Dr. Juan Nogales is the head of System Biotechnology Group at Centro Nacional de Biotecnología-CSIC in Madrid (Spain). He studied Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Extremadura and received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry focused on microbial biodegradation from the University Complutense of Madrid. During his postdoct he delved into systems biology approaches towards whole understanding of microbial metabolism at University of Iceland (Iceland) and University of California, San Diego (USA) . His current research spans multidisciplinary approaches, including Systems and Synthetic Biology, whose common goal is the whole understanding of microbial living systems, from the molecular characterization of their fundamental components to their systems properties. Moving forward from cells to microbial communities, his group is developing new protocols for synthetic microbial ecosystems designing and engineering. Currently he is involved in several H2020 projects around these topics and he is the coordinator of SynBio4Flav, a cutting-edge endeavor towards the cost-efective production of functionalized flavonoids in the context of synthetic microbial consortia. He is part of CSIC IBISBA core and funder member of SusPlast Platform, an interdisciplinary platform for Sustainable Plastic towards a Circular Economy. He is also co-founder of Darwin Bioprospecting Excellence, a startup focus on microbial bioprospection and metagenomics analysis.