Alejandro Buschiazzo is a Biologist (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina), obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 1999 at the Institute Leloir (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Arg). His early biochemistry background was then oriented towards Structural Biology during his postdoc (2000-2003) and then tenured researcher position (2003) at the Dept of Structural Biology & Chemistry in the Pasteur Institute (Paris).

Since 2006 Alejandro holds a double appointment in Paris and as a Group Leader at the Institut Pasteur Montevideo (IPM - Uruguay), where he heads the Laboratory of Molecular & Structural Microbiology. His science is focused on molecular mechanisms of protein function, particularly related to pathogenicity regulation in bacteria.

He is also head of the IPM Protein Crystallography Facility, an open-access research infrastructure that has been instrumental to solving >150 structures of proteins and biological macromolecules since 2007, mostly from South American academic users. From this position he was one of the founding nodes of the Structural Biology network CeBEM (Structural Biology Center in Mercosur), a network that has been active since 2008 to disseminate Structural Biology approaches, organize advanced workshops and improve the utilization of existing Research Infrastructure in South America.

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