Victor Romanowski
Victor Romanowski (PhD) is a Professor and Principal Investigator at the Institute of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology at the University of La Plata (UNLP) and the National Research Council (CONICET, Argentina). He has been a posdoctoral fellow and visiting researcher in United States and United Kingdom. His research interests include fundamental and applied aspects of the molecular biology of arenaviruses and baculoviruses, as documented in numerous contributions in refereed journals and book chapters. Prof. Romanowski is member of several scientific societies and holds a life membership of the American Society for Virology. He is currently Head of the Department of Biological Sciences at the Faculty of Sciences (UNLP) and also serves on editorial boards and different national and international committees, including the Argentine Society for Virology, the International Committee for the Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), the Executive Board of the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS), the Board of Directors of the Global Virus Network (GVN). [Acknowledgement: Photo taken by friend Ramón Puga Lareo ]