Montserrat Aguadé

Montserrat Aguadé Porres (Barcelona, Spain; 1949) is a professor emeritus of genetics at University of Barcelona and member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.

Aguadé is internationally recognized for her research in the fields of evolution and population genetics, and together with Richard R. Hudson and Martin Kreitman, she co-developed the HKA test, a statistical test used in genetics to evaluate the predictions of the neutral theory of molecular evolution.

Aguadé has published around 100 scientific articles in prestigious journals in the field of experimental sciences, and she has been awarded the National Genetics Award from the Spanish Society of Genetics. Prof. Aguadé has been recognized as a distinguished researcher by the Generalitat de Catalunya and, in 2022, she was awarded the Gold Medal for Scientific Merit by the City Council of Barcelona.

Aguadé has been the president of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution and the president of the Spanish Society of Genetics, as well as, a member of the direction committee of the Catalan Society of Biology from the Institut de Estudis Catalans.