Numerary Member
Experimental Sciences: PhD in Biology
Date of admission: 6 November 2000
Medal: No. 92
Admission speech: “Virus, enteric viruses, hepatitis A virus”
Reply speech: H.E. Dr. Pere Costa Batllori, PhD in Veterinary Medicine
Distinguished career: President of the Spanish Society for Virology, an international reference in the study of enteric and environmental viruses. His research has been essential for the epidemiological surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater and the control of infectious diseases.
Dr. ALBERT BOSCH NAVARRO
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at the University of Barcelona.
- He has led the Enteric Virus Group at the University of Barcelona for more than 40 years.
- Director of the Service for Virus Analysis in the Food Chain and Water Cycle (SAVCA) at the Food and Nutrition Campus of Torribera.
- He has carried out research stays at international institutions such as the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (New York), the universities of North Carolina and Arizona (USA), the University of Pretoria (South Africa), and the Institute of Child Health (London).
- Numerary Member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors (RAED) and Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Pharmacy of Catalonia.
- President of the Spanish Society for Virology (2013–2024).
- President of the International Society for Food and Environmental Virology.
- Included among the 2% most cited scientists worldwide according to PLOS Biology (2021) and the Stanford Ranking (2023).
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee on COVID-19 and the Epidemiological Intelligence Network of the Government of Catalonia.
- Principal investigator of projects such as VATar (Wastewater Surveillance of COVID-19) and HEBAR, funded by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry for Ecological Transition, as well as the SARSAIGÜES program (Government of Catalonia) and epidemiological surveillance in Andorra.
- Holds two active PCT patents and one pending.
- Recognised with seven research evaluation periods (sexenios).
PUBLICATIONS
- Author of over 200 papers in indexed international journals and several books on environmental and food virology (h-index: 68, Google Scholar, Dec. 2024).
- Editor-in-Chief of Food and Environmental Virology, Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Microbiology, and Editor of Viruses.