Senior Researcher at VHIR, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (UAB), and Group Leader of CIBERehd. Research focuses on viral variability, metagenomics, and the role of viruses in undiagnosed diseases. He has received continuously secured competitive funded projects since 2016, he has participated in 23 national and international competitive projects, and he has published more than 170 peer-reviewed papers. He has supervised six PhD theses and three more are under development. Member of seven committees at Vall d’Hebron Research Institute, two international ones (HEVnet for hepatitis E and SHARED for hepatitis C), and four national ones, including the national network of laboratories, RELECOV (EU project), the Coordinating Committee of the “Strategic Plan for the tackling of Hepatits C (PEAHC)” Spanish Ministry of Health, the “Alianza para la eliminación de las Hepatitis en España” (AEHVE), which is celebrating 10 years of successful HCV treatment, and his position on the Board of Directors and as Treasurer of the Spanish Society for Virology since 2009. He has participated in the Science by Woman Program, training African women. Awards: PhD extraordinary award (1994); Ciudad de Barcelona (1996); Best Ideas Diario Medico (2015); Premio Ciencia y Tecnologia Diari Regió7-Prensa Ibérica (2020). Member of evaluation of Spanish National Agency for Project Evaluation (ANEP), and editorial member of Scientific Reports (Nature group).