Short Bio: Alvaro went to college in Madrid, obtaining an undergraduate degree in theoretical physics. He then moved to the USA, where he did his doctoral and postdoctoral training in Biophysics and Evolutionary Systems Biology at Brandeis and MIT. In 2013 he started his own group as a Rowland Fellow at Harvard. He moved the lab to Yale in 2016 as an Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021. He moved back to Spain in 2022 as a group leader first at CNB-CSIC and then at IBFG. He’s received multiple grants and awards, including an ERC CoG, a Packard Fellowship, an NIH MIRA award and an HFSP grant.