Jesús Guinea is a specialist in clinical microbiology and parasitology, and he has focused his scientific activity on the study of invasive fungal infections from different points of view (application of molecular biology for the diagnosis of mycoses and the characterisation of their etiological agents). He obtained his degree in pharmacy (1996) and completed his training in microbiology and parasitology (2002) and achieved his PhD (2005) later on. He received the Young Investigator Award of the European Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (ESCMID) in 2010. Jesús accounts for a relevant scientific production in biomedicine, and is the co-author of 167 scientific publications (123 in the first quartile and 102 out of them in the first decil), with an accumulated impact factor of 718,295 points and a Hirsch index of 35. His scientific production has received 4,595 total cites (4,307 without auto-citation), with a mean of 28.9 cites per item. He has participated in multiple national and international multicentre studies and clinical practice guidelines. He has acted as a reviewer of scientific papers for multiple journals. He has directed three doctoral theses and one more that is currently undergoing. At the moment, he is the Scientific Secretary of EUCAST Antifungal Ssusceptibility Testing Steering Committee.