Lirios Dueñas is an associate professor at the Physiotherapy Faculty at the University of Valencia in Spain. She holds a PhD, and her main areas of research interest are the biomechanics of sports, ageing processes, and musculoskeletal disorders related to chronic pain. Professor Dueñas has been a professor for more than 15 years, combining teaching and research with clinical work in physiotherapy; she has spent more than 10 years working at and managing a clinic of general physiotherapy and leading the center of sportsmen and sportswomen of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Regarding scientific production, she has 25 international scientific publications (JCR), 19 projects (five of them from the 5th and 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission) and has participated in more than 30 congresses. She has led numerous courses, conferences, and postgraduate courses on health prevention and promotion. Her main subject in the physiotherapy degree is 'Physiotherapy in Primary Care', where different aspects aiming to promote health in different populations are addressed.