José Manuel Martínez Costas

Jose M. Martinez Costas holds a degree in Biology from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). He did his doctoral thesis at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Santiago under the supervision of Professor Javier Benavente.

In January 1994 began a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford (UK) in the laboratory of Dr. Polly Roy, where he worked with Bluetongue Virus (BTV). In September 1996 he was awarded a “Contrato de Reincorporación de Doctores y Tecnólogos del Ministerio de Educación” to return to the University of Santiago. In 2003 became Associate Professor and in 2021 full Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at USC.