Professor of Legal Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine (University of Santiago de Compostela). 

Director of the Galician Foundation of Genomic Medicine (SERGAS, Galician Service of Health), the Spanish National Genotyping Center (CEGEN) and the International Academy of Legal Medicine. President of Kaertor Foundation for early drug discovery. Former director of the Institute of Legal Medicine (now Institute of Forensic Sciences "Luís Concheiro" of the University of Santiago de Compostela) and the International Society for Forensic Genetics. 

Board member and external adviser of national and international institutions (International Penal Court, Red Cross), foundations, societies (MAFS) and regulatory bodies (Pharmacogenomics WG at the EMA, UK Forensic Regulator DNA, DNA ISFG Commission) on forensic science, medical genetics, pharmacogenomics and cancer.

He coordinates the Genomic Medicine research group at the USC, a research unit with more than a hundred people working on medical applications of genomics. He is participating in several EU Projects - and coordinating some of them - including HELIX, BCAST, VISAGE, SNPforID and Pancanrisk of the HORIZON 2020, and EUROFORGEN NoE, GEUVADIS, and CHIBCHA among others in the EU program FP7. He leads the Spanish initiative of the European action 1+Million Genomes and the IMPaCT-GENóMIC infrastructure (the basis of the Spanish strategy of personalized medicine)

Carracedo has published nine books and over 900 papers in SCI journals, including papers in Nature, Nature Genetics, Cell and Science. Highly cited researcher (Thomson&Reuters 2010-2015) in Molecular Biology and Clinical Medicine and leading scientific production in Legal Medicine worldwide (Thomson&Reuters, 2001-2010). His papers have around 6000 citations per year. He has directed more than a hundred Ph.D's.

Editor of Forensic Science International: Genetics, and member of the editorial board of numerous national and international journals on genetics, cancer and forensic science. 

His investigation and trajectory has been vastly awarded: Jaime I Award, Adelaide Medal, Galien Medal, National Award on Genetics, Medal Castelao, Medal of Galicia, Medal to the Police merit, Galician Prize of Research, Fernandez Latorre Award, Prismas Award and various prizes from foundations and scientific societies. Doctor Honoris Causa for several universities in Europe and the Americas.