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Head of Communications and Public Relations

IBEC seeks a Head of Communications and Public Relations. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing and executing an overall strategy to enhance and project IBEC’s international reputation as a world-class center of excellence in bioengineering, advanced training, innovation and public engagement.

The Head of Communications and PR runs a team of 3 people and reports to the Managing Director and is part of the Institute’s senior management team.

The successful candidate will provide leadership to the areas of:
• Communications and public relations
• Engagement and science education
• Alumni relations
• Fundraising

Two more juniors consolidate as full group leaders

Lorenzo Albertazzi and Nuria Montserrat, IBEC’s Junior Group Leaders selected in the 2014 Tenure Track programme, have been successfully consolidated as Group Leader as of 1st January 2019, following a positive evaluation by the ISC.

IBEC’s tenure track programme aims to support career development by helping young researchers establish their own independent research lines. Other factors considered included the added value offered by their projects to the current IBEC research programme, and the ability of the selected candidates to carry out efficient group leadership and management.

The first four junior group leaders selected by the programme in 2012 – Eduard Torrents, Elisabeth Engel, Pere Roca-Cusachs and Xavier Fernández-Busquets – were all successfully consolidated as Senior Group Leaders as of 1st January 2017.