This page contains the curriculum vitæ of Athel Cornish-Bowden.
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Date of birth: 3 April 1943
Place of birth: Ashburton, Devon, England
Sex: male
Marital status: Married to Dr María Luz Cárdenas, three daughters
Nationality: British
Undergraduate: Open Major Scholar of Wadham College, University of Oxford; 1961–1965
Graduate: Dyson Perrins Laboratory, University of Oxford (Research project: Studies of Pepsin Catalysis; supervisor: Dr J. R. Knowles); 1965–1967
Hermann Niemeyer Professor, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 1992 (first holder of the Chair) and 1993.
2003. Elected corresponding member of the Academia Chilena de Ciencias.
2005. Elected Honorary Professor, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
1967–1970
Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry (now part of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), University of California, Berkeley, USA; research on the structure of proteins with Dr Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.
1970–1985
Lecturer in Biochemistry at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
1985–1986
Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
1987–2009
Directeur de Recherche (1ère classe), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marseilles, France
2009–present
Directeur de Recherche (Émérite), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marseilles, France
July–September 1974
Research Associate in the Department of Biochemistry (now part of the Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), University of California, Berkeley, California, USA; with Dr Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.
January–April 1977
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
April 1980
Lecturer, Departamento de Bioquímica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile (sponsored by the Organization of American States)
July 1984
Lecturer, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile (sponsored by UNESCO)
December 1985–September 1986
Professor, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile (sponsored by the Royal Society, UK, and CONICYT, Chile)
August 1986
Lecturer, Departamento de Bioquímica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
August–September 1992
Hermann Niemeyer Professor, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
July–August 1993
Hermann Niemeyer Professor, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
1998–2001
External Examiner (Quantitative Biology, Biometrics) Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK
1976–1980
Member of the Editorial Board of the Biochemical Journal, London, UK
1980–1983
Deputy Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Biochemical Journal, London, UK
1982–present
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Theoretical Biology, London, UK
1983–1989
Secretary, IUB – IUPAC Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature and of the IUB Nomenclature Committee
1984–present
Member of the Editorial-Advisory Board of the FEBS Journal (formerly known as the European Journal of Biochemistry), Cambridge, UK
1993–2001
Editorial Adviser to the Biochemical Journal, London, UK
1995–1999
Member of the Editorial Board of Biological Research, Santiago, Chile
1998–2004
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Biosciences, Bangalore, India
1979–1982
Member of a panel of the International Union of Biochemistry for preparing Recommendations on Symbolism and Terminology in Enzyme Kinetics; Convenor of the panel, 1980–1982; drafter of the report published in Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 224, 732–740 (1983), Biochem. J. 213, 561-571 (1983), and Eur. J. Biochem. 128, 281-291 (1982)
1989–1991
Member, IUB – IUPAC Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature
1990–1996
Director, Portland Press Limited, London, UK
1992–1996
Director, Portland Press Incorporated, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
1995–1996
Chairman, IUBMB – IUPAC Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature
1995–1996
Chairman, Nomenclature Committee of the IUBMB
1999
Member of an Expert Panel of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia to evaluate units of research in chemistry in Portugal.
2002–2005
Member, FEBS Publications Committee
2003
Member of an Expert Panel of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia to evaluate units of research in chemistry in Portugal.
2007–present
Chairman, International Scientific Committee of the Institute of Cellular Metabolism (Instituto del Metabolismo celular), Tenerife, Spain
2009–present
Member, FEBS Publications Committee
Publications are listed on a series of other pages, classified by year of publication or by subject area, as follows:
Information may be found on another page.