Arcadi Navarro is Professor of Genetics and ICREA research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF, in Barcelona, see http://www.upf.edu). Also, he is the Director of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation (FPM, https://fpmaragall.org/) and of its research centre, the Barcelonaeta Brain Research Centre (BBRC, https://www.barcelonabeta.org/), both devoted to the fight against Alzheimer’s Disease and other age-associated neurodegenerative disease. Finally, he co-directs the European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA, https://ega-archive.org/) in a collaboration between the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). Nowadays, the EGA is one of the crucial world-wide steward and distributor of Medical Genomics data.

He has served science in different positions. Of late, he was Secretary for Universities and Research in the Catalonian Government between 2016 and 2018. In addition, he was Vice-director of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE, https://www.ibe.upf-csic.es/) from its foundation in 2008 and until 2013. Between 2013 and 2016, he was director of the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences of the UPF. In addition, he was director of the Population Genomics Node of the Spanish National Institute of Bioinformatics (INB) between 2008 and 2020.

As to science and teaching, he started his PhD in 1992 and, after leaving academia for a few years, returned to basic research in 1999 as a postdoc at Edinburgh University. He joined UPF in 2002, where he leads a research group on comparative genomics and evolutionary medicine, areas in which he has more than 200 publications, mostly using computational approaches and covering issues that range from chromosomal speciation or biodiversity to the biological roots of senescence, the impact of viruses on neurodegenerative diease or how to better predict phenotypes from genomic data.