Antonio Quesada

Ant-ICON Theme 1 Lead

Antonio Quesada (13/8/1963) is full professor (Catedrático) at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). Defended his Ph.D. Thesis in 1990 and has stayed in posdoctoral placement in 1990 at University of Durham (UK), in 1991-2 and 1993-4 at Université Laval (Canada) and in 1996 at Lake Biwa Research Institute (Japan). In research he has been involved on cyanobacterial and cyanotoxins topics since 1986, and in polar research since 1993. He has participated in over 15 polar expeditions as a researcher. As a result of the research he has published over 170 research papers and books, most of them in international journals and among them in 15 of the top 10 journals of the JCR ranking (including Science, Nature Climate Change, Science Advances, BAMS, etc). His H index is 42 and his papers have been cited over 5600 times. He has participated in over 30 research projects, 11 international and has coordinated 2 European ones. In terms of management he has been the manager of the Scientific Spanish Polar Program from 2013 to 2017, and from 2017 he is the executive director of the Spanish Polar Committee (where the national polar authority resides).

Current research projects / interests:

• polar microbial ecology
• cyanobacterial ecology
• toxicology
• aerobiology
• microbial biogeography