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The paleoanthropologist José María Bermúdez de Castro will occupy the K chair of the Royal Spanish Academy,

vacant since the death of the Arabist Federico Corriente

on June 16, 2020

Bermúdez de Castro (Madrid, 1952) is known for being one of the researchers who have directed the excavations of the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos), for whose work he received the Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research.

His candidacy for the RAE was the initiative of academics Carmen Iglesias, José Manuel Sánchez Ron and Pedro García Barreno

. No other candidacy came to be considered by the academics.

Bermúdez de Castro studied, received his doctorate and taught in Biological Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has also been a professor at the Higher Council for Scientific Research. He is currently

coordinator of the Paleobiology Program at the National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH)

, honorary professor at University College London and co-vice president of the Atapuerca Foundation. He is a corresponding academic of the Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery of Galicia, and in 2010 he was named

honorary doctorate

by the University of Burgos.

Bermúdez de Castro's research has focused fundamentally on

human evolution

and has been developed in 35 national and international scientific projects, most of which are related to excavations and research in the deposits of the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos) . His greatest contribution to scientific management is related to the creation and direction of the National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH) in Burgos. Among the popular science books that he has published include

El chico de la Gran Dolina

(Drakontos, Planeta),

Children of a lost time

(Ares y Mares, Critique, Planeta),

Atapuerca. Lost on the hill

(Destiny, Planet),

The evolution of talent

and

Explorers

(Debate, Penguin Random House),

Origins: the Universe, Life, Humans

(Drakontos, Planet),

A journey through prehistory

(Akal, Madrid),

Small steps.

Growing from prehistory

(Drakontos, Planet) and

Gods and beggars.

The great odyssey of human evolution

(Drakontos, Planet).

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