DR. Albert Bosch Navarro

Albert Bosch is Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at the University of Barcelona and has led the Enteric Virus Group of this University for more than 40 years. He directs the Virus Analysis Service in the Food Chain and Water Cycle (SAVCA) at the Food Campus of Torribera of the University of Barcelona.

He was President of the Spanish Society of Virology from 2013 to 2024, and President of the International Society for Food and Environmental Virology. He is a full member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors and a Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Pharmacy of Catalonia.

Professor Bosch has carried out his research in foreign institutions, such as the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, the Universities of North Carolina and Arizona in the United States, the University of Pretoria in South Africa, and the Institute of Child Health in London. He has published more than 200 articles in internationally recognized journals indexed in the JCR and several books on environmental and food virology, as well as on clinical and molecular aspects of enteric viruses (h-index: 68, Google Scholar, Dec. 2024). He holds 2 PCT patents under exploitation and another one pending.

The Enteric Virus Laboratory was the first university laboratory in Spain to receive the certification of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) compliance and is currently undergoing Accreditation by ENAC according to the UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025 standard.

The number of six-year research periods positively evaluated as of 12-31-2017 is 7 (6 recognized due to resignation for administrative and economic reasons from a six-year period obtained as Associate Professor).

He is Editor-in-Chief of Food and Environmental Virology, Associate Editor of Journal of Applied Microbiology, and Editor of Viruses.

He has been included in the 2% of the world’s most recognized scientists within his specialty for his career, considering productivity and citation indicators (PLOS Biology, 2021, Stanford Ranking, 2023).

He coordinates the VATar (Surveillance and Early Warning in Wastewater for COVID-19) and HEBAR (Epidemiological Tool Based on Wastewater Surveillance) projects of the Ministries of Health and the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenges and Health, respectively, and also participates in the SARSAIGÜES program of the Government of Catalonia and in the epidemiological surveillance of viruses in wastewater for the Government of Andorra. He is a member of the COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Committee and a member of the Epidemiological Intelligence Network of the Government of Catalonia.

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