Overview

• The selection committee chaired by Secretary of State Juan Cruz Cigudosa chose Rabadán unanimously, and the CNIO Patronato approved the appointment.
• An international competition opened on April 10 evaluated 25 candidates with interviews, including nine researchers based in the United States.
• Officials cited a strategic project focused on digital and computational technologies, data science and artificial intelligence to boost excellence, innovation transfer and multidisciplinary convergence.
• Rabadán is a Columbia University professor who directs the Program of Mathematical Genomics, previously worked at the IAS and CERN, and has authored more than 200 peer‑reviewed papers.
• CNIO also reported the appointment of José Manuel Bernabé as managing director, marking a leadership reset following January’s dismissals of María Blasco and Juan Arroyo.