Alex Aguilar

Alex Aguilar is a Spanish scientist and writer. He was born in Barcelona in 1957 and studied at the University of Barcelona, where he obtained his degree in biology in 1979. His doctoral thesis, defended in 1985, focused on the biology and population dynamics of the fin whale in the waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. He completed postdoctoral stays at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Southwest Fisheries Science Center (NOAA) in La Jolla, California, both in the USA. Subsequently, he obtained a tenured professorship at the University of Barcelona, where he is currently a full professor of Animal Biology. During 2007-2008 he completed a sabbatical course at the Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu (India) and carried out extensive fieldwork in India and Bangladesh. Alongside his teaching and research, he has held several leadership roles at the University of Barcelona, including Vice-Rector for Innovation and Knowledge Transfer (2008–2010), Director of the Institute of Biodiversity Research (IRBio) (2013–2016), and Vice-Rector for Outreach and Internationalization (2016–2020).