The principal investigator at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, where he leads the Evolutionary Genomics laboratory, professor and ICREA researcher in the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University, the European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA) at the Center for Genomic Regulation, and director of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation and its research center, Arcadi Navarro, has been named a full member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona (RACAB). Navarro, who received medal number 35, is the first expert in data science to join the biology section as a full member.

In his inaugural speech titled “Big Data in Biology, Genomics, Health, and Evolution,” the evolutionary biologist emphasized the work he has done in recent years leading the EGA project and explained that “currently, there is no scientific progress without data sharing. Therefore, in a very rigorous sense, the human future will be shared or it will not be.”

The induction ceremony, held this Thursday evening at the headquarters of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona, located on La Rambla, was attended by the rector of Pompeu Fabra University, Laia de Nadal; the president of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation, Cristina Maragall; former councilors Andreu Mas-Colell and Josep Maria Argimon; and the associate director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Josep Maria Martorell.