The IIQ researcher and professor at the University of Seville, Miguel Ángel de la Rosa Acosta, has been elected president of the Royal Seville Academy of Sciences (RASC).

The new governing board will be made up of the professors from the Seville University, Rosario Fernández Fernández as vice-president, Antonio Gómez Expósito as treasurer, Javier Fernández Sanz as librarian and Enrique Fernández Cara as secretary.

Professor De la Rosa develops his work in the Biointeractomics group at the IIQ, in cicCartuja, a centre of which he has been director for nine years. He is a member of the Academia Europaea (MAE, London), as well as a Member and Medal of Honour of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He is currently Secretary General of the European Federation of Societies of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, being the first Spanish researcher to preside over this non-profit organisation, which represents some 40,000 scientists from 39 countries.

After this appointment by the RASC. The new president states that “RASC seeks to give a voice to science in the academic and social environment, among young university students and the general public. The pandemic, for example, has made science reach a prominent position in the consideration of citizens, who have realized how crucial scientific research is for their health and well-being, for the sustainability of the planet and for global progress.”