Researcher profile

Ivo Gomperts Boneca

Ivo Boneca worked for his Thesis under the supervision of Prof. Alexander Tomasz, at The Rockefeller University, New York, USA, and finished his Ph.D in Biology in 2000. He obtained is Ph.D from the Institut of Technical Chemistry and Biology (ITQB) from the New University of Lisbon (UNL), Portugal. From 2000 to 2004, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institut Pasteur. In 2004, he became an INSERM investigator at the Institut Pasteur. In 2008, Ivo was awarded a junior group and then 2013 a unit at the Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. In 2010, Ivo defended his HDR at the Université Paris Descartes. In 2015, he became INSERM Research Director. He was deputy Director of Department in 2017-2019. Since January 2022, he also directs the INSERM Unit U1306 Host-microbe interaction and pathophysiology. He received in 2002, the Jacques Monod award from the Fondation de France, and in 2003, the Roux fellowship. In 2007, he received the INSERM Avenir 2007 award and a European Research Council starting grant. In 2011, he received the Pasteur Vallery-Radot award from the French Academy of Science and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Since November 2020, he was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the journal Microbial Drug resistance.