Dr Nicolás Garrido Puchalt, PhD, MSc, is a biologist working as IVI Foundation Director, graduated in Biology from the University of Valencia in 1997, did part of his pre-doctorate work at the Heinrich-Heine University, at the Gynaecology Department, in Düsseldorf, Germany. Obtained his Doctorate Degree in Endometriosis research from the University of Valencia in 2001, receiving the Extraordinary Prize in 2002, and a Masters’ Degree in Research Methodology: Design and Statistics in Health Sciences from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2009.

Director of the Andrology Laboratory and Sperm Bank at the IVI University Institute in Valencia from 2000 until 2016, from the Teaching Program at IVI since 2004, and afterwards the IVI Learning Center.

External professor at the University of Valencia, heading different research projects funded by the local and state governments. Has participated in over 350 congress communications, has had 80 chapters in books and 150 original articles or reviews in journals published, 140 of them in international journals indexed and with impact factor. Was bestowed the Spanish Fertility Society Award in 2002 and 2004, the Spanish Urology Association Award in 2004, the American Society of Andrology Award (2007, 2010, 2011), and the Salud 2000 Foundation Award in 2010.
He serves as Associate Editor for Fertility and Sterility, and Ad Hoc Reviewer for the Journal of Assisted Reproduction Genetics, Reproductive BioMedicine Online, Human Reproduction, and Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology in the field, among others and as the editor for a textbook on Male Fertility.  His research interests mainly include male infertility, sperm physiology diagnosis and fertility biomarkers, and sperm selection techniques as well as statistical approaches to measure ART success.

Nicolás Garrido Puchalt, Ph.D., M.Sc., is the Director of IVI Foundation, and Director of Research Administration at IVI RMA Global. Dr. Garrido obtained his B.Sc. in Biology from the University of Valencia in 1997, followed by a Post-graduate Research Fellowship at the Department of Gynaecology, Heinrich-Heine University, in Düsseldorf, Germany. He obtained his Doctorate Degree from the University of Valencia in 2001, receiving the Extraordinary Prize in 2002, and a Master’s Degree in Research Methodology: Design and Statistics in Health Sciences from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2009. He served as the Director of the Andrology Laboratory and Sperm Bank at the IVI University Institute in Valencia from 2000 until 2016, and lead the IVI Teaching Program starting in 2004, and afterwards the IVI Learning Center until 2017.

B.Sc. (Biology)
University of Valencia (1997)
Post-graduate FellowshipHeinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany (1998)
Ph.D.
University of Valencia (2001)
M.Sc.
Research Methodology: Design and Statistics in Health Sciences from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)(2009)

Fertility and Sterility Star Reviewer Award
2016
Fertility and Sterility Exemplary Reviewer
2013
Asian Journal of Andrology Top referee
2013
Lalor Foundation Award at the 36th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Andrology.
2011
Reproductive Biomedicine Online Robert G. Edwards Prize Paper Award
2011
Lalor Foundation Award at the 35th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Andrology
2010
Fundación Salud 2000, Prize
2010
Clovis Salgado Prize for the Best Scientific work in Gyecology, Minas Gerais, Brasil
2009
Lalor Foundation Award at th e32nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Andrology
2007
Spanish Fertility Society Award
2004
Reunión Grupo Uro-Andrologico Spanish Urology Association, Marcadores moleculares de fertilidad masculina Congreso: XXII, Best Communication Award
2004
Extraordinary PhD Award, University of Valencia
2002
Spanish Fertility Society Award