
Position: President
Center: University of Cádiz
He got his bachelor degree in Sport Sciences and Physical Activity in 2005 at the University of Granada getting the extraordinary final bachelor award of the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (MEC).
Thenceforth, the candidate has been getting the different steps that the Ministry of Science and Innovation considers appropriate to become an independent researcher being the main research line based in the epidemiology of promoting health and preventing cardiometabolic diseases through physical activity and exercise. First, he got the highly competitive national grant (grant FPU, MEC) at Polytechnic University of Madrid and during this four-year period he defended the Master in Human Nutrition with European Mention and also defended his European thesis in the Department of Physiology (Faculty of Medicine, Granada) being awarded with the extraordinary prize of doctoral thesis by the School of Doctorate of Sciences of the Health. His thesis was based in the context of a European funded Project (FP6). He also did several stays at Glasgow University (UK) and Karolinska Institutet (Sweden); as well as short visits to the MRC Epidemiology Unit at University of Cambridge and the University College London (UK), Arnold School of Public Health at University of South Carolina (US) and the Liverpool John Moores University (UK).
In 2011, he started his postdoctoral research period as “Juan de la Cierva” at university of Zaragoza. This allow him to work as an active researcher in several EU funded projects (FP6 and FP7) and to collaborate in another international project from United States and also being PI in a regional project.
In 2014, he was awarded a “Ramon y Cajal” (RyC) tenure track grant at University of Cádiz (UCA) were he is currently IP of a National project (RETOS; I+D+I) and his research interests focus on “Empowering the health through physical activity, exercise and nutrition” with specific projects being centered on the prevention and treatment of obesity and Alzheimer.
He is member of different Scientific Expert Committees on physical activity and health and acts as referee in several well-known research journals and evaluating agencies such as the National Evaluation and Foresight Agency (ANEP).
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- Plaza de TU en Física Aplicada, Universidad de La Rioja
- Carta de la Universidad de Burgos a los investigadores Ramón y Cajal
- Programa para la captación y permanencia de investigadores Ramón y Cajal de la Universidad de Granada
- La Junta Directiva de ANIRC se reúne con el Vicepresidente de Investigación Científica y Técnica del CSIC
- Comunicado oficial de ANIRC en respuesta al Comité de Empresa Valencia-Gandía (UPV)
- Convocatoria 30 Plazas de Profesor Titular – Universidad de Sevilla
- Plaza de Profesor Contratado Doctor en Físicas en la UNED
- Nueva campaña de la Universidad de Cádiz para atraer RyC de otras instituciones
- Plaza de Profesor Contratado Doctor en la Universitat Politècnica de València para RyC con certificación I3
- Tres investigadoras Ramón y Cajal galardonadas con el Premio a la Investigación L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science 2017/2018.
- Convocatoria de plaza de Profesor Titular en la Universidad de Salamanca
- Researchers from the Ramón y Cajal program receive 34{987377834475827bd293c9570e6e34e1fd3bfe2c9e167eb93fc77b9654f442d6} of the total funding in one of the areas
- Investigadores del programa Ramón y Cajal consiguen el 34{987377834475827bd293c9570e6e34e1fd3bfe2c9e167eb93fc77b9654f442d6} de la financiación en una de las áreas
- Suprimarán la tasa de reposición
- Suprimarán la tasa de reposición
- Ramón y Cajal call 2016 is open
- Ramón y Cajal call 2016 is open
- Selected Ramón and Cajal Candidates of the 2015 Call
- Selected Ramón and Cajal Candidates of the 2015 Call
- Report on career perspectives from Ramon y Cajal Researchers in the CSIC from 2007-2014
- Report on career perspectives from Ramon y Cajal Researchers in the CSIC from 2007-2014
- Side-stepping Spanish Bureaucracy is one of Pompeu Fabra's ingredients to success
- Side-stepping Spanish Bureaucracy is one of Pompeu Fabra's ingredients to success
- El CSIC vuelve a sorprender
- The CSIC causes yet another surprise
- List of I3 evaluates has been published
- List of I3 evaluates has been published
- IMPORTANT: Ramón y Cajal *can* be IP in national projects 2016 call
- IMPORTANT: Ramón y Cajal *can* be IP in national projects 2016 call
- Two thirds of all ERC Consolidator Grants in Spain are obtained by RyC fellows
- Two thirds of all ERC Consolidator Grants in Spain are obtained by RyC fellows
- Open letter to Mariano Rajoy by an ex-RyC
- Open letter to Mariano Rajoy by an ex-RyC
- New RyC call published together with possible prolongations
- New RyC call published together with possible prolongations
- 50 {987377834475827bd293c9570e6e34e1fd3bfe2c9e167eb93fc77b9654f442d6} of ERC Starting grants in Spain come from RyC fellows in the 2015 call.
- 50 {987377834475827bd293c9570e6e34e1fd3bfe2c9e167eb93fc77b9654f442d6} of ERC Starting grants in Spain come from RyC fellows in the 2015 call.
- Vacancies at various Spanish research institutes
- Vacancies at various Spanish research institutes
- President of CSIC is asked to appear in congres
- President of CSIC is asked to appear in congres
- Former Directors of CSIC warn that the current situation at the CSIC "is untenable"
- Former Directors of CSIC warn that the current situation at the CSIC "is untenable"
- Internal promotion to full professor becomes possible
- Internal promotion to full professor becomes possible
- State budget for 2016 published
- Presupuestos Generales del Estado para 2016
- New political party wants to stop Stalinistic university bureaucracy
- Ciudadanos pide acabar con “la estalinista burocracia universitaria”
- New regulation allegedly favoring research at the national evaluation agency ANECA
- novedad para ANECA respeto al acceso a los cuerpos docentes universitarios.
- Ramón y Cajal fellow obtains prestigious prize
- Ramón y Cajal fellow obtains prestigious prize
- A bibliometric study reveals high scientific production in the Ramón y Cajal program
- A bibliometric study reveals high scientific production in the Ramón y Cajal program
- La ANIRC se reune con el presidente del CSIC
- Financiación denegado porque el formato del CV no era del todo correcto
- Un análisis de la comisión Europea sobre el sistema Español de I+D+i
- A poll on the Spanish science system
- Una encuesta sobre el sistema Español de ciencia
- El gobierno sube la tasa de reposición al 100 {987377834475827bd293c9570e6e34e1fd3bfe2c9e167eb93fc77b9654f442d6} en los OPIs
- El gobierno sube la tasa de reposición al 100 {987377834475827bd293c9570e6e34e1fd3bfe2c9e167eb93fc77b9654f442d6} en los OPIs
- Various Ramón y Cajal fellows obtain prestigious European funds
- Muchos investigadores Ramón y Cajal obtienen fondos Europeos prestigiosos
- Detailed analysis of the "brain drain, this is not happening"-affair
- Analisis detallado del asunto "brain drain, this is not happening"
- University of Málaga does not keep their promise (in Spanish)
- Universidad Málaga no cumple compromiso
- Spain abandons a 23 million research program
- España abandona un programa de investigación europeo de 23 millones
- Director of the CSIC comments on the "Brain-drain? This is not happening" incident.
- El Presidente del CSIC comenta sus anteriores declaraciones sobre "Brain-drain? This is not happening".
- Publication of assigned travel grants “José Castillejo” for young PhDs, 2014.
- Resolución Estancias de Movilidad en el extranjero “José Castillejo” para jóvenes doctores. 2014
- New Ramón y Cajal call
- Nueva convocatoria de contratos "Ramón y Cajal"
- Sobre gestión política por investigadores
- On management by researchers
- BOE sobre la prorroga de los Contratos RyC que acaban en el 2015, asi como la nueva convocatoria RyC
- Official state document on prolongation of RyC status of contracts expiring in 2015 and new call
- On problems at the CSIC
- Sobre problemas en el CSIC
- On endogamy at Spanish universities
- Sobre la endogamia en las universidades Españolas
- CSIC: "Brain drain? This is not happening!"
- CSIC: "Fuga de cerebros? This is not happening!"
- CSIC pide mas personal
- CSIC asks for more contracts
- Spanish Oceanographic Institute offers a few jobs
- Instituto Español de Oceanografía ofrece plazas
- ANIRC's official stance on hiring RyCs
- La posición oficial de la ANIRC acerca de la estabilización de los RyCs
- Euro Science petition for European Researchers
- Petición de Euro Science para investigadores europeos
- The Presupuesto del estado 2015 has been published
- El Presupuesto del estado 2015 se ha hecho público
- Spanish government raises reposition limit for essential services from 10{987377834475827bd293c9570e6e34e1fd3bfe2c9e167eb93fc77b9654f442d6} to 50 {987377834475827bd293c9570e6e34e1fd3bfe2c9e167eb93fc77b9654f442d6}
- El Gobierno eleva la tasa de sustitución de funcionarios al 50{987377834475827bd293c9570e6e34e1fd3bfe2c9e167eb93fc77b9654f442d6} en áreas esenciales
- Próxima asamblea general de la ANIRC el 31 de octubre de 2014 a las 13:00
- European Committee advices to end the current effective freeze on Ramon y Cajal fellowships through the ‘rate of substitution’ restriction
- Una comisión Europea publica un estudio donde aconsejan no incluir RyCs en la tasa de 10 {987377834475827bd293c9570e6e34e1fd3bfe2c9e167eb93fc77b9654f442d6} de reposición
- Open call for tenured staff research at Spanish Research Public Organisms (OPIs) 2014
- Abierta la convocatoria de acceso libre para científicos titulares de OPIS 2014
- "Spain needs 'major cultural change' to do better in science"
- "España necesita un 'cambio cultural mayor' para mejorar en ciencias"
- University of Cádiz pro-actively reaches out to RyCs
- La universidad de Cadiz busca activamente candidatos para contrato Ramón y Cajal
- Resolución preliminar (propuesta de) de la convocatoria Ramón y Cajal 2013
- Preliminary resolution of the 2013 call for Ramón y Cajal program
- Convocatoria de contratos de investigación en el Hospital Universitario “Puerta del Mar” (HUPM) de CaÌdiz
- Open research positions at the Hospital Universitario “Puerta del Mar” (HUPM) de CaÌdiz
- Open research positions at the Hospital Universitario “Puerta del Mar” (HUPM) de CaÌdiz
- About 250 academics are about to loose their position on formal grounds
- 250 catedráticos y profesores de universidad ven peligrar sus plazas
- Average age of Spanish scientists rises due to cuts
- La ciencia envejece con los recortes
- ERC president: Spanish scientific performance dropped from above-average to under-average due to lack of funding
- ERC presidente: El éxito científico de España ha caído por la falta de financiación
- Spanish government authorizes in total 35 scientific extra contracts for all of Spain
- El govierno central autoriza un total de 35 contratos extra parar cientifocos en todo España
- On endogamy in Spanish universities
- Sobre endogamia en las universidades Españolas
- Opinion essay on the failure of the Spanish higher educational system
- Ensayo de opinión sobre el fracaso del sistema Español de educación superior
- Catholic Universtiy San Antonio of Murcia interested in hiring RyCs
- Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia interesado en contratar RyCs
- Brain drain from the CMRB, allegedly due to lack of funding
- Programa Ramón y Cajal abre una nueva convocatoria el 31 de diciembre 2013
- Ramón y Cajal program opens new call on December 31, 2013
- Publicación del informe de resultados del estudio del programa Ramón y Cajal (por el ministerio)
- The ministry evaluates the Ramón y Cajal program and publishes their findings
- ¿Una posible prórroga para los contratos Ramón y Cajal firmados en 2008 y 2009?
- A possible extension for the Ramón y Cajal contracts signed in 2008 and 2009?
- El mejor físico europeo joven se queda sin beca en España
- 'Regalando' fondos científicos a Alemania: "Que investiguen otros"
- El Congreso incorpora a los Presupuestos la posibilidad de contratación indefinida a doctores universitarios
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