Raúl Estevez is Full Professor at the University of Barcelona, member of the board of directors of the Institute of Neurosciences, member of IDIBELL, and unit leader at the CIBERER (Spanish center for rare diseases). Raúl worked as a postdoc at the Zentrum Molekulare Neurobiologie Hamburg (ZMNH, Hamburg, Germany) funded by an EMBO and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowships, and continued as a Ramón y Cajal researcher and Associate Professor. He studied the molecular basis of rare brain diseases and channelopathies, with a focus on regulatory aspects of chloride channels. From 2003, Raúl has been studying the molecular basis of the rare disease Megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts.
