Dr F.J. Arjona Madueño (Francisco)

Francisco J. Arjona Madueño is Knowledge Transfer Officer at Radboud Innovation Science, the Technology Transfer Office of the Faculty of Science, from August 2019. In January 2024, he was promoted to Senior Knowledge Transfer Officer. He focuses on project development and on the valorisation of projects of relevance to the Agri & Food, Water, Climate and Environment sectors. He supports scientists of the Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences (RIBES) and of the Institute for Science in Society (ISIS).
Francisco has a background in Animal Physiology (Ph.D.) and Marine Sciences (M.Sc. and MAst), a multidisciplinary degree that combines environmental science, aquatic (micro)biology, aquaculture, chemistry, oceanography and (aquatic) animal and plant ecology and physiology. His Ph.D. research focused on the optimisation of fish aquaculture. From 2009 until 2019, Francisco worked as (postdoctoral) researcher at the Radboud University (2009-2011) and at the Radboudumc (2011-2019). His projects focused on disclosing the molecular mechanisms of several inherited diseases using the zebrafish as model organism.