Francisco Navarro received his PhD in Biology (1996) from the University of Seville. For his doctoral thesis, he conducted biochemical and molecular studies of nitrogen assimilation pathways in cyanobacteria. He made two postdoctoral stays: at the Jacques Monod Institute (Paris, France), where he focused on transcriptional regulation and cell division in bacteria, and later at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (CEA-Saclay, France), where he began his research career in the field of transcription machinery (RNA polymerases) and genetics of transcription in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In 2003, he received the position of “profesor titular” at the University of Jaén, and since 2018, he has been “catedrático” of Genetics at the same university. Between 2015–2019, he was “Director de los Servicios Centrales de Apoyo a la Investigación” at the University of Jaén. Since 2003, he has led a research group mainly focused on the study of gene expression at the transcriptional level. His research addresses the role of RNA polymerases (RNA pols) and some of their associated factors, as well as the impact that the biogenesis of RNA pols and the prefoldin-like Bud27 have on the activity of RNA pols and on the coordination with the TOR pathway, using the experimental model Saccharomyces cerevisiae.