Francisco B. Ortega (Fran) graduated from the Faculty of Sport Sciences at the University of Granada, Spain (1998-2002). He did 2 separate Doctoral Theses in Exercise Physiology at the University of Granada and in Medical Sciences at the Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden). He was 4 years as a postdoc researcher in Sweden and USA (2008-2012). In 2012 Fran returned to the University of Granada as a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the Faculty of Sport Sciences, where he promoted to Associate Professor in 2018 and to Professor in 2021 to date. Moreover, he continues actively affiliated to the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Sports Sciences in Jyväskylä University in Finland.