Francisco Mora is Doctor of Medicine (1972, University of Granada, Spain) and Doctor of Philosophy (Neuroscience) (1977, University of Oxford, England). Currently he is Professor of Human Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University Complutense of Madrid and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics (School of Medicine. University of Iowa, USA).
He is the author of more than 300 scientific articles and abstracts and has written or edited 35 books, among them THE HOT BRAIN, MIT Press. USA 2000, DICCIONARIO DE NEUROCIENCIA (together with A.M. Sanguinetti). Alianza. Madrid 2004 and EL RELOJ DE LA SABIDURIA Alianza. Madrid. 2005.
Professor Mora has supervised 38 Master and Doctoral Thesis.
Professor Mora is past-President of the Spanish Physiological Society, former Chairman of the Department of Physiology (Faculty of Medicine, University Complutense of Madrid) and corresponding Member of the Royal National Academy of Medicine He has received several Awards among them a Wolfson College Award, University of Oxford (England), the Pfizer (National) Award on "Aging" and the Helen C. Levitt Professorship Award of the University of Iowa, USA (2004).
His field of research is related to the Neurobiological Basis of Aging.