Ricardo Amils#
| Membership Number: | 4399 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 - present Interdisciplinary Scientist of the Mars Express Mission
- 1994 - present Full Professor of Microbiology, Departamento de Biología Molecular, Centro de Biología Molecular (UAM-CSIC)
- 1998 - present) Senior Scientists associated to the Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC)
- 2011-2013) Member of the Solar System Exploration Working Group of the European Space Agency
- 2006) Group Achievement NASA Award for its participation in the Mars Analog Research and Technology Experiment
- 1987 - 1994) Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- 1979 - 1993) Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Departamento de Biología Molecular, U. Autónoma de Madrid
- 1977 - 1979) Colaborador Científico at the Centro de Biología Molecular (UAM-CSIC)
- 1975 - 1976) Research Associate in the Chemistry Department at Columbia University, N.Y., USA
- 1973 - 1975) Research Associate in the Biochemistry Department at Dartmouth Medical School, N.H, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Functional evolution of ribosomes
- Total reconstitution of ribosomes
- Biomining
- Bioremediation
- Specific metal sequestering
- Microbial ecology of extreme environments
- Molecular biology of extremophiles
- Astrobiology
Honours and Awards
- 2007 Group Achievement NASA Award for its participation in the Mars Analog Research and Technology Experiment Project (2006), Torre de Nerva
- 1993 - 1996 Grantee European Commission
- 1983 Fellow European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1973 Recipient Antibiotic award Compania Espanola de Penicilina
