David Rodriguez-Lazaro's Biography

David Rodriguez-Lazaro, Associate Professor, University of Burgos

Dr. David Rodríguez-Lázaro is a Doctor in Veterinary Medicine (DVM), specialised in Food Science (BSc and MSc) and Molecular Microbiology (PhD). He is a senior scientist at ITACyL and an assistant Professor of Microbiology at the University of Burgos. He has performed research stays in the Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research (Denmark), University of Prague (Czech Republic), the Food and Environmental Research Agency (UK), and the University of Bristol (UK). He was a Leverhulme visiting Professor in the Institute of Advanced Sciences in the University of Bristol during the years 2004 and 2005 and Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medical and Veterinary Sciences in the University of Bristol (UK) until 2.007. He has published more than 80 international scientific papers and book or book chapters regarding to Food Safety. He is currently member of the editorial board of “Applied and Environmental Microbiology”, “International Journal of Food Microbiology”, “Food and Environmental Virology” and “International Journal of Food Contamination” and the editor-in-chief of the Journal “Food Analytical Methods”. Recently he was awarded with the “XV Jaime Ferrán Award” by the Spanish Society for Microbiology for his understanding promising scientific career in Microbiology.