hospital Carlos III, Madrid, in November 2001 and October 2004. 5) Participation in the course 'Update on Intestinal Parasites' of MICOF Valencia' with the presentation of 'Protozoosis by Intestinal Flagelates and Ciliates' in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012. 6) Teaching the course 'Food Parasitology' 20 theoretical-practical hours at Hospital San Bernardo, Universidad Católica de Salta, Argentina, in 2006. 7) 4-hour teaching of the subjects 'Parasitic Epidemiology' and 'Food Parasites' in the course of 'Parasitic Zoonoses in Public Health' at Escola Valenciana d'Estudis de la Salut in 2015 and 2016. SEMINARS AND LECTURES IMPARTED. 1) Imparting two seminars at Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology of LSU, USA, in 1998: a) Human and Animal Fascioliasis in the Northern Bolivian Altiplano; b) Satellite data and snail-borne disease in the Andes. 2) Imparting the seminar 'GIS and snail-borne diseases' at Faculty of Medicine of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran in June 2001. 3) Imparting the seminar 'Utility of Satellite Teledetection and GIS in Epidemiology and Control of Human Parasitic Diseases' at CIMPAT of Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia in February 2002. 5) Imparting the course 'Food Parasites' at Universitat Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona in May 2005. 6) Imparting the pre-congress course 'Food Parasitoses' at IX Congreso Latinoamericano de Microbiología e Higiene de los Alimentos, Isla Margarita, Venezuela, in May 2007. 7) Imparting the lecture 'Food Parasites: small and unknown but painful' at the 9th to 15th Science Week, organized by Universitat de València and CSIC, in 8 secondary schools from November 2007 to 2013. 8) Imparting the lecture 'The Phenomena of Parasitism: the adaptative success between beings and hostile environments' in the 'IX Jornadas de Actualización Científica para el profesorado de Biología y Geología 'Hábitats Extremos: Laboratorios de la Evolución', in Aula CAM of València, in October 2009. 9) Imparting the Lecture 'Food Parasites: small and unknown but painful', Course Unisocietat in Quart de Poblet-, 2016; Massamagrell-Universitat de València and Benetusser-Universitat de València, 2018. 10) Participating in 12 Environmental Days/Round Tables held between 1992 and 2014..

SCIENTIFIC GROUPS. - Founding member and representative of Universitat de València of the GNOSIS GIS research group (GIS Network of Snail-borne Infections with special reference to Schistosomiasis), since 2000. - Member of the Parasitology and Health research group of Universitat de València since its establishment in 2017..

RESEARCH HISTORY. Beginning of my research activity at the end of 1986 when joining the Parasitology Department of Universitat de València to write my Degree Thesis (1988) and thereafter my Doctoral Thesis (1992) in the research line 'Ecology of helminths of small mammals in insular conditions' In 1992, I obtained my first contract as part-time Associate Lecturer (April-June), and as Assistant Lecturer (October 1992-September 1997). During that period I initiated the research line 'Helminths parasites of small mammals as biological tags of the post-fire regeneration process.' Also, I accomplished a scientific stay at Centre d'Ecologie Méditerranéenne, Observatoire Océanologique, Banyuls-sur-Mer, Laboratoire Argo (Université Paris VI), France, from July to September 1996. In 1997 I obtained the post of full-time Associate Lecturer (October 1997-November 2000). During this period I accomplished a scientific stay as Visiting Associate Lecturer at School of Veterinary Medicine (Lousiana State University), initiating the research line 'Application of Geographic Information Systems to the Epidemiology of Vector-borne Parasitic Diseases.' In November 2000 I obtained the post of Senior Lecturer and I initiated other research lines: 'Epidemiology of Food-borne Parasites' and 'Epidemiology of Parasitic Diseases Transmitted by Arthropods, and I obtained three R+D projects as Researcher-in-Chief. Between 1997 and 2011, I carried out further scientific stays in the USA, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina and Iran. My teaching task, since 1992, has covered various subjects of Parasitology in Degree as well as Post-Degree (master and doctorate) studies, at Univeristat de València and Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela (Post-Degree). I have supervised 5 Doctoral Theses related to various of the described research lines, as well as 18 Degree Theses/Research Theses and 16 Master Theses. I have occupied several academic management posts: Secretary (June1999-November 2005) and Vice Dean (November 2005-October 2006) of Faculty of Pharmacy; Director of Health and Safety at Work and Sustainability, Secretary of the Ethics in Experimental Research Commission, and President of the Ethics in Human Research Committee of Universitat de València (October 2006-October 2014). I have participated in 17 R+D projects as researcher (in 3 of which as researcher-in-chief); in more than 60 scientific congresses, with more than 160 presentations (invited speeches, oral communications and posters). I have participated as referee of indexed journals of Parasitology, Tropical Medicine and Public Health; and in the Editorial Committee of new journals, some of them already indexed. I have been author/co-author of more than 100 publications, mainly in scientific journals, more than half of them indexed, and some book chapters..