Earlier in his career, Jesus Jiménez-Barbero worked at CERMAV-CNRS, Grenoble, 1986 (Predoc); Univ. Zurich (Switzerland), 1987 (Postdoc); National Institute for Medical Research (UK) 1988 (Postdoc; and Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA; 1990-92 (Postdoc and visiting). After working at IQOG-CSIC (1992-2002) as tenured and senior research scientist (1996), he held a CSIC Research Professor position at CIB-CSIC since 2002. He has also held Visiting Professorships at École Normale Supérieure, Paris (2004), Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, (2009), and Univ. Milano-Bicocca (2010-12). From the management perspective, he was the President of the Royal Society of Chemistry of Spain (Jan 2012-Jan 2018), and was Secretary General of the same Institution (2004-11). He has been the Head of the Chemistry Panel of the National Plan for Research of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness between 2009 and 2018, and the representative of Spain in the CMST committee of EU-COST (2012-14). He is ChemPubSoc FEllow (2015) and Member of the European Academy of Sciences (2017). Besides managing his research group, with already 25 PhD students supervised as well as more than 30 postdocs, he was serving as Head of Department of Chem & Phys Biol Dept. at CIB-CSIC from 2009-2014. He was appointed Ikerbasque Research Professor in 2013 and therefore, he moved to the Basque Country to become Scientific Director of CIC bioGUNE (Nov 2014).