Eva Balsa

Research Deputy Director

IIM-CSIC

Dr Eva Balsa-Canto earned a diploma of Physics at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in 1996 and a PhD from the Chemical Engineering Dept. at the University of Vigo in 2001.

She got a postdoc position at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering and later, at the Applied Mathematics Department II at the University of Vigo. In 2007 she joined the Institute of Marine Research, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, as a Permanent Researcher. There, she is now the Deputy Director for Research and head of the Biosystems and Bioprocess Engineering group.

She has published more than 100 contributions in international journals and book chapters and has been involved in several national and international research projects. Currently, she is coordinating the Atlantic Area funded project SEAFOOD-AGE.