Empar Lurbe is a Full Professor at the University of Valencia, and this position is linked to her role as Head of the Paediatrics Department at the Hospital General Valencia where she carries out all the clinical activity. The scientific and research trajectory of Empar Lurbe has allowed the consolidation of numerous working relationships with research groups of excellence, both at the international and national level. She is currently the vice president of the European Society of Hypertension and Chair of the Working Group on Hypertension in Children and Adolescents in this Society. Prof. Lurbe is also the Chair of the ongoing Cost Action HyperChildNET.