Antonio Martínez-Murcia, Ph.D.

Professor of Microbiology, Miguel Hernández University (since 1993), Orihuela, Alicante. Bachelor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Univ. Valencia 1987. Doctorate in Microbiology, University of Reading, England 1988-1992.

Pioneering early scientific contributions in phylogeny and genetic testing methods of application in prokaryotic systematics. Co-author of more than 100 scientific publications, book chapters, a patented PCR method (1994), co-director of 8 doctoral theses, and the description of 16 new bacterial species. President of “The European Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians” (EAVLD), member of the “Aeromonas Working-group”, of the “International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes”, directive member of AVEDILA (Association of Veterinary Specialists in Laboratory Diagnosis), secretary of the Association of Biotechnology Companies of Alicante (AEBA). A recent study by ELSEVIER and Stanford University has placed him among the top 2% of the most cited researchers in the world in his specialty, from 2021 to the present. Member of Working-group-1 of the European Committee for Standardization CEN/TC 469 and, in Spain, of the Technical Committee for Standardization CTN-UNE 331, for the development of international standards for PCR in veterinary diagnostics. Founder and Director of the GPS® laboratories, Genetic Analysis Strategies SL., providing custom-designed ready-to-use real-time PCR kits (qPCR) applied to veterinary and many other sectors.