Organizational chart
Governing bodies: Governing Board and Presidency.
Executive bodies: Vice-Presidency for Scientific and Technical Research, Vice-Presidency for Institutional Affairs and Organisation, Vice-Presidency for International Affairs and Secretary General and, reporting to them are the Deputy Vice-Presidencies and the Deputy Secretary-Generals respectively.
In addition, the President’s Cabinet is also considered an executive body.
Advisory and support bodies: Scientific Advisory Committee, Ethics Committee, Women and Science Committee, and institutional delegations.
Governing Board
The Governing Board is the highest governance body of the CSIC. It is responsible for general management and planning of its research activity. It is a collegiate body and is chaired by the CSIC Presidency. Its functions include the approval of the annual and multi-annual CSIC action plans; the proposal of the management contract, the preliminary draft of the yearly budget and the annual accounts; the rules of organization and operation, both at a general level and at the level of CSIC centres, institutes and units; the participation of the CSIC in public or private entities; the agreements concerning the creation and termination of CSIC research institutes, centres and units and, finally, the monitoring, supervision and control of the Agency.
COMPOSITION OF THE GOVERNING BOARD OF THE SPANISH NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (CSIC)
(R.D. 51/2018, 2nd February , BOE 07.02.18)
PRESIDENT OF THE GOVERNING BOARD (artº 12.1)
Rosa MENÉNDEZ LÓPEZ
CSIC President
ADVISORS REPRESENTING THE GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES: (art. 12.1.a):
THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH:
Silvia CALZÓN FERNÁNDEZ
Secretary of State for Health
THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION:
Carmen CASTRESANA FERNÁNDEZ
Director General for Research Planning
MINISTRY OF THE PRESIDENCY, PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS AND DEMOCRATIC HISTORY:
Gemma CASTILLO RAMOS
Deputy Director of the Vice-President's Office
THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE:
Juan José HERRERA CAMPA
Director General for Personnel Costs and Public Pensions
THE MINISTRY FOR THE ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHALLENGE:
Jorge Luis MARQUÍNEZ GARCÍA
Director General for Biodiversity, Forests and Desertification
THEMINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD:
Miguel ORDOZGOITI DE LA RICA
Director General for Services
ADVISORS DESIGNATED BY THE MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION FROM AMONG PROFESSIONALS OF RENOWNED PRESTIGE IN THE FIELD OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT (artº 12.1.b)
Montserrat TORNÉ ESCASANY
Geosciences Barcelona - CSIC
Amparo MORALEDA MARTÍNEZ
Independent Advisor of Airbus Group SE, Caixabank, S.A., Sovay, S.A. y Vodafone Plc
Margarita DEL VAL LATORRE
Center for Molecular Biology Severo Ocha - CSIC-UAM
Daniel RAMÓN VIDAL
Biópolis, S.L.
ADVISOR DESIGNATED BY THE UNIVERSITIES BOARD (artº 12.1.e)
José Carlos GÓMEZ VILLAMANDOS
Rector - Universidad de Córdoba
ADVISORS DESIGNATED BY THE MOST REPRESENTATIVE UNIONS (artº 12.1.c)
U G T
Francisca VILCHES DE FRUTOS
Institute of Language, Literature and Anthropology – CSIC
CC OO
Alicia DURÁN CARRERA
Institute of Ceramics and Glass - CSIC
C S I F
Ricardo Pedro MARTÍNEZ MURILLO
Cajal Institute- CSIC
SECRETARY OF THE GOVERNING BOARD (artº 12.3)
Alberto SERENO ÁLVAREZ
CSIC Secretary General
President's Cabinet
Steering committee supporting and advising the Presidency. Responsible for internal and external institutional communication; protocol and support to the governing bodies.
Vice-Presidency for Scientific and Technical Research
Executive body appointed by the Governing Board on the proposal of the Presidency. It depends on the Presidency. This Vice-Presidency holds the activity on strategic planning direction, research coordination and monitoring, knowledge transfer and the recruitment and training of scientific and technical personnel. In addition, the management of both the CSIC scientific and technical infrastructures and the evaluation of the research activity fall under its responsibility.
Vice-Presidency for Institutional Affairs and Organization
Executive body appointed by the Governing Board on the proposal of the Presidency. It depends on the Presidency. This Vice-Presidency directs and coordinates the institutional affairs; the organization of institutes, centres and units; the editorial policy and the scientific-technical information system. In addition, it supervises the activities run to promote scientific culture.
Vice-Presidency for International Affairs
Executive body appointed by the Governing Board on the proposal of the Presidency. It reports to the Presidency. This Vice-Presidency is responsible for the planning and promotion of international relations linked to the research activity. It coordinates the participation of CSIC in European Science committees and organizations, and programmes, coordinates and monitors the participation of the organism in European and international programmes.
Secretary General
Executive body appointed by the Governing Board on the proposal of the Presidency. It is the responsibility of the Secretary General, without prejudice to the superior leadership exercised by the President, to perform the following functions:
- CSIC staff management
- Head of the management of administrative organization
- Head of economic-financial and budgetary management and internal control
- Head of assets management, contracting, construction works and infrastructures
- Head of planning, promotion and management of CSIC IT development
Scientific advisory board
The Scientific advisory board is entrusted with informing and advising the CSIC Presidency and the Governing Board about scientific-technological issues. Specifically, it should prescriptively inform the management contract, the Multi-Annual Action Plans and the creation, modification or ending of CSIC institutes and research units.
It is a permanent body and is chaired by the Presidency. The vice-presidencies and a number of renewed scientists and technologists from the public and private sector, representing different scientific areas sit on the board.
COMPOSITION
PRESIDENT
Rosa MENÉNDEZ LÓPEZ
CSIC President
SECRETARY
Carlos Andrés PRIETO DE CASTRO
Deputy Vice-President for Scientific Programming
MEMBERS
Jesús Eugenio MARCO DE LUCAS
Vice-President for Scientific and Technical Research
- Rosina LÓPEZ-ALONSO FANDIÑO
Vice-President for Institutional Affairs and Organisation
Ángeles GÓMEZ BORREGO
Vice-President of International Affairs
Victoria MORENO ARRIBAS
CSIC Deputy Vice-President for Scientific /Technical Areas
Carlos ABANADES GARCÍA
Research Professor. Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología del Carbono (INCAR-CSIC)
Antonio ALCAMÍ
Research Professor. Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CBM-CSIC-UAM)
Susana ALEMANY DE LA PEÑA
Scientific Researcher. Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas “Alberto Sols” (IIBM-CSIC)
Teresa BUSTO DEL CASTILLO
Founder of ENTALENTA
Gemma FABRIÁS DOMINGO
Research Professor. Instituto de Química Avanzada de Cataluña (IQAC-CSIC)
Joan FONT FABREGAS
Scientific Researcher Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados (IESA-CSIC)
Mercedes GARCÍA-ARENAL RODRÍGUEZ
Research Professor. Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo (ILC-CSIC)
Juan Ramón GONZÁLEZ VELASCO
Full Professor of Chemical Engineering. Universidad del País Vasco (UPV-EHU)
Emma HUERTAS CABILLA
Tenured Scientist. Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía (ICMAN-CSIC)
Luis M. LIZ-MARZÁN
Ikerbasque Professor Scientific Director, CIC biomaGUNE
Ceferino LÓPEZ FERNÁNDEZ
Research Professor. Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM-CSIC)
Consuelo MARTÍNEZ LÓPEZ
Full Professor of Algebra. Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI)
Ángela NIETO TOLEDANO
Research Professor. Instituto de Neurociencias (IN-CSIC-UMH)
Rafael PARDO AVELLANEDA
Director of the Fundación BBVA
Carmen PELÁEZ MARTÍNEZ
Research Professor. Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Alimentación (CIAL-CSIC)
Esteban RODRÍGUEZ SÁNCHEZ
Bio-pharma company BIOFABRI
Alberto SANFELIU CORTÉS
Full Professor. Instituto de Robótica e Informática Industrial (IRII-CSIC-UPC)
Montserrat VILA PLANELLA
Research Professor. Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC)