Alejandro de Carlos is a Lecturer in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Vigo in Spain. After graduating in Biology from the Universidad de Navarra in 1986, he obtained his PhD in Molecular Biology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 1990. His research has covered different facets of biology, such as virology, cancer, materials science and marine organisms. Currently, his efforts are focused on molecular taxonomy of marine organisms and on environmental DNA