David del Álamo received his Ph.D. in developmental biology at the Severo Ochoa Center for Molecular Biology in Madrid and postdoctoral training at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and the Pasteur Institute in Paris. David was scientific editor for The EMBO Journal and EMBO reports, managing editor of Review Commons, and the head of the EMBO Fellowship Programme. David obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in 2017. He collaborates as an editorial consultant for The Journal of Cell Biology and Life Science Alliance.