Diego graduated with a BSc in Biochemistry from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2017 and then moves to Paris thanks to a fellowship by the Amgen Scholars Foundation at Institut Pasteur. Later, he completed the MSc in Leading International Vaccinology Education (LIVE) with an Erasmus+ Mundus scholarship awarded by the European Commission. During the master he studies in the University of Barcelona, Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), University of Antwerp (Belgium), University of Lyon, and University of Saint-Étienne (France), where he is trained in vaccine science, public health, communication, immunology, infectiology, epidemiology and European languages. He performs his master thesis at CEA/IDMIT (Fontenay-aux-Roses, France) studying the immune responses to yellow fever infection and vaccination in non-human primates. Currently he is conducting his PhD project at Centro Nacional De Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC, Madrid) in Francisco Sánchez-Madrid’s group thanks to an INPhINIT Retaining fellowship by Fundación "la Caixa", where he is interested in the effects of T cell immune contacts on innate immunty.