About me:

Alberto is the Research Centre Manager for the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology. Alberto’s scientific background is in fungal cell biology. ln 2014, he moved into Research Project Management where he has project managed large EU funded projects as well as UKRI funded programmes, before joining the MRC CMM in September 2019.

Prior to this, Alberto carried out his PhD in the field of postharvest fungal infections and the development of new biotechnological methods for decay control based on synthetic rationally designed Antimicrobial Peptides, at the IATA-CSIC in Valencia, Spain. He then undertook his postdoctoral research at two leading UK laboratories in the field of mycology: the Fungal Cell Group at The University of Edinburgh and the Manchester Fungal Infection Group (MFIG) at The University of Manchester, carrying out research in two different projects: the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘Calcium signalling and homeostasis in the human pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus to provide new targets for antifungal therapy’; and on his postdoctoral fellowship project ‘Live-cell imaging and mode-of-action of the next generation of small, synthetic antimicrobial peptides as novel antifungal therapeutics’.

Qualifications:

BSc, PhD

Career:

Sept 2019 - Present: Research Centre Manager at MRC Centre for Medical Mycology, University of Exeter

2016-2019: Project Manager at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), University of Leeds, based at the Met Office Hadley Centre

2013-2015: Project Manager and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Manchester Fungal Infection Group (MFIG), University of Manchester

2009-2013: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Fungal Cell Biology Group, University of Edinburgh

2004-2008: PhD student at the Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos (IATA), CSIC