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Francisco Pérez Sánchez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Functional Biology (Cell Biology area) at the Universitat de València (UV). He holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the UV and completed his PhD thesis in the Department of Animal Biology, where he obtained his doctoral degree in 1995.

During his predoctoral period and first postdoctoral stage (1990–1997), he specialized in the field of Reproductive Biology, focusing his research on the morphological remodeling of spermatozoa and their motility patterns in various animal species during epididymal maturation, as well as on the evaluation of the effects of magnetic fields on sperm cells. He carried out several research stays in the laboratory of Dr. Trevor G. Cooper at the Institute of Reproductive Medicine of the University of Münster, part of the University of Münster (Germany), within the network of institutes of the Max Planck Society, where he also participated in research projects in Andrology and human reproductive health. He taught courses first as a predoctoral fellow and later as an adjunct professor in Animal Biology, Animal Physiology, Advanced Animal Physiology (Reproductive Biology), Physical Anthropology, Image Analysis in Biology, Microscopy Techniques, and Behavioral Biology within the Bachelor’s Degree in Biological Sciences.

In 1998 he joined the Department of Cell Biology and Parasitology of the UV as Assistant Lecturer, redirecting his research activity toward Neuroscience and founding, together with Dr. Isabel Fariñas and Dr. Martina Kirstein, the Molecular Neurobiology group (NEUROMOL; GIUV2017-370). Since then, his research has focused on studying the role of alpha-synuclein, a synaptic protein, and aging in animal models of Parkinson’s disease, as well as on the biology of the neurogenic niche of neural stem cells in the adult brain. His research group belongs to the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine and is recognized as a Prometeo excellence research group of the Valencian Community.

Since 1998, his teaching activity has been mainly focused on the Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, where he has served as a member of the Academic Coordination Committee and the Bachelor’s Thesis Committee, tutor of External Internships, and course coordinator, teaching the subjects Cell Organization, Functional Histology, and Cell Analysis Techniques. He has also been a lecturer in the Master’s Degree in Basic and Applied Neuroscience and the Master’s Degree in R&D in Biotechnology and Biomedicine.

Since 2012 he has served as Vice-Dean for Infrastructure of the Faculty of Biological Sciences of the Universitat de València.