I started my research career in 2002 with my incorporation to the Department of Physiology of the Faculty of Medicine of the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2004 I was awarded with a FPU grant from the Ministry of Education and Science, which satisfied my strong desire to initiate my Doctoral Thesis in the field of inflammatory cachexia under the direction of Drs. López-Calderón and Villanúa. During my predoctoral period. I participated in 10 research projects, and I published 16 scientific articles (8 of them as first author) in international journals of recognized prestige, most of them in the first quartile of their area. In 2006 I did a 4-month stay in the "Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences" of the John Moores University of Liverpool (UK). In 2007, I presented my PhD dissertation entitled "Role of the GH-IGF-I, TNFα and COX-2 in cachexia induced by experimental arthritis". The Thesis was qualified with Outstanding Cum Laude and obtained the European Doctorate Mention and the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. In 2008, I joined the Pediatrics Department of the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Madrid with a post-doctoral fellowship “Juan de la Cierva” in the group of Dr. Jesus Argente, which belongs to the CIBER of Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition. During my stay in this group, my interest was focused on the study of leptin and ghrelin in metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes. I participated in 6 research projects and published 14 scientific articles in journals with a high impact index, 7 of them as first author. Note that one of the papers published with this group was accepted in the prestigious “Journal of Clinical Investigation” (IF= 13,069). In 2011 I received the "Young Investigator Award in Basic Sciences" from the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO). This scientific excellence award was granted for my research in the field of modifications of leptin levels during the perinatal period. In 2010, I gained a position as Assistant Professor at the Physiology Department of the School of Medicine (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain). Within this Department, I started my teaching career and established my own line of research focused on the study of metabolic and cardiovascular alterations associated with obesity and aging and its possible treatment/prevention through nutraceutical products and functional foods. Since then, I have participated in 9 competitive research (2 as PI) and in 3 research contracts (in all of them as PI), and I have published 21 in international journals, most of them in the first quartile of their area. In addition, because of my collaboration with the company Pharmactive Biotech Products, I am among the group of inventors of a patent. Since 2018, I am also a member of the Fluorescence Imaging Group (FIG) lead by Dr. Daniel Jaque from the Faculty of Science (UAM). My role in this group is to collaborate in the search for new applications of nanoparticles for the diagnosis/treatment of cardiometabolic diseases. In addition, since my incorporation to the Physiology Department (UAM), I have directed 2 Doctoral Theses, 7 TFMs and 14 TFGs, and I have done three postdoctoral stays, one at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge (Louisiana, USA) in 2012, another one at the Langone Medical Center of the New York University in 2013 and another one in the School of Biomedical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2015.