Key words / short description of my career interests and research lines: Cardiovascular diseases, mechanism of arterial hypertension, isquemic heart disease, incidence, factors and cardiovascular risk functions, genetics, cardiovascular epidemiology and population genetics
I serve on the editorial board or review manuscripts for outstanding international journals (e.g., JACC, Circulation, IJE, EHJ, Heart, REC, ERJ, JECH, JCVR). I was a reviewer for the Research Framework Programmes V & VI, and for ERC Starting Grants in 2012-2020. I am an expert evaluation consultant for the French INSERM, for the Italian Departamento di Epidemiologia de la Regione del Lazio in Rome, and have served on the evaluating board for 12 dissertations and doctoral theses in Europe. I was a member of the Evaluation Board for Cardiovascular Research Projects of Spain’s agency for health research funding, Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria FIS 1998-2013, the Spanish CIBER structures, 2010 to date, the Spanish National Agency for Scientific Evaluation (ANEP) 2000 to date, and the Spanish Society of Cardiology, among others. I am an expert consultant for the Spanish Ministry of Health, and for the Catalan Agency for Health Quality Assessment.