Guillermo Montoya

Guillermo Montoya

Professor, head of research, Professor

Guillermo Montoya

Current position

Jan. 2014–:

Professor and research director, Protein Structure & Function Program, CPR, University of Copenhagen, Denmark


Previous positions

2008–2015:

Group leader, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

2003–2006:

Acting director, Structural Biology Program, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

2000–2002:

Research associate, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Germany

1994–1999:

EMBO & Marie Curie fellow, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

1998:

Investigator, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), on leave at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

1993–1994:

EMBO & FEBS fellow, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

 

Education

1989–1993:

PhD in Chemistry, University of Zaragoza, Spain.
Thesis title: Characterization of sugar beet photosystem II reaction center using LASER picosecond flash photolysis spectroscopy

1984–1989:

MSc in Biochemistry, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain

 

Research awards

2018:

Elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

2016–:

Chairman of ISBUC, the Integrative Structural Biology Cluster at UCPH

2009:

Spanish National Prize in Biomedicine from the Fundación Mutua Madrileña

V Health Sciences Prize from Caja Rural de Granada-Ministerio de Sanidad

Mar. 2000:

Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Foundation Fellowship

Mar. 1997:

Postdoctoral fellowship of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science

Feb. 1995:

Marie Curie Fellowship of Human Capital and Mobility Program of the European commission

1994:

EMBO long-term fellowship, funded directly for 2 years due to being placed second in the Feb. 1994 evaluation

1993:

EMBO short-term fellowship, Frankfurt am Main

1993:

FEBS short-term fellowship, Frankfurt am Main

Spanish National Prize in Biomedicine from the Fundación Mutua Madrileña

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