Jonathan
Barroso González

EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS: 2024-Present: Ramon y Cajal fellow. Telomere maintenance and stability group. University of La Laguna (ULL). Spain. 2021-2024: Postdoctoral research assistant. Topology and DNA Breaks group. Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO). Spain. 2015-2020: Post-doctoral associate. Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology. School of Medicine. The University of Pittsburgh. USA. 2012-2015: Post-doctoral associate. Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. School of Medicine. The University of Pittsburgh. USA. 2007-2012: Graduate student. Ph.D. Summa Cum laude with distinction in Biomedicine. Department of Physical Medicine and Pharmacology. School of Medicine. University of La Laguna (ULL). Spain. RESEARCH QUALITY INDICATORS: - 19 articles published in JCR-indexed journals. 17 out of 19 articles in the first quartile (Q1) of their area. 8 peer-reviewed articles as the first author, 1 first author’s review, and 1 first author’s view. Cumulative impact factor of 181.394: Molecular Cell (IFs 16 and 15.584), Cell Reports (IFs 9.423, 8.282, and 8.358), Cell Death and Differentiation (IF 8.3), Science (IF 45.8), Nature Structural and Molecular Biology (IF 11.98), Nucleic Acid Research (IF 11.147), Retrovirology (IFs 5.236 and 4.767), Molecular Biology of the Cell (IF 5.861), Journal of Biological Chemistry (IF 5.328 both), Journal of Immunology (IF 6), Journal of Cell Science (IF 6.144), Frontiers in Microbiology (IF 4.076), Communicative & Integrative Biology (IF 2.310), Molecular and Cellular Oncology (IF 1.47). From 19 articles, my H-index is 17 with a total of 1127 citations. - Principal investigator in 3 project, and researcher in over 10 funded research projects about HIV-1 infection, DNA damage response, and telomere maintenance in Spain and USA. - Awarded in 2020 with a competitive fellowship for post-docs trained in the UK/USA from Banco Santander. Awarded in 2021 with the competitive grant "AECC Investigador 2022". Awarded in late 2023 the research fellowship “Ramon y Cajal 2022” to support my independent research work at ULL started in late 2024. Awarded in late 2024 with a competitive “Plan de Generacion de Conocimiento 2023” research grant to study telomere biology within my own group at ULL. - 40 contributions to national and international meetings (26 posters and 14 oral contributions), including the best poster prize in the 4th Regional Translational Research in Mitochondria, Aging, and Disease Symposium in 2014 (Pittsburgh, USA). - Mentored high school, college and Ph.D. students at the University of Pittsburgh (USA). Ongoing co-director of Alba de Haro Hernando’s Ph.D. thesis at CNIO, and ongoing director of Maria Marco Simancas’s Ph.D. thesis at ULL. - Organizer of two conference events at the University of Pittsburgh: The “Julius Youngner Lecture series” and the “Bridgeside Research Forum”.Participation in Dissemination Activities at ULL (“Doble Hélice 3.0” program, ITB YouTube channel, and ULL news portal). - Predoctoral stays: the Immunology Service at the University Hospital “La Princesa” (Madrid); the Immuno-Molecular Biology Service at the University Hospital “Gregorio Marañón” (Madrid); the Retrovirology unit at the University Hospital “Germans Trias I Pujol” (Badalona). - External Evaluator of an International Ph.D. thesis at ULL. Evaluator of Ph.D. and BSc thesis at ULL. Expert evaluator for “Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)”.