Jesús Rodríguez Baño

Jesús Rodríguez Baño is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Seville, Head of the Infectious Diseases Department at the Virgen Macarena University Hospital in Seville, and Principal Investigator of the Clinical Research Group on Infectious Diseases at the Institute of Biomedicine of Seville. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Clinical Microbiology and Infection.

He has served as President of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), a member of the Scientific Committee of the Joint Programme Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPI-AMR) of the European Union, and is a consultant for the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) on antimicrobial resistance.

His research focuses on the epidemiological and clinical aspects, as well as the treatment, of infections caused by resistant bacteria and the use of antimicrobials. He has been and continues to be the principal investigator of several national and European research projects, with 500 publications in scientific journals, a Web of Science H-index of 73, and recognition as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2023 and 2024.