David Comas Martínez

David Comas is a professor of Biological Anthropology at the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences (MELIS-UPF). Graduated (1992) and PhD in Biology from the University of Barcelona, ​​where he received the UB Doctoral Faculty award for the best thesis defended in 1997.

He has done doctoral and postdoctoral stays at the Zoologisches Institut (LMU, Munich, under the supervision of the recent Nobel laureate Svante Pääbo), at the Anthony Nolan Trust - Royal Free Hospital (London) and at the Department of Forensic Medicine in Helsinki. He obtained a Ramón y Cajal” position in 2001, which he developed at MELIS-UPF, where he established his research group focused on the study of the diversity of the genome of human populations. Distinguished with the ICREA Acadèmia mention (calls 2011 and 2016), his lines of research have focused on the analysis of human genomic diversity in order to establish the genomic and population processes that have generated this diversity, and try to infer the consequences of these differences.

Before assuming the direction of the Doctorate School, he held several management positions at the University: coordinator of the Biomedicine Doctorate Program (2007-2016) and deputy director of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE, UPF-CSIC ).

He was appointed by the rector on March 6, 2023.