EURAB 2 Curriculum Vitae

Professor Enric BANDA

Born in Girona (Spain) in 1948. Currently Director of the Catalan Research and Innovation Foundation in Barcelona.

Research Professor of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC (1987) and Director of its Earth Sciences Institute in Barcelona in 1988; General Secretary of the National R+D Plan (1994); Secretary of State for Universities and Research (1995-96); Secretary General of the European Science Foundation (1998-2003).

Participated in several working groups, commissions and expert meetings of the European Community and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. Has been Vice-President of the European Geophysical Society, elected member of the Academia Europaea (1992), member of numerous scientific societies and editorial boards of different science journals. Has been editor-in-chief of Tectonophycics and European Editor of Geophysical Research Letters (American Geophysical Union). Associate member of Royal Astronomical society.

Research work as a geophysicist focused on structure and evolution of earth’s lithosphere in subjects related to both basic and applied research. Author of more than 160 scientific papers.