Paleontology curator from 1973 to 2010 from the Museu de Geologia de Barcelona.
From 1975 to 1978, he was in charge of the general remodelation of the Paleontology Room of the Museum.
From 1989, when the scientific magazine called Treballs del Museu de Geologia de Barcelona was created, to 2008, he worked as the editorial assistant.
In 1991, he was a member of the organizing commitee of the state meeting 'Seminario sobre gestión informatizada de colecciones paleontológicas españolas', organized by the Museu de Geologia de Barcelona.
In 1992, he obtained the PhD in Geological Sciences by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, with the thesis entitled Catálogo razonado de los vertebrados fósiles de España del Museo de Geología de Barcelona (1882-1982). Historia de la institución. In October of 1992, he was the treasurer of the VIII Jornadas de Paleontología de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología (SEP), organized by the Museu de Geologia de Barcelona.
Specialized in documentation of the scientific patrimony and in the Natural Science history, he was the author of multiple monographic publications based on the paleontological collection of the Museum:
In 2010, he donated his own paleontological collection to the Museum. Previously, this collection had been donated to the Museu de Geologia in 1981. It was registered, documented and computerized in 2005. The Gómez-Alba collection consists on 4,783 fossil specimens and 25 lots, representing about 1,757 species.
From 2008, his research work was mainly based on the following topics:
His personal archive, which was almost unpublished, was donated to the museum by his daughters who just followed the will of their father.
Graduated in Geological Sciences by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Between 1975 and 1977, he worked as a teaching assistant of Geology in the Universitat de Barcelona.
In 1978 he was the scientific coordinator and the presenter of the First week of Geological Cinema of Barcelona, held in the Palau de Congressos of Montjuïc.
In 1979 collaborated in the writing of the Llibre blanc dels Museus de Barcelona, edited by the Serveis de Cultura de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona and the Llibre blanc dels Museus de Catalunya, edited by the Cultural Department of the Generalitat of Catalonia.
From May to July of 1981, he took the ‘Curs de motlles, reproduccions i tècniques aplicades de restauració’, which consisted of 80 teaching hours in the Archeological Museum of Catalonia.
In 1988, he published the monograph called Guía de campo de los fósiles de España y de Europa.
From 1984 to 1986, he was a member of the Consell Assessor de Museus de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
He was one of the founder members of the Sociedad Española de Paleontología (SEP).
In 1988, he was part of the Editor Committee of the Documentation normative of the Natural History Collections, constituted by the Servei de Museus de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
In 1994, he collaborated with the Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca de la Generalitat de Catalunya, and the following year (1995), he became one of the members of the Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica. He also collaborated with the Jardín Botánico de Córdoba, starting in 1998, and with the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Perpignan (France), beginning this collaboration in 2007. As an organizer, author and adviser, he took part also, from 1978, in almost twenty scientific exhibitions. He was a scientific adviser for the conservation and management of the paleontological patrimony of the Centro de Interpretación Paleontológica de Huelva (Lepe, Huelva), of the Institut de Paleontologia de Sabadell (Barcelona), of the Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava (Vitoria), of the Museo de Geología of the Universidad de Sevilla, of the Museo Paleobotánico del Jardín Botánico de Córdoba, of the Museu de Ciències Naturals de València and the Museu Municipal d’Igualada (Barcelona).
He supervised two doctoral thesis, and he gave some seminars in different scientific institutions. During the 2007-2008 school year, he was one of the teachers of the Màster Oficial Inter universitari de Paleontologia (UB, UAB, ICP).
Between 1976 and 2010, he assisted in 28 congresses and national and Iberian meetings of Paleontology, where he spread his works about patrimonial collections of Paleontology. He collaborated with some publishers from Barcelona, revising translations of monographs about Paleontological topics from European authors.
A person with curiosity and artistic talent, as a poet he founded some literary magazines, like Ciretea or Hiperión. Between the books he wrote there are Tientos, El infante inapetente, El huevo frito and Poesía incompleta. Music was another of his passions; as a musician and singer, he dedicated his musical career to traditional, Sephardic and medieval music. He published the following records: Està lloviendo, La boda, La ciudad, Trece canciones, La llama y la sombra: el Camino de Santiago y el Romancero español.
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