Miguel Angel Castro — President for Internationalization and Cooperation of the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities, Rector of the University of Seville
Education
Miguel A. Castro (1965) is Pharmacist (1988) and PhD in Chemistry by the University of Seville (1992).
Research Scholar at Oxford University. Visiting Fellow at the Department of Chemistry of ten University of Cambridge and Fellow at Churchill College (University of Cambridge).
Awarded with the Young Researchers Prize by the Royal Academy of Sciences of Seville/
Working Experience
Miguel A. Castro has more than 27 years’ experience as a professor and researcher in the area of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Seville.
He was recognized twice with the Award of Teaching Excellence (2002/2003 and 2005/2006).
He has published 63 SCT-articles, including 34 published in the first quartile, with 712 citations and he has supervised 5 PhD students and 3 Master Degree students.
Director of the X-Ray laboratory of the the Centre of Research Technology and Innovation of the University of Seville, (CITIUS) (2005-2008).
Director of the Centre of Research Technology and Innovation of the University of Seville, (CITIUS) (2007-2008).
Responsible since 2008 for the research group FQM-212 of the Andalusian Government.
Dr Castro has expertise of more than 13 years in the Management of Higher Education Institutions, specially concerning Research, Academic Affairs and Strategic Planning and Policies.
Director of the Secretariat for Research Centres, Institutes and Services (2008-2009).
Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs of the University of Seville (2009-2015).
Rector of the University of Seville since January 2016.
