Julia Fernandez-Rodriguez

Head of the National Centre for Cellular Imaging, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and President of the Core Technologies for Life Sciences Association (CTLS). Graduated (1989) in Biology from the University Santiago de Compostela (Spain), and received her PhD (1996) in Biochemistry from the University of Vigo (Spain). She has a background in Cell and Molecular Biology, and since 2003 is the main responsible of the Centre for Cellular Imaging, an open-access Correlated Multimodal Imaging Facility, that provides technical and scientific excellence by the integration of multiple imaging technologies together with image processing and analysis tools in a single core. Her main interest is to provide expertise in microscopy workflows, from experimental design to image acquisition and analysis, tailored to various research domains within the Life Sciences. Thus, in 2016 She was selected and awarded, by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, with one of the 15 Research Infrastructure Fellows grant in Sweden. The objective of this program was to promote a key person committed to research infrastructures. This person has to be essential to the operation and methodological development of the infrastructure, but also to the training and supervision of the users. The call was thus typically aimed at scientist who have chosen, as me, another career path than the classic academic tenure track. She has more than 20 years of experience in organization, implementation and management of core facilities and training activities at the National and International level. She is the co-Director of the Swedish National Microscopy Infrastructure, member of the Board of the Nordic Microscopy Society (SCANDEM) and the Bridging Nordic Microscopy Infrastructure. On the European landscape, she is also well connected to several other European facilities, through the European Light Microscopy Initiative, ELMI (member of the Steering committee), and with the Euro-BioImaging ERIC consortium (Vice-Chair of the Panels of Nodes). She is also heavily involved in the design of a training programme to fulfil the competency requirements for the current and future managers of European Research Infrastructures and Core Facilities, through the European project: Research Infrastructure Training Plus (RItrainPlus).