Graduated in biochemistry, he completed his doctorate at the Institute of Neurosciences of Alicante. In addition to a postdoctoral stay at Harvard University in the USA, he has conducted short-term research at prestigious international centers such as the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg (Germany), the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC) in Strasbourg (France), and the University of Santa Cruz in California (USA). He directs a research group at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (Barcelona, Spain), and is an adjunct professor at the Department of Genetics at the University of Barcelona. In recent years he has specialized in gene editing topics (being co-inventor on two patents of Cas9 enzymes discovered in the deep ocean) and in animal models of human diseases. He has more than 40 international publications, including highly prestigious magazines such as Nature Communications, or from the field of genetics as Genetics, Plos Genetics or Human Molecular Genetics.
In the educational field, doctor Julián Cerón directs the podcast Raticos de Ciencia de conversaciones con científicas y científicos, which to date has 52 episodes and about 160 thousand listeners on different platforms such as Spotify, Ivoox or Amazon Music. In addition, he has given scientific dissemination talks at events, institutions and educational centers, being especially recognized for the topic of gene editing by CRISPR, which is of interest not only from the scientific point of view, but also from the ethical and thought perspective. He has participated in various scientific dissemination activities such as Pint of Science, the Escolab (Barcelona City Council) or Periplo por la Ciencia. He published the book Raticos de coronavirus, in Spanish and in English, where he explains the science of covid-19 using football analogies.
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