Dr. Marc Yeste Oliveras

Numerary Member

Experimental Sciences: Doctor Europaeus cum laude in Cell Biology

Date of admission: 21 December 2023 (Corresponding Member), 22 July 2025 (Numerary Member)

Admission speech: «Influence of maternal age on the functional competence of the oocyte»

Reply by: H.E. Dr. Maria Àngels Calvo Torras, PhD in Veterinary Medicine and PhD in Pharmacy

Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from the University of Girona.
Doctor Europaeus cum laude in Cell Biology.
Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Sociology from the National University of Distance Education (UNED), Extraordinary End-of-Degree Award for the best academic record.

Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Zoology, London.
Juan de la Cierva Researcher in the Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Marie Curie Researcher at the Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford.
Ramón y Cajal Researcher in the Department of Biology at the University of Girona.
Currently, ICREA Academia Researcher and Professor at the Faculties of Medicine and Nursing, University of Girona.
Lecturer in the Master’s in Clinical Embryology at the University of Oxford.
His research focuses on reproductive biology in various mammalian species, including humans.
He has participated in over 100 research projects and contracts with companies, serving as Principal Investigator in more than 40, some funded by the European Commission.
Coordinator of the consolidated UAB-UdG Research Group in Reproductive Biotechnology, Government of Catalonia.
He has supervised 16 PhD theses, 8 postdoctoral researchers and 27 Master’s dissertations.

Editor-in-Chief of Animal Reproduction Science.
Senior Editor of Scientific Reports.
Associate Editor of BMC Biology, Reproduction, Fertility and Development, and Frontiers in Endocrinology.
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, the Royal Society of Biology, and the Young Academy of Europe, where he also serves as Secretary.
He has published more than 240 papers and 17 book chapters.

Joined as a Full Member, July 22, 2025

“Influencia de la edad materna en la competencia funcional del oocito” (Influence of maternal age on the functional competence of the oocyte). Speech on admission to the Royal European Academy of Doctors, as a Numerary Member, at the reception ceremony on July 22, 2025.
“La ciencia de la espermatología: del origen de la disciplina al paradigma actual” (The science of spermatology: from the origins of the discipline to the current paradigm). Speech on admission to the Royal European Academy of Doctors, as a Corresponding Academician, at the reception ceremony on December 21, 2023.