Joxe Iñaki Alava, PhD

Dr. .J. Iñaki Alava (M) – Born in Caracas (Venezuela) (1960). He obtained his first degree in Chemistry (MSc) at the University of Basque Country (Spain) in 1981. He moved in 1982 to the Research & Development at the Ramon y Cajal Hospital (Madrid -Spain), performing toxicology research granted by the Spanish Research Council. During the period of 1983 to 1986, he worked in the pharmaceutical company ALTER as a research scientist, participating in the development of new pharmaceutical products. He continued research at the Cell Culture Unit in the Haematology Dpto., in the Ramon y Cajal Hospital (Madrid - Spain) for a period of 3 years .He obtained a doctorate (PhD) in Biochemistry by the University of Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) in 1989. During the period from 1988 to 1991 he was Technical manager of the consultant Company SEIC. Since 1991, Dr. Alava is a member of the research staff of Health Unit, at Inasmet first and Tecnalia Research Co. until 2010. As part of the research staff, has participated and led a relevant number of international projects in Biomaterials and Foods fields and is author of more than 45 scientific papers, 19 patents and member of many scientific societies. Then pass to manage the research area of Basque Culinary Center (Faculty of Mondragon University) and now work, as Professor of Culinary Sciences in the same Faculty.