Alfonso Blanco, Ph.D.
Dr. Alfonso Blanco is the Scientific Director of the Conway Core Facilities, which provides technical, educational and scientific support to a very large variety of groups, institutions and private companies across Ireland. Alfonso obtained his B.Sc. in Biology in 1995 from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. Biology from the Universidade de Vigo, Spain, in 1997 and 2003 respectively.
He joined the UCD – Core Technology Unit of the UCD – Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research in May 2004 in order to develop the Flow Cytometry Core Technology (FCCT) and research projects specific to this technology. Alfonso is involved in many educational and training programs, such as the International Summer Schools organized by the European Society of Clinical Cytometry Analysis (ESCCA). During the 7th European Clinical Cytometry Course in September 2011, he has been involved in the organization of the first on-line cell sorting training course using remote sites and he is one of the leaders of an international educational initiative for eLearning.
In 2011, Dr. Blanco has been incorporated as one of the board members of the ESCCA Website & Communication Committee. In 2012 Alfonso was elected as one of the councilor of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC) and is working as one of the members of the ISAC Educational Task Force and Programming Committee of CYTO. Alfonso is finalist in two categories of the : and .