Josefa González

I did a PhD in Biology in Prof. Alfredo Ruiz lab at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). After a first postdoctoral stay at UAB, I moved to Stanford University to work with Prof. Dmitri Petrov. While at Stanford, I was a Fulbright Postdoctoral fellow (2006-2008), and a Research Associate (2008-2011) at the Department of Biology. In 2011, I joined the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) in Barcelona as a Ramon y Cajal fellow. In March 2017, I got a permanent position at CSIC as a Tenured Scientist, and in May 2023 I was promoted to Research Scientist.

Research in my lab focuses on understanding how organisms adapt to natural and urban environments. We combine multiomics approaches with molecular and phenotypic analyses to identify and characterize adaptive mutations, in particular those induced by transposable element insertions. Research in my lab has been funded by a MSCA Career Integration Grant, an ERC Consolidator Grant, and several grants from the Spanish Government.

I am the co-founder and coordinator of the European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium, which brings together over 70 labs from 28 countries, a co-PI in AdaptNET, and a member of TE Hub. I am the current ESEB Vice President and ESEB DEI officer, and an SMBE council member and SMBE IDEA task force member.
I am co-leading a citizen science project, Melanogaster: Catch The Fly!, that involves high-school students and teachers in monitoring the impact of climate change in natural populations of Drosophila.