Albareda trained in
Pharmacy and
Chemistry at the
University of Saragossa, where he worked with Antonio de Gregorio Rocasolano and Antonio Rius Miró, before completing his Phd at the Central University (Madrid). Supported by the
Junta para la Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas, he worked at
Bonn,
Zurich,
Königsberg and
Rothamsted Experimental Station. In 1935 was appointed to the chair of Agriculture in the Instituto Velázquez of Madrid. In 1940, he obtained the chair of
Applied Geology of the Central University. Alongside
José Ibáñez Martín, he founded the
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), servings as its Secretary General for over two decades. He was one of the first members of the
Opus Dei (from 1937) and was a close friend of its founder,
Josemaría Escrivá. He was ordained a priest in 1959. Later, in 1960, he was appointed the first president of the
University of Navarra. He died in 1966. His career included memberships in the Royal Academies of Pharmacy, Sciences and Medicine. In addition, was appointed member of the
Pontifical Academy of Sciences by the Pope. Albareda was doctor honoris causa of the
Catholic University of Louvain and of the
University of Toulouse. ==Notes==