JOSE M. RUBIO

José Miguel Rubio, Senior Scientist, holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the Autonomous University of Madrid (1986) and a PhD in Biological Sciences from the same university (1992).

Dr. Rubio completed his doctoral thesis in the Department of Genetics at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where he served as Associate Professor (1988-1989), and in the Faculty of Biology at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom, where he served as Senior Research Assistant (1989-1992).

During his postdoctoral studies, he obtained a European Commission Fellowship within the Human Capital and Mobility Program, to be developed at the University of La Sapienza in Rome, Italy, and the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in Crete, Greece (1993-1994). He subsequently completed a new WHO-funded and university-funded internship in the Department of Entomology at Wageningen University, the Netherlands (1994-1996).

Since 1997, he has been a member of the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII), where he joined the Department of Parasitology at the National Center for Microbiology as an EU-INCO postdoctoral fellow and subsequently with a grant from the Autonomous Community of Madrid (CAM). He was part of the founding group of the National Center for Tropical Medicine (2003-2006), the 24/7 Alerts and Emergencies Unit (2006-2018), and Head of the Malaria and Emerging Parasitosis Unit at the National Center for Microbiology (2018-2025). He also serves as a researcher at the Biomedical Research Network for Infectious Diseases (CIBERINFEC/ISCIII). He is currently Director of the National Microbiology Center at the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII) (2025-present).

During his scientific career, he has been a Visiting Scientist at the Leonidas and Marie Dean Center (FIOCRUZ-AMAZONAS, Manaus, Brazil) and an External Consultant for the Departments of Parasitology at Cairo University (Egypt) and the Medical Research Center (MRC) in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). He also belongs or has belonged to various national and international committees: Member of the expert group for malaria control of the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) since 2011; Expert Evaluator for the European Commission's health programs since 2004; Spanish Representative (commissioned by the ISCIII and the MSC) on the Scientific Technical Committee of the TDR (WHO) 2007-2008; He was the Spanish Focal Point Associate for Microbiology at the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) from 2012 to 2020; and a member of the ISCIII Research Ethics Committee until 2019.

During this period, he has published more than 100 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, 10 book chapters, and co-edited two books in the areas of malaria, tropical medicine, and neglected diseases. He has participated in 58 competitively funded research projects, 20 of them international, having been the principal investigator in 8 national projects and in 11 international projects as project PI or WP leader. He has also directed five agreements with companies. He currently has five six-year research grants.

In the teaching field, he participates in various postgraduate programs in the areas of microbiology and parasitology, having supervised seven doctoral theses and more than 20 Master's or Bachelor's theses, both nationally and internationally. In addition, she has directed and participated in various courses on Malaria and neglected diseases at the National School of Health (ISCIII) and last year she organized the international course Parasitic Diseases & Malaria: Road Back from Molecular to Microscopy +AI of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) at the Carlos III Health Institute in Majadahonda with 41 students from five continents and 15 internationally renowned professors.