Xavier Gomis

Dr. Gomis-Rüth studied organic chemistry at the Chemical Institute of Sarrià (IQS, Barcelona, Spain) and he obtained his B.Sc. (1988) and M.Sc. (1989) there before moving to the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB, Martinsried, Germany), where he made his Ph.D. in protein crystallography in the lab of 1988-Nobel laureate Robert Huber (1992).

Postdoctoral stays at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), the MPIB, and the Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona (IBMB) of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) followed before he got a tenured Assistant Professor position at the latter institution.

Since 2008, he is Research Professor CSIC, Director of the Department of Structural Biology of the IBMB, and Head of the Proteolysis Lab at the IBMB, which is located at the premises of the Barcelona Science Park (PCB).

The Proteolysis Lab currently encompasses nine researchers and is centered on the study of proteins by molecular and structural biology to ascertain structure-function relationships following an experimental approach.