Jesús Jiménez Barbero (born 1960, in

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

) is a Spanish scientist who has contributed to the advance of glycoscience by unraveling the conformational properties of

carbohydrate A carbohydrate () is a biomolecule composed of carbon (C), hydrogen (H), and oxygen (O) atoms. The typical hydrogen-to-oxygen atomic ratio is 2:1, analogous to that of water, and is represented by the empirical formula (where ''m'' and ''n'' ...

s and analogues and the molecular basis of their interactions with proteins, using a multidisciplinary approach that employs

carbohydrate synthesis Carbohydrate synthesis is a sub-field of organic chemistry concerned with generating complex carbohydrate structures from simple units (monosaccharides). The generation of carbohydrate structures usually involves linking monosaccharides or oligos ...

molecular biology Molecular biology is a branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecule, molecular basis of biological activity in and between Cell (biology), cells, including biomolecule, biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactio ...

molecular modelling Molecular modelling encompasses all methods, theoretical and computational, used to model or mimic the behaviour of molecules. The methods are used in the fields of computational chemistry, drug design, computational biology and materials scien ...

and

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a physical phenomenon in which nuclei in a strong constant magnetic field are disturbed by a weak oscillating magnetic field (in the near field) and respond by producing an electromagnetic signal with a ...

(NMR) spectroscopy.

Academic career

He studied

chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid where he obtained his PhD in 1987. He continued post-doctoral research at

National Institute for Medical Research The National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), was a medical research institute based in Mill Hill, on the outskirts of north London, England. It was funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC); In 2016, the NIMR became part of the new F ...

Mill Hill Mill Hill is a suburb in the London Borough of Barnet, England. It is situated around northwest of Charing Cross, close to the Hertfordshire border. It was in the Historic counties of England, historic county of Middlesex until 1965, when it b ...

. From 1990 to 1992, he was visiting scientist at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...

(

Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the List of Un ...

, USA). He returned to Spain, rising to Senior Research Scientist of CSIC at the Institute of Organic Chemistry (1996) and Research Professor of CSIC at the Centre for Biological Research (CIB-CSIC) (2002) where he was the head of the Chemical and Physical Biology Department. He moved to CIC bioGUNE at Bilbao in 2014, as Ikerbasque Professor and Scientific Director. He currently holds an ERC Advanced Grant (RecglycanNMR, 2018-2024)

Positions

* Secretary General of Royal Society of Chemistry of Spain (RSEQ) between 2004 and 2012. * President of RSEQ between 2012 and 2018. * Member of the editorial boards of: ** Chem. Eur. J. (2001-2021) ** Carbohydr. Res.(2001-2021) ** J. Carbohydr. Chem. (2002-2020) ** Org. Biomol. Chem. (2007–2008) ** Glycoconj. J.(2008-2010) ** Eur. J. Org. Chem. (2009-2016) ** ChemBioChem (2011-) ** ChemMedChem (2013-) ** Adv Carbohydr Chem Biochem (2013-2016) ** ACS Chem Biol (2016-) ** ACS Omega (2017-) * Member of the European Academy of Sciences (2017) * ChemPubSoc Fellow (2015) * Head of the Basic Chemistry (BQU) Programme of the National Plan for Research of Spain between 2008 and 2018.

Awards

* In 2003 Janssen-Cilag Prize in Organic Chemistry of RSEQ * In 2008 Prize of the NMR group of RSEQ. * In 2010 Roy L. Whistler International Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry * In 2017 Gamboa Winkler Award from the Hungarian Chemical Society * In 2018 Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry of Spain * In 2023, National Prize of Research in Chemical Science and Technology.

Publications

Publications
* * He is co-author of more than 650 publications in international journals * He has delivered more than 300 lectures at symposia and institutions * He has tutored more than 37 PhD Theses and supervised more than 50 postdoctoral associates

References

External links

CIB

RSEQ

CIC bioGUNE
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