I have been a member of the Scientific Committee of the AECOSAN (Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality) (2015-2017); and of the Scientific Committee of Sport, Health and NAOS of the General Council of Official Colleges of Graduates in Sports Sciences (COLEF) (2014- current). An active member of the GENUD research group (Growth, Exercise, Nutrition and Development) of the University of Zaragoza and the Government of Aragon. I am part of the IA2 Research Institute and the Center for Biomedical Research Network Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN) of the ISCIII of the Ministry of Science and Innovation. I participated for several years in the Human Performance research group at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (under the supervision of Prof. Calbet JAL), where I trained in Sports Science and obtained a European PhD working on the effects of exercise on body composition during growth (Extraordinary PhD award and best thesis of the year). I spent time as a pre and postdoctoral associate at the Copenhagen Muscle Research Center (CMRC) at the University of Copenhagen (under the supervision of Prof. Saltin B), and at the Preventive Nutrition Unit at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden (under the supervision of Prof. Sjöstrom M).
I have participated in more than 40 national and international projects related to exercise and health, of which I have been the PI (principal investigator) in several of them. I have presented more than 260 communications at international scientific meetings and co-authored 254 scientific publications, of which 195 are international JCR articles (Q1 and Q2>70%). Included among the top 800 Spanish scientific researchers belonging to all areas of knowledge (webometrics.info; May 2020); 73,638 of the 100,000 most cited in the world in all areas and 279 of 22,602 and among the top 10 in Spain in the area of sports science Standford Ranking (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918). Section editor of the World Journal of Pediatrics (Q1 WoS), Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports (Q1 WoS).
Although teaching and quality research remain my main focus, I am very interested in social and business transfer and devoting renewed efforts to implementing exercise programs for older adults in the community of Aragon. I am also a promoter of a know-how agreement and a spin-off idea under development with medium and long-term objectives.