Professor of Embryology and Human Anatomy at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Salamanca. Principal investigator of the research group recognized by the USal: Neuroendocrinology and Obesity. Director of the Neuroendocrinology Laboratory of the Institute of Neurosciences of Castilla y León. Director of the Neuroendocrinology and Obesity Laboratory of IBSAL. Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Salamanca (Spain).